American Graffiti 1973
Jun 29, 2021 3:34:17 GMT
twothousandonemark and Dramatic Look Gopher like this
Post by drystyx on Jun 29, 2021 3:34:17 GMT
The film certainly had a good deal of "atmosphere'. For me, the atmosphere was from the music and the soundtrack, not by the cars. Like most Americans, I see too many cars in real life to be excited by cars in a movie.
I was born in 1956, so this was a generation just before me. In fact, just before me, as 1955 was about the cut off point, although this group would mostly be kids born around 1945 I believe.
Was it romanticizing a way of life that didn't exist? Or was this the way it was? Modesto, California was a city setting, I believe. The way a city in California would be as opposed to one in New York.
How true to life was this? True enough for Modesto 1962, because it's pretty much first hand in its account, but was this indicative of the U.S. in 1962? Probably. I think the big changes came in the late sixties.
In modern times, music and information, noise and misinformation, news and gossip, is so immediate, that it's going to be hard for people born after 1990 to really put a timeline on life style, and one can't believe what one hears from alleged experts. It's enough to know that Wolfman Jack was a local hero for California, but how far did his heroism spread? It didn't go past the Mississippi River for sure, but the film certainly made him a hero across the country.
It is a movie about "atmosphere", and I think it was a good one. It made us feel like we wanted to be there somewhere in the background, watching the action, hearing the music, and so I rate it well at 8/10.
I was born in 1956, so this was a generation just before me. In fact, just before me, as 1955 was about the cut off point, although this group would mostly be kids born around 1945 I believe.
Was it romanticizing a way of life that didn't exist? Or was this the way it was? Modesto, California was a city setting, I believe. The way a city in California would be as opposed to one in New York.
How true to life was this? True enough for Modesto 1962, because it's pretty much first hand in its account, but was this indicative of the U.S. in 1962? Probably. I think the big changes came in the late sixties.
In modern times, music and information, noise and misinformation, news and gossip, is so immediate, that it's going to be hard for people born after 1990 to really put a timeline on life style, and one can't believe what one hears from alleged experts. It's enough to know that Wolfman Jack was a local hero for California, but how far did his heroism spread? It didn't go past the Mississippi River for sure, but the film certainly made him a hero across the country.
It is a movie about "atmosphere", and I think it was a good one. It made us feel like we wanted to be there somewhere in the background, watching the action, hearing the music, and so I rate it well at 8/10.