American Grafitti is so fucking great. Makes me nostalgic for a time I wasn't alive in.
>the last summer of the 50s Before Dallas, before Vietman, before Reaganomics and AIDS. The twilight of the age of innocence. Funny and charming. You can tell Lucas cared more about the aesthetics, mood and cool cars, but the script and actors gave it warmth.
You know it. I remember the time. I grew up in the 80s watching 70s nostalgia of the 50s. Ah, the memories!
Jeremiah Evans
What point is this sarcasm making?
Juan Stewart
Man that really takes me back back to an era I wasn't even fucking there to witness. Ah, the memories!
Angel Smith
pointless and unfunny thing to pick up on.
Bentley Morris
That OP is kinda dumb for being nostalgic for a fictional rendition of a time being idealized for the sake of entertainment
Charles Flores
sad to think that lucas was basically three for three in the '70s and now all people remember him for is the prequels
Jose Hall
Poor Mans Dazed and Confused (even though this came out first)
Nicholas Smith
I grew up in the 00's watching 90's nostalgia of the 60's. Ah, the memories!
Isaiah Turner
How does that make him dumb.
Nicholas Thomas
>>the last summer of the 50s It took place in 1962 you cuck
Oliver Howard
Dazed and Confused is just a dude weed remake and wouldn't even exist without AG.
Brayden Wright
>age of innocence >threat of nuclear destruction and recovering from the deadliest war in history
??? ???
Charles Wood
>It took place in 1962 you cuck man is Cred Forums totally dogshit recently
I know it's '62, but it's commonly recognised as the spititual end of the 50s. stop being so boring and literal, movies can be poetic.
John Taylor
innocence of youth in some way died in the sixties. not total innocence.
Isaiah Anderson
this everybody knows that the 50's didn't really end until counterculture started pickup up steam in the mid 60s
in a lot of places it didnt end until the civil rights movement and anti-war movements got televised in the late 60s. nyc and sf dont represent the entire country
Anthony Howard
Like how the 90's didn't end until 2003.
Isaiah Taylor
eehhhhh
Henry Perez
Age of innocence? Milner was into /cunny/ my dude
Luis Foster
Nah, the 90's official nail in the coffin was 2001. 2003 was fullblown suck, the post 9/11 douchebaggery we live in now
Ethan Ross
>post 9/11 douchebaggery we live in now Why is 9/11 seen as such a big deal to Americans? It's been 15 years mate. Aren't we post-post-9/11 now?
Henry Murphy
from droned Yemenis to an ever so slightly expanding Patriot Act, to american shooters getting a muslim vibe, to "german syrians", the ME shitstorm (or rather, the fact that westerners are so affected by it) that followed 9/11 is still going stronk
Christian Martin
The west as we know it today was shaped by 9/11, like it or not. It's like we ended up in a bad timeline, the 'bad end' to a game or something. What happens when the time traveling hero doesn't save the future and life goes on but down a darker path.
Liam Gonzalez
we should've listened to John Titor.
Tyler Price
I suppose you're right.
>the current middle eastern conflicts have been active for longer than WW1, WW2 and Korea combined.
I wonder if this was the intended outcome for the people who engineered the situation?
Bentley Perez
Cause he's being nostalgic for something that wasn't real.
Josiah Bell
It didn't take place in the 50's you moron.
Adam Miller
I'm not American. Stop being so obsessed with them.
Bentley Rodriguez
addressed in thread
not literal end, but presented as the spiritual end. I concede that this may not be wholly accurate, but it works for the film.
Brody Cook
>uses the word douchebaggery >I'm not American
yeah right mate
Josiah Cooper
Pretty good. Lucas does good world building, and has an interest in music.
If you watch the sequel, watch it back to back with American Graffiti--it does not stand well on its own.
Justin Brooks
Well the aim was to engage the United States and to bait the country into a culture war. al-Qaida and other affiliated terrorists in the 90s knew how to push the right buttons. They definitely foresaw a backlash against muslims.
Jace Campbell
CERN did nothing wrong. The goal was to fuck the west up and drag us into conflict we don't need. Between that and how governments have used it as an excuse to fuck citizens over they've achieved more than they could've dreamed of. Funnily enough, we have wised up a little since then. The main reason that we haven't invaded the middle east again to fuck up ISIS is that they basically want a big final showdown with the west. Just engaging in that conflict would be a win for them and go some way to validating their beliefs.
Jose King
>mfw Cred Forums is the best place to discuss contemporary political situations
Anthony Diaz
These Middle Eastern conflicts are good for the policy-making elite of the West, though. Tighter domestic control, military-industrial complex etc.
They've been gradually destablising the area since WW2. I don't buy that the Arabs took them by surpise with 9/11.
Whose benefiting from these conflicts? Someone always does.
Tyler Parker
I don't see anything wrong with it
Ryder Sanchez
...back when america was white
Nicholas Peterson
>These Middle Eastern conflicts are good for the policy-making elite of the West, though.
I wouldn't say that. The West has enough trouble as it is attempting to remain buddy buddy with the Saudis and picking a side in whatever regional conflict is flaring up at the time. Plus, the Arab Spring rode a simultaneous Panislamist revival that put the West on edge as well.
Carson Robinson
It's still 80% white, but a lot of the whites are not WASPs
Benjamin Gomez
America is realistically about 50 percent white given undocumented illegals
Ayden Lewis
2001 is too early. 9/11 was a huge event but the good times rolled a while longer, at least to the summer of 2002. 2003 was mostly shit but still had a bit of a 90's feel.
Ian Diaz
That's literally what nostalgia is though. It's a fantasy projected on a former reality.