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1 month ago (edited) Report

Im intrigued on breakfast club getting it right. i felt even to some degree it could have been my early middle school environment in some places. though the models did some changing.
I often wonder what todays HONEST breakfast club would be. not dominated by a single idea, but an honest portrayal of the environment today and where idea clash between apposing "types" in todays highschool, if thats even really a thing anymore.
maybe someone even younger than us, then another even younger than them might chime in here xD.

I figured it must have hit some kind of lived in experience though given that movies almost religious status among some.

I also wondered about what you mentioned with your friend, how what we see today is like this cartoon version of what was really only in the biggest most hip cities of the time, and if it was like when i was a real young kid,
It didnt reach the outskirts for a while, and while it was 1986 In LA, it was probably still 1978 in gary indiana. lol.
From my toddler youth into young childhood, it was the early 90s.
but for me, grunge was very far away.
out in the boonies it was still kinda 1989 but with 1995 on the big television set.
that was probably from 1989.
And my mom was driving a 78 z28 camaro. lol

I think the universal experience for suburban dirtbags from the mid 70s through the mid 90s was much more akin to The Stoned Age than any of the other works cited

by Cranky Old Witch; 1 month ago (edited); Report

One thing to point out about The Breakfast Club.

This is set in Shermer Illinois in 'present day' (1985).

Molly Ringwald's character pulls out a bento box of sushi for her lunch.

The reaction is quite real. No one comments on it but Bender, but sushi outside of the west coast at that time was practically unheard of.

Her character pulling it out at a high school detention was seemingly pretentious and buji.

I can ever recall when a sushi place first became a 'thing' in my neck of the woods, and we're only about an hour or less outside of NYC.

Sushi is almost as common as pizza by now.

by Cranky Old Witch; 1 month ago (edited); Report

yeah sushi, it had a slow rise, but late 90s on an explosion because of the explosion of otaku culture in the west. anime and such. i have distinct memory of before and after that boom.
Of when it was weird if i saw wicked city and then just a few years later that was poser newbie shit lol.
But yeah last decade it seams, sushi in america has really exploded.
seams to have come in large spurts. like it was nowhere, then it was niche popular in a sort of fancy coffee shop cosmopolitan yuppie way but now everyone knew what it was and every big city had it somehwere,
to now as you said, Anime hit the west hard and now its as american as corndogs.

it is a unique experience whenever i watch something of an era like that and see that. the different meaning at the time something completely innocuous now could have.
How it was a signal of her being on the fashionable cutting edge of cosmopolitan metro fashion etc (whatever terms apply idk ive been a dirtball metalhead since birth lol)
at the time.
little things like that when i notice them just give me a little weird pleasant feeling. like emotional archeology.

Its like in 12 angry men and i see how very different the bathrooms were in the 50s, and that weird roll up dry cloth dispenser that rolled up into itself that was the main thing before paper towels.

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