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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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Originally posted by MistaMista Tom Hagen:
00's - The Godfather Pt II Hey MistaMista, cool thread! was wondering, what in this movie represents the 00's ?
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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Interesting question.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with any of your choices, but I thought I'd throw these in there for consideration:
1970's: Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Good Morning Viet Nam, Annie Hall
1960's: Rosemary's Baby, Midnight Cowboy, Manchurian Candidate (original), Fail Safe, Seven Days In May, Ocean's Eleven (original), Tin Men, Mean Streets
I'd try and go with a picture made to depict a diferent era than the one that it was made in, though.
Any good movie made in the decade that it's supposed to take place in is gonna do a fairly good job of depicting that decade (see my 1960's list above, except for the last two).
1950's: L.A. Confidential, Diner
1940's: Saving Private Ryan
1920's: Road to Perdition
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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Here's my bit, Forrest Gump does a great job for most of these.
2000s: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (?)
90s: American Beauty
80s: The Breakfast Club
70s: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Full Metal Jacket
60s: Easy Rider, Woodstock(the Movie), Dr. Strangelove, Don't Look Back
50s: Reefer Madness, On The Road(book), The Dharma Bums(book)
40s: Casablanca, The Great Dictator
20s-30s: Citizen Kane
Great topic! Some of these might not represent EXACTLY that decade but the feeling and emotion in the movie is what is important.
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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Originally posted by Fame: [quote]Originally posted by MistaMista Tom Hagen: [b]
00's - The Godfather Pt II Hey MistaMista, cool thread! was wondering, what in this movie represents the 00's ? [/b][/quote]If I'm not mistaken, the scenes in Sicily where Vito is 9 or 11 years old take place somewhere before 1910. In case youre confused, the OO's I'm referring to are from 1900 - 1909. Did I get the year wrong or something?
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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I added a few non-decade picks.
20's - Once Upon a Time in America, The Roaring Twenties 30's - Schindler's List 40's - The Godfather, Bob The Gambler, Saving Private Ryan (at least crime-wise) 60's - Five Easy Pieces, The French Connection, American Graffiti 70's - Taxi Driver 80's - Scarface (crime-wise) 90's - American Beauty, The Insider Isolation of Fame/wealth - Citizen Kane, Last Days High School - Elephant The West - The Wild Bunch Marriage - A Woman Under the Influence
By the way MistaMista Tom Hagen, Citizen Kane covers decades from before the 1900's to his death somewhere around the 30's-50's.
More to come later.
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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It's difficult to choose only one film per decade, because many times a decade can have more than one "culture" that can be considered representative.
Anyway, a couple of my choices:
60's: Celebration at Big Sur, Monterey Pop, Alice's Restaurant.
70's: Mean Streets, Saturday Night Fever.
Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinions.
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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Originally posted by Fame: Thanx man, silly me I thought you meant 2000's, 00 - but now that I think about it, what should we really use to distinguish the two? mmm... I tried to avoid this confusion by saying decades of the 20th century. I applaud you for thinking ahead though. As far as the films, seeing all the lists, I'd conclude that perhaps we should make two separate lists; one consisting of films released within the decade and one consisting of films release outside of the given years. 90's - American Beauty 80's - Thief 70's - Taxi Driver 60's - The Graduate 50's - Vertigo 40's - 30's - 20's - 10's - never seen any 00's - never seen any I'll edit the rest in once I come up with them. 90's - Jarhead 80's - Donnie Darko 70's - Boogie Nights 60's - Forrest Gump 50's - The Godfather Pt II 40's - The Godfather 30's - Chinatown 20's - Miller's Crossing 10's - Titanic 00's - The Godfather Pt II
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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1900-1910-Willoughby episode of the Twilight Zone. Teens-All Quiet On The Western Front. 20's-Little Caesar 30's-Grapes of Wrath 40's-The Godfather 50's-The Blackboard Jungle 60's-Guide to the Married Man 70's-Dog Day Afternoon 80's-Gotti 90's-Seinfeld 2000 and since-The Sopranos
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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While period films can often go to some length in capturing the time and setting they depict, I find it far more truthful and insightful to watch the contemporary films of those years. I'll post a list later. So, for the nineteen-teens, I wouldn't put Titanic, personally, though have no problem with those who do. If anything, Titanic could sum up the nineties more relevantly: a box-office smasher, Oscar galore and breakthrough film, really, for CGI epics made since. Is that not a fairer reflection of the film's era than of the film content's era?
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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How about Paths of Glory for the teens?
I also think that A Night to Remember (also about the Titanic), with it's B & W cinematography and almost documentary style, captured the feel of that decade better than the film Titanic.
Also, if you want to talk about the "feel" of the late 50's and early 60's, you can't go too far wrong with some of those Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedies, like Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back.
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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I've thought about this several times before. Although, instead of wrapping the decade up in general, I try to think up the movies that "define a generation" or, whatever... So:
90s - Fight Club 80s - Donnie Darko 70s - Taxi Driver 60s - The Graduate 50s - Rebel Without a Cause
And then, I basically have trouble with the other five generational-decade films...
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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90's - Singles 80's - Wall Street 70's - Almost Famous 60's - American Grafitti 50's - Stand By me 40's - A Christmas Story 30's - Radio Days 20's - Once Upon a time in America 10's - Eight men Out 00's - Ragtime
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Re: Decade Representations in Film
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Originally posted by Daigo Mick Friend: 90's - Singles I've been getting into grunge recently, and I now just feel like this was some attempt to cash in on the genre... Kind of like the first step towards ultimate capitalism on the genre and scene (let's not forget the ad campaigne's for designer flannel back around the time of Cobain's death...). Although, if memory serves, the soundtrack was pretty cool.
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