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A Film That Best Represents The 1970's ??

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Saturday Night Fever

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Good answer! Also Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Chinatown.

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The Godfather’s Part 1 and 2
Clockwork Orange
Rocky
The Deer Hunter
The Sting
Animal House-Parts of it accurately depict what college students did to “party it up”, while loosening out their free spirits.
Halloween
The French Connection
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest-It was an accurately sad, yet very touching portrayal of how the mentally ill were treated back in the 1960s and the 1970s. Nurse Ratched pretty much resembled the horrors that every mental patient would have in one of those institutions. It was a beautiful adaptation, nonetheless. I’ve heard that this movie even inspired a movement to banish corruption from these dysfunctional facilities.

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Nashville. Really captures the mood of America at the time of the Bicentennial extremely well.

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Nashville was my first choice. Also, and a very different sort of film, The Exorcist. Interesting how each film sums up not only the decade but the year it was made, with The Exorcist very much of the Nixon-Watergate period, Nashville on the cusp of the later, Jimmy Carter Seventies, yet with an eye on the previous decade as well, with its assassinations "subtext".

Also early to mid-decade, two with Al Pacino: Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon.

Early Seventies: just about everything with Jack Nicholson in it, regardless of the actual period in which the film is set. I suppose Robert Altman's MASH belongs there, too, in its feeling Vietnam era even as it was set in the Korean war.

Late Seventies: Travolta and Stallone rising. Also, the early years of Meryl Streep, who became famous virtually overnight. From the same period, Jane Fonda's "comeback", notably Coming Home. The three Jaws stars were very much a presence at that time as well: Robert Shaw, (sadly) briefly, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider much longer (The Deep, The Goodbye Girl, All That Jazz).

So many films stood out in those years, and "summed up" that period without directly referencing it.

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mort i'm just a bit confused. are you looking for flicks from the 70s that represented the culture at the time? or a modern film that best represented the feel…look etc.

hard for me to choose one from the actual seventies…obviously they all look and sound correct. but two modern movies i feel captured it properly…the ice storm and the virgin suicides.

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A movie from the 70s that best describes modernity… A movie you'd show to some young'n wanting to know how life was like back then.

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either way…its a solid thread my man!

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Boogie Nights.

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The Omen

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Dazed and Confused, but I am only basing that off the fact that it is set in the 1970s and I have few other sources of what everyday life was like back then.

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I grew up in the 70's, and while I was too young to experience anything like that movie first hand, I had an older brother (who was an athelete/stoner) and sister, and I can speak with a certainty that this was exactly what high school life was like back then. It was still like that in the 80's to some degree, but the times were definitely changing.

I'm glad I got the 80's life instead, where technology was beginning to happen in full force and I got cool gadgets like my trusty old Commodore 64 to amuse myself with in addition to arcade/pool halls to hang out on the weekends and get high in the parking lot and nearby unattended storage lockers.

The police barely even messed with people then. Good times.

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Dazed and Confused. They nailed it.

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I understand that you were looking for films made in the 70s that reflected the times, but may I submit for your approval???

Two movies set in the 70s that were made much later on.

Now and Then,1995. The early 70s when I was a tween.

Starsky and Hutch, the Movie, 2004. The mid to late 70s when I was in my late teens/early 20s

They reflect the times very well! They have the vibe! Those were the days!

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