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But the movie is not unidimensional. Lucas' well written screen-play does not make the boys into symbols pure and simple. Lucas has the courtesy to treat them as flesh and blood.
Lucas uses the pursuit of adolescent sex as a device to pace the film and develop his characters. The dolt must separate from his high school sweetheart, the captain of the cheerleaders. He discovers that he can't. The one who is reticent about leaving home spends the night pursuing...
American Graffiti is not a soft soap film like its nostalgia predecessors. The end of the film, which is a mite too fanciful (with the college bound boy flying away on "Magic Carpet Airways"), is sober if not sobering. Everybody does not get his girl. But everyone does make his...
American Graffiti is not just a sequence of events. It is a nostalgia movie a la mode and its success in reconstructing the early sixties is phenomenal. From the Coke to the burger stands with waitresses on roller-skates, from the souped-up cars to the ducktails and pony-tails...
LUCAS' BEST TOOL for recreating the early sixties is the soundtrack. From beginning to end the film is accompanied by sixties golden oldies. The silly lyrics and uncomplicated melodies put you in the appropriate mood faster than any ten reruns of Leave It To Beaver ever could.