What are the best films about the 50s? I know American Graffiti is set in '62, but the early 60s were still that cultural bleed over from the 50s and so isn't that different.
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What are the best films about the 50s?
The Last Picture Show
Which one? Theatrical or director's cut?
Director’s cut is what I watched
Cool Hand Luke
Badlands
The Tree of Life
Ed Wood
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LPS is more about a dead town stuck in the 40s, it's about the dying west
Mid 60s Oklahoma is basically the 50s
I find it funny the actor playing the main character is basically the only one who had almost no career after this movie lol.
he had the blackface movie
>lol
First off fricking have a nice day for using lol to finish a sentence you midwit zoomer gay. Second, the dude has been working ever since. He currently has over 200 credits on IMDb. Obviously Tom Cruise got massive. Just because someone isn’t Tom cruise levels of famous doesn’t make them a failure. The frick have you been doing with your life that makes you so great? Besides texting and talking like a brain dead wienersucker?
He man if you're that guy I just want to let you know that Outsiders was fricking phenomenal great job.
We read/watched this in middle school. I should give it a rewatch I don’t remember anything except pony boy is hiding out in a cabin or something at some point
Coolie High. It's also early 60s but I think that's what you're looking for. Mid 50s to early 60s is the doo wop era.
based RWaC posters
you mean films not made in the 50s which are about the 50s or do you include films made in the 50s?
The former, but I don't mind the latter. I just want to watch that capture the zeitgeist of the time. Could be made during or after.
Rebel Without a Cause
north by northwest
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>American Graffiti is set in '62
it's purposely set in 62 to represent the last of america before it was ruined the next year starting with JFK's assassination
crazy how lucas knew in 1973 that the 50s/early 60s were already a special bygone time that would never happen again. if we made a movie set in 2013 today there wouldn't be nearly as much content or nostalgia
Interesting parallels between the assassination and 9/11 both changing everything for the worse.
It wasn’t just Lucas.
Don Mclean’s song American Pie came out in 1971 and covers a lot of the same themes.
Interestingly enough they both mention Buddy Holly.
>crazy how lucas knew in 1973 that the 50s/early 60s were already a special bygone time
It's called nostalgia and people feel that way but every era they grew up in
Go drink some more fluoride.
>Wah, you pointed out how moronic my post is. have a nice day.
Notice how you don't address my point because you know I'm right and don't even bother.
Every generation has their "good times and then trauma" happens that shift the culture from optimistic to pessimistic. The 50s and JFK's assassination. The 60s and Vietnam. The 70s and Watergate. The 80s and the AIDS endemic. The 90s and 9/11. The 2000s and the Great Recession. The 2010s and COVID. That's how it's been. People have nostalgia for when they were young before bad shit happens. That's not unique to the 50s. You have to be a disingenuous homosexual pushing a political view to pretend the same idealizing nostalgia of the 50s wasn't applied to the 80s or 90s or even the 70s and 60s. We have a frick ton of films set in the 80s with 80s nostalgia and I guarantee the same homosexuals like you would call that the last of the "good times." When you're an old boomer yourself, You're going to see movies and shows about how wholesome the 2000s and the 2010s were. That's how nostalgia works. That's how it always worked.
Why does bad stuff keep happening.
This is moronic I hate it.
>the past is always worse than the present
Frick off WEF shill
A lot of people would be nostalgic for 2013 as the moment before Trump, or Brexit, or a lot of other things around the world. It was also the year after Lucas sold Star Wars, paving the way for its absolute destruction soon after.