Jenny would have just sent Telly a message on social media via her smartphone instead of going on a journey to find him. My friend recently said that we probably the last group of kids who had to actually be somewhere when we arranged to meet up. What else would be different about the movie, do you guys reckon.
shareYou forgot to mention something called PlayStation.
shareThere were gaming consoles in those days aswell. SNES/Genesis ring any bells.
shareOkay, Here's an article about how this movie could never have been made today: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/22/harmony-korine-kids-20th-anniversary#comments
shareThis film would not be possible to make today. I too am part of the last generation that actually had to be somewhere when we arranged to meet up. We had a couple go to places where we could always count on a couple of our friends would be.
What would be different:
1) When the kids beat the guy up at the park there would be hundreds of people snapping pictures and/or video taping the incident. It would be all over the evening news. They would have been arrested within 24 hours.
2) When the kids call the gay couple names, that would never happen today. In the 90s, even if you did not like what was happening, you jumped on the gay bashing for fear if you did not other people would call you homophobic terms. Today kids in their teens, especially in NYC, are very accepting of gay people.
3) The type of club shown in the film is long gone. Clubs like Limelight, Tunnel, etc. where people went to dance and have a good time are no longer in existence. Clubs now service Wall Street douche bags and spoiled rich kids who can spend $300-$400 on bottle service and put it on their expense account or daddy's credit card. In the 90s the doorman at Limelight would have laughed in their faces and denied them entrance. The bar at Limelight in the 90s was in the corner and was tiny. Today the clubs are all about making money at the bar versus people actually having a good time.
4) The four kids, who looked like they were 10, smoking weed on the sofa. Today one kid would snap a picture and post it on instagram or some other social media site and the parents would be talking to child services.
5) One last thing, in the 90s NYC delis and bodegas usually had no problem selling kids they knew were underage beer. Cops really did not care either. Today there are stings and store owners have to be much more consistent checking IDs.
I agree...for the most part...but I do still think people would still call gay couples names. Havent you seen the outrage over Gay Marriage becoming legalized? Times have changed but some people's views/thoughts still havent unfortunately.
Yes, there still is homophobia. However, given that this film takes place in NYC and the story revolves around kids in high school, I doubt if the film took place today the kids would be homophobic. I have lived in NYC my whole life and today people are very accepting of gay people, especially kids in high school. Although NYC has always had a big gay population, in the 90s most people were not accepting especially younger people. I graduated high school in 1992, and there was only one openly gay person (he was two years ahead of me) and for the most part he kept to himself and had no real friends and a lot of awful things were said about him behind his back. Someone I keep in touch with who is now openly gay (he was a year below me in high school) told me he only admitted to his two closest friends in high school that he was gay. He was too frightened of the backlash if he came out in high school. He also told me that if he attended high school today he would have felt much more safe coming out since society and younger people are much more accepting.
shareThe outrage over Gay Marriage compared to outrage over homophobia is pretty minuscule, in my eyes of observation over these past couple years.
shareYeah. I was IDd for beer in a store I've been going for over a year because I had a close shave. I'm 32 years old. Around the time when Kids was released, my friends got served booze at as young as 12, stores and bars didn't really give a damn back then. I didn't grow up in NY, but in the 90s, you could have a good night out for under £10. Today, you'd be lucky if you get change out of that after buying two drinks. I hate the whole "selfie" culture that's around today, it's so annoying. People will take pictures of the most banal things just because they don't actually have to develop them.
At the risk of sounding like an old man, I feel sorry for kids these days. They can't get away with s___. I recently heard that my old high school has actually banned kids from bringing in fizzy pop. I couldn't believe it, I used to make a bit of extra money by selling drinks to other kids. The idea that a teenager would get into trouble for doing that now is ridiculous.
Yeah, I could by beer when I was 15 with no issues at all. I remember one high school party when we would take turns going to the bodega to buy 12 packs of beer. The man behind the counter did not flinch, to him this was easy money and several more hundreds of dollars he was going to make that night.
You are right about the selfie culture, it is sad. Me and my high school friends do not have that many pictures we did not see any need to document every single moment of our lives. We created memories and still love to talk about them today. We lived our lives and did not need to stop and take pictures every five minutes. I am actually glad since we did a lot of bad things and I am happy there was no evidence.
Kids today cannot get away with anything. While me and my friends did not do drugs, we drank a lot, loved to egg people and cars and stole a lot (mainly things like street signs, license plates, etc). It was not uncommon for us to cut class. I cannot remember the last time I saw egg shell on the street, even after Halloween. I am sure that if me and my friends tried to do what we did in the 90s someone would have snapped a picture of the license plate of the car we were driving around egging people in and it would only me a matter of time before the cops tracked us down. There is also no way we could have gotten away with our infamous scavenger hunts.
Another thing that doesn't seem to be as prevalent these days; joyriding. This is a good thing, though. When I was a teenager, it used to happen all the time, and there were totalled cars everywhere/ Because of GPS technology, kids today wouldn't dare steal a car.
shareWell, my friends and I never stole a car. However, we would frequently take our parent's cars without them knowing. When we did we would usually drive around egging people.
shareGreat question. Obviously it'd be a very different movie. Makes me think I should try to dig deeper into what else is out there for movies about teens being made today that cuts deep into the social reality of what teens experience today. Anyone have any suggestions of what's good in that department?
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