I didn't watch the movie too closely (it's on the internet) but i caught some of the slang like "eat me" and "are you high" and realized kids didn't say that in the 70's. I would like to know what kind of slang kids did use back then.
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Since I was alive then, I'd have to see it to believe. Any movies or written stories from 70s. Otherwise I'd stick to my guns and say those are contemporary, not 70s.
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I'm from Pittsburgh and we definitely used to say, "Are you high?" in the 70's. My one thought about the slang in the movie was that we didn't say "The Burgh" though. I remember it being in an article about the Steelers first Super Bowl win back in 1975. So it must have been in use by then but I never really heard it in common usage until the 90's.
shareI give...guess i was too young to recall. Or too old to remember clearly :)
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They did where I live. I graduated H.S. in '73.
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One thing I did notice about the movie, was that Mickey is playing baseball in Los Angeles and it's near the end of the MLB season, which would mean September. Except the high school baseball season runs March to June, even in 1972.
shareWe used those terms in the late 50s and 60s. I was R&Ding vehicles for sending men into space by the early 70s. So I dunno if the slang persisted.
Will say that in early 70s girls and women were wearing mini skirts. My wife looked great in them.
But not in this movie.
Gott ist tot.
Nietzsche
The movie captured it pretty well. Not only for kids from the "Burgh", but kids from my NJ roots too. The older bro was my age and the slang was pretty similar.
There was nothing artificial in the writing and final producing of this sweet story based on true events.
As a life-long fan of "The Great One", I feel that this was a wonderful testament to Roberto and to the love between these two brothers.