So if Back to the Future came out today Marty would go back to 1990, which doesn’t feel as far from now as 1955 did from 1985. What accounts for that? Or did American life really change that much in those 30 years, but didn’t change much in the 30? Honest questions. It’s weird.
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the 50s were also already sold as their own fantasyland with shit like Happy Days in a way that never happened with the 90s (and maybe any other decade)
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Absolutely. This is why I a remake of BACK TO THE FUTURE would be fundamentally lacking. So much of the Reagan era was built on an idealized past. For myriad reasons that kind of illusion is a lot harder to manufacture and sell on a large scale.
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