>
>>>you can't make a movie about a generation of people using
>>the
>>>backdrop of a totally different generation.
>>
>>says who?
>>
>
>
>says the definition of Movie genres. I couldn't make a movie
>in downtown Chicago tomorrow morning and call it a Western,
>now could I?
>
>
>The setting itself, is a character, potna.


dude, stop... writers/filmakers throughout time have used historical settings to focus on modern society.

>>>a Generation X film is made with people and settings that
>>>would have still been ( for lack of a better term)
>>'relevant'
>>>in the 90's. like "Singles" or some other shit like that.
>>
>>
>>weak analysis man... really weak. I'm not saying that Dazed
>>didn't tap into the socio cultural atmosphere that
>surrounded
>>the 70s... but the shit also had a foot in the 90s
>
>
>but you can't call a film set in the 70's a Gen X film. Unless
>the characters in that film were toddlers or pre-teens. and
>you'd STILL have to have some 80's shit in there to call it a
>'coming-of-age' film. There's NO way you could get it done if
>it was set in the 70's.


That 70s Show disagrees with you.... set in the 70s, yet dealt with alot of modern day shit.

>>there was nothing uniquely 70s about that movie... with
>>slight changes it could have been made about the 80s 90s and
>>2000s because it just tapped into timeless youthful angst.
>
>
>soundtrack and costumes, notwithstanding, I assume?

>1. Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
>2. Slow Ride - Foghat
>3. School's Out - Alice Cooper
>4. Jim Dandy - Black Oak Arkansas
>5. Tush - ZZ Top
>6. Love Hurts - Nazareth
>7. Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
>8. Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
>9. Fox On The Run - Sweet
>10. Low Rider - War
>11. Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
>12. Highway Star - Deep Purple
>13. Rock And Roll All Night - Kiss
>14. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
>
>
>dude, ALL that shit was recorded in the 1970's. When most Gen
>X'ers were kids, if not babies. Are you seriously trying to
>say that Ted Nugent and Deep Purple were the soundtrack to the
>Generation X movement? If so we might as well do away with
>1989-2000.
>
>Where's the Grunge? Where's the Hip-Hop? Where's the Dance
>music?
>
>
>there's NOTHING remotely Gen X about that soundtrack.
>NOTHING.


the fuck? dude... change the music, change some cultural refrences and the movie coulda been set in ANY fucking decade