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A Film That Best Represents The 1970's ??


What do you all think?

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you first

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Taxi driver

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I was asking the OP. Maybe you meant to reply to BillHicksFan.

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imagine that -- answering the question!

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is that your answer to mine?

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no, trolls like you go on ignore.

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so sensitive. check my posting history and tell me if you see a troll.

and you might've allayed the obvious confusion in replies if you had started the bidding yourself. I guess asking for your own take was too offensive for some bizarre reason.

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I’m sorry, I was replying to the OP.

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no apology needed. I was just letting you know.

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American Graffiti
The Last Picture Show

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Neither takes place in the '70s.

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American Graffiti does. Look it up. I was wrong about The Last Picture Show.

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American Graffti takes place at the end of the 1962 school year.

I "looked it up".

You were wrong on both.

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Mean streets.

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network
the china syndrome

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Since you mentioned The China Syndrome, I always have thought Michael Douglas was oddly bad in it. Seems like it was an early acting gig for him and he hadn't quite found his footing yet. Otherwise I like the movie.

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Lemmon was great in this. Douglas was the producer and his character seemed almost in the way most of the time.

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Network
A Clockwork Orange
The Sting
Dirty Harry
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
The French Connection
Saturday Night Fever

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Almost all classics from 1971-1975. 70's were def. most realistic period of cinema movies. Movies were just brutally real.
Dirty Harry
French Connection
Chinatown
Panic in the Needle Park
Straw Dogs
Aguirre:Wrath of God
Mean Streets
Conversation
Night Moves

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The ones that came to my mind first have been answered..

I'll add in:

-Harry and Tonto
-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

and another favorite, "Fat City"

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Doesn't One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest take place in the '50s?

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60s, but I was so drawn in, I forgot!

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Watermelon Man

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That’s quite a good movie. I thought it was going to be a really goofy movie when it started but the tone changes as the film progresses.

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Yeah I love it. Saw it by chance on AMC and I thought it was smart and hilarious.

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That's a lot of ground to cover for one movie. Are you asking for a representation of what daily life was like in the 70s? Or perhaps pop culture, politics, social issues, popular entertainment, biggest star of the decade, wars/conflicts, the economy, the U.S., or the bigger world?

But if you're asking, when you think of the 70s what movie comes to mind, I'd say All the President's Men. With the exception of the Vietnam War, Watergate defines the 70s to me.

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I was hoping everyone would choose.. The first thing you mention " representation of what daily life was like in the 70s? " is what I had in mind. I wasn't born in the 70s, so a movie that gives me a good idea of everyday life.

Of course, many might think of the major events, but I know life isn't like that. We're in many wars now, but no one seems to talk about it, but when I hear about Vietnam, one would think the late 1960's was nothing but chaos, but I've seen events days after Kennedy was killed, and there'd be no mention.

Even better, if you or anyone else would list movies that fit each of the different things you mention.... I'd also add "Nashville"

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thanks for the clarification. I thought you meant the decade itself rather than the decade in film but I wasnt sure. maybe an example of your own from the start would've made it clear from the start.

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