Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these parties also serve as moments of intense action and change: Jack's 1980 New Year's party in particular is a crossroads after which none of the characters' lives remain the same. The carefree '70s have finished, and now these characters must face the sobering (if drug-ridden) '80s. What goes up must come down, and as usual, the fall is not nearly as much fun to watch as the rise...
...characters ultimately get some perspective as well. By the end of the film, in a shot that cleverly mirrors the opening disco scene, Jack surveys his "family" and uses a classic '70s word to describe what his life has become in the '80s: "mel-Photo courtesy of New Line CinemaAN ENSEMBLE CAST: BURT REYNOLDS, MARK WAHLBERG and JULIANNE MOORE invite you to their party and hope that you will stay around to help...
...about seven kids in my class born in the U.S.A., that I was particularly amenable to Republican patriotism. It was Reagan's image as an uplifting, all-American leader that made it easy to associate with the G.O.P., especially when compared with the wishy-washy Democratic Party of the '80s...
...part, this image of the '80s persists because I was too young to notice that the rich were getting richer while the poor lost out, that money that Reagan could have allocated to AIDS research or education was being diverted to a bloated defense budget. In part, too, this image persists because it was a simpler time: with the Cold War not yet won, the policy spotlight focused not on health care, affirmative action and gay rights, but on Star Wars...
...then 29-year-old a prominent spot in the generation of young film-schooled directors that included Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Brian DePalma, who together created a new, nervy kind of movie-literate cinema but who then, as the 1970s wore on into the '80s and '90s, made some really rotten movies along with the good. Malick's reputation, meanwhile, remains crystalline, pure with the promise and power of his youthful work. Badlands, which was shot for somewhere between $250,000 and $350,000--no money even in those days--starred Martin Sheen and Sissy...