(10-13-2022, 01:12 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(10-13-2022, 12:23 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I was thinking the movie representing a turning should be a movie from that turning, and a product of its times; whether right or wrong I don't know but that's what I think.
Sing Street is a 2016 musical, not from the 2T, and its story takes place in the 1980s, not in the real 2T. Grease is a late 2T film about the disco scene, which is also 2T, although not the real 2T. It represented nostalgia for the 1950s but that was a 1970s phenomenon. The site I saw listed Pulp Fiction as the best film of the 3T (or at least the 1990s), but does it represent the life and times of the 3T?
American Graffiti is more like what Jason might attribute to Grease; a 3T movie appealing to 1950s nostalgia.
I was asking for either. I'm actually hoping for some examples of turnings outside of living collective memory (ex: Reconstruction, The American Revolution, etc).
I edited as post to add two Westerns. One can't miss two of the most prolific actors (John Wayne and Clint Eastwood), can one?
I love Butch Cassidy and the Sunset Kid, but... they are outlaws and they can't pretend to any high principles as would stars of a 2T flick.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.