So the 70s were still around in 1981?
looks so 70s. There's even disco music in this. Sad really, if I time travelled I'd be like "hurry up with the 80s vibe already, dis is ridiculous!"
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I wasn't even born when this movie came out, (that'd be two years later) but yes, more or less.
In a lot of ways, 1981 was still a lot like the 70's...
(just as the early 90's were still pretty 80's. THAT, I was around for) :P
-Camaros and Firebirds still used the same basic body from 1970 and looked the same as they did in 1979.
-Iggy Pop wasn't clean yet (not until 1984)
-Alice Cooper was still a chronic alcoholic and wasn't yet doing hair metal (also 1984, 1986 for the latter)
-Disco, while dying, wasn't completely dead.
-Fashion, architecture and product design were still very 70's.
Of course there's tons of other examples.
And to add to that, I remember hearing somewhere that Nighthawks was actually filmed in late 1979.
Well, it was shot in 1980 and disco was still around then. Also it's not like the fashions of the previous decade go away on January 1st of the new decade; it takes time for changes to become apparent and take hold.
shareDisco was in its' final stages by 1981, I think, thankfully.
shareYes. 1981 was still just not far out of the 70s. Reagan was just elected. New Wave was beginning to come, but it was Blondie (who had kind of a disco beat). There were big changes throughout the 80s. The closing of factories and farm crisis were big changes. The coming down of The Wall. No one saw it. The yuppification. The computer.
shareas someone above stated this wasn't 1981 but earlish 1980 to be technical for what a year's difference might make. it wasn't until the mid 80's that the 80's were known as to be what we know as the "80's".
takes time for times to change over.
There were some '80s things around, but 1984 was when pop culture became solidly eighties.
shareI think you've nailed it. There are exceptions in both directions, but I think '84 would be a good reference point for when things really started to change in an overall general sense.
Of course, I wouldn't blame anybody who was old enough to remember the beginning of the 1980's for giving me sh*t... since my earliest memories pretty much start around 1986-87.
Either way, I take a sort of pride in the fact that I spent those years in a recession in Canada and thus we had furniture and appliances ranging from the 50's to the 70's and our family's cars were a 1974 Chrysler Newport and 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88... and actually have clear memories of it. (The only then-modern things I remember having in kindergarten were a VCR and an NES... even our TV was from the early 70's and I know what it's like to literally have 3 channels... and only one without constant static)
Whereas many people I've met who were only a couple or few years younger couldn't relate.
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As evidenced by a few other 1981 movies like Prince Of The City or Cutter's Way, the gritty vibe of the 1970's was indeed still somewhat alive and about.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
Even though it's technically a very early 80s film the 70s styled grittiness is part of what makes Nighthawks work in my opinion.
shareOf course the 70s was still fresh in 1981..
share“Of course, the 70s was…” Really? Was? Were you homeschooled?
Dear lord. 1980 was the final year of the decade of the 70s (no apostrophe, per The Chicago Manual of Style). We have this absurd belief that some kind of curtain lowers on our culture every 10 years, which is COMPLETE horseshit. Out bitty minds like to compartmentalize history into 10-year spans. That is an ignorant conceit. Does none (“none” is singular=no one) have anything better to do than jerk off over when an era started and finished? This is fodder for trivial minds who do not proofread their own posts. Please do not reproduce yourselves.
You assholes posting here never set a platform shoe toe in a discotheque.
Like the 1990’s were still felt well into 2001.
shareIt’d be nice if they were always kinda around :)
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