What can we learn from "American Graffiti" (1973)?

Ever see The Outsiders? I was a madras-wearing college prep who greased his hair and rolled a pack of smokes in my t-shirt, and we rumbled with other schools after games. Absolutely tribal.
No guns, just fists and you were better in a day or two. What a time to be alive.
There weren't any good fights in that Lucas fagarama. Nice cars, but no Boss 302s, '65 Corvettes or Goats.

the culture was pro traditionalism when they were growing up, their freelove counter-culture ended that. now they're about to kick the bucket and their descendants will be forced to clean up their mess. if we beat globohomo, the history books won't look kindly on boomers.

huh?
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Please, that's the most homoerotic shit I've ever seen

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That it's the second best film of all time behind 2001.

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did he seriously do anything original himself. i think he ripped people off or was a hand for the elite or some shit, his wife was a awesome film editor, he divorced his movies went to a mad shitter

no, this is.

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Born in the 50's they got the idea plenty was easy and endless, from the 60's they got the idea that traditional values were square, then working in the 70's - before massive immigration - their debts got dissolved with inflation and they worked 30 more years and retired wealthy - confirming their notion that wealth is easy.

Star Wars was a beautiful disaster; lucky should have never happened. Wasn't able to match his vision and thank god for that.

Indy was based as fuck spieljew was in on it two

The question isn't what we can learn from American Graffiti. It's pre-Kennedy assassination America, the culture was still rooted in the Golden Age of the 1950's.

The real lesson is comparing American Graffiti to its lesser known sequel, More American Graffiti. It shows the descent of American culture as the 60's progressed. Steve is an insurance agent working to provide for Laurie his twin sons. Laurie becomes a feminist and their whole story arc is about how Steve learns that he's an arsehole for not wanting Laurie to work and they end up getting arrested with a bunch of civil rights protestors. Debbie ends up as a drugged out groupie whore in San Francisco. Toad ends up in Vietnam, where he deserts after most of his friends (including Big Joe, the Pharoah) are killed. John is killed by a drunk driver after winning the 1964 NHRA Winternationals and picking up an Icelandic girl along the way.

American Graffiti is the dream, More American Graffiti is the nightmare.

we have a board for this shit
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Are you on crack?

>What can we learn from "American Graffiti"

That age is a social construct:
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That storyline reminds me of Forest Gump.

MODESTO

Post isn't about the cinematography, it's about the politics. Besides, too many faggots on other boards.

/tv/ could never understand MODESTO

Smart user.

Would be an interesting question only posing Last Picture Show and Texasville

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Fuck off faggot! 300 black dick threads and you take issue with this one? Kys

For starters, it takes place in 1962. Yes, it is nostalgic, but not through as distorted a lens as something like Grease or The Sting. It was made 11 years after it takes place...picture a movie today taking place in 2008.
Secondly, I enjoyed the movie and thought it had some good humour, characters, and drama. A straight-up entertaining movie when you're between the ages of 18 and 25.
Finally: it holds a sacred place in the takes-place-in-a-single-day genre of movies: Dazed and Confused, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dog Day Afternoon, The Goonies.

Yes, it's boomer. But that doesn't mean it isn't good.

>takes-place-in-a-single-day genre of movies
>not mentioning Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Disappointing Leafbro.

Also, I guess the big thing to note was the boomer era "problem" dilemma that Richie Cunningham was going through..wasn't it about college or something? It was his last big night before college and leaving his girlfriend? Also sociological aspects about the last breath of small town America. The American institution of the American Automobile. No drugs. Kids still having respect for themselves. But yeah; probably the boomer "problem" would be apt to contrast with a person of same age in today's age. There are conservatism notions...his decisions about wether he should leave for college were weighed on a moral sense of right and wrong and honour and duty; What his parents thought; Wether he wanted to leave his town he loved behind; what he owed his community in terms of making a life for himself after they've fostered his upbringing. Not whining behind a laptop at Starbucks with headphones in wanting to be a graphic designer in New York City but mad because no one would pay him enough to make rent

The fifties look so comfy. Is it just a Hollywood meme?

Good call on that one!

Good points. The characters were actually more-or-less torn about the paths that lay before them; a tug-of-war between ambition, duty, expectations, and desires. I always liked the white t-shirt dude who's trying to swat away the little sister, acting edgy and nihilistic because his life prospects seem hopeless...how timeless a concept is that?!

Excellent to see an user who recognizes 2001's transcendence.

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