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Through whatever magic, this one just showed up on my iPad, with the correct date and everything. Also, the full movie seems to be on Youtube, but it wouldn't let me watch it on my iPad. Probably because the app I was using wouldn't let me see the ads.
FWIW, the history cycle thing that Trey referenced is from the book The Fourth Turning.
The four types of generations are:
Hero - G.I. generation --> "the greatest generation" and Millennials (tend to be cannon fodder in their youth and like musicals)
Artist - Silent Generation --> Neil Armstrong, Gloria Steinem, Paul McCartney (they go to the moon and make the good music) -- also the generation type being born right now in the USA which is usually called the Homeland Generation
Prophet - Baby Boomers (tear down the establishment only to rebuild it as adults, get to grow up listening to the good music)
Nomad - Gen X (born when having kids was unpopular and have kids right when the economy goes south, tend to like art infused with technology like video games and superhero movies)
Here's a friendly chart of the types.
BLAST FROM THE PAST is interesting in this light because it's basically the story of a Silent Gen/Baby Boomer who has to learn to get along with Gen X kids in the 90's. The opposite is BACK TO THE FUTURE, where a Gen X kid has to get along with Silent Generation teens in the 50's. Somewhere in the middle is the original FREAKY FRIDAY where a Gen X kid (Jodie Foster b. 1962) trades bodies with a Silent Gen mom (Barbara Harris b. 1935) in 1976.
They remade Freaky Friday in 2003 with Boomer/Millennial dynamics, but it didn't seem to have the same dramatic generational tension as the original. Maybe because those two generations tend to get along alright without help?
Like.
I just remembered the other movie that fits in this category PLEASANTVILLE. Two late Gen X kids (Reese Witherspoon b. 1976 and Tobey Maguire b. 1975) go back to the late 50's/early 60's and invent the consciousness revolution while coming to terms with their own apathy.
Also, as an easier summary, I thought I'd try to find one movie that sums up the youth of each generation.
Lost Generation - Horse Feathers (The Gen X before Gen X)
G.I. Generation - Babes in Arms
Silent Generation - Rebel Without A Cause/American Graffiti
Baby Boomers - Forrest Gump
Gen X - The Breakfast Club
Millennials - High School Musical
Homeland Generation - ...too early to say, so far they just have CARS, but boy those Artist gens love cars the way Hero gens love musicals.
Great commentary, I love the rewriting ones. And it’d make a pretty sweet musical, so go get on that.
As a side note, as this movie was pre-Firefly so it would’ve definitely been pre-Buffy for Nathan Fillion, because he didn’t come onto Buffy until after Firefly was cancelled. He was in the back half of Season 7.
Oh, and I found it weird too when I went to the US for the first time and encountered homeless people and peoples' attitudes towards them. Not that we don’t have homeless people in New Zealand, because we do, but we don’t have very many, at least not in Wellington. And at least twice in the past 10 years, the death of a homeless person in Wellington has made front page news, not because it was a dramatic or shocking death but simply because both people were well known in the city and it was of interest to people when they passed away.
He’s also right about the religious aspect – in New Zealand politics, if you start going on about religion (of any kind) as part of your campaign you will be quickly marginalised. Whether voters are religious or not, it seems to be a fairly unified consensus that politics and religion have very little to do with one another. Of course there are Christian parties (well, a couple) but nobody takes them very seriously.
Last edited by everythingshiny (2014-04-22 03:13:07)
I want to see that movie that you guys said.
Also, I actually think, while not strictly necessary, it greatly enhances the experience to watch the movie, part of the fun is seeing the carcass picked clean, also there's a lesson there that would be lost otherwise.
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