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Name an era when "stuff from 20 years ago" was not a nostalgia trend.
>Name an era when "stuff from 20 years ago" was not a nostalgia trend.
Word! Stuff from 20 years ago 20 years ago was hella better than stuff from 20 years ago today, amiright?
Any year before 1980
Grease the movie came out in '78 and fronted a mid 50s revival.
But yeah before that the eras dull for a while. Guessing WWII was popular in the 60s though.
Midnight in Paris explores nostalgia in two periods... 1920s and 1890s if memory serves.
People in the 1960s liked the idea of the gi joe perhaps, but they didn't want a 1940s/1930s america again what with the great depression and widespread malnutrition. I'm also not sure if midnight in paris is considering real nostalgia that people back then had, or present day nostalgia that we assume people back then probably had. The 1920s and 1890s were probably good decades to far fewer people than later decades that we are presently nostalgic about, for example. If you were rich maybe you partied lavishly in the roaring 20s, but if you were poor maybe your memory of that decade is dominated by the spanish flu, prohibition, and the stock crash that came a few years later.
Hmm, the writers/artists of 1920s Paris probably weren't filthy rich. Enough to do what they loved, rent a meager apartment, and knock a few back at the pub on the weekend. Mildly rich perhaps.
Also, a huge number of people is not usually required for nostalgia, just enough that a few get together and discuss or write it down.
Basically most ~45 year olds think back fondly to when they were ~25 and decide things are changing for the worse. Rather universal unless you grew up during a horrible time.