American Graffiti

In 1973, before George Lucas transported us to a galaxy far, far away, the filmmaker presented us with a remarkable film that reflects the concerns that arise at the end of adolescence and the entry into the adult world: American Graffiti. Source The film is set in Modesto, California , in 1962, and all the stories that we narrate in the film happen the last night of summer . The characters in the film are likable a…

In the last few years, it became very fashionable to portray the 1970s as the Golden Age. People who actually had to live in that particular period had somewhat different perspectives. In the Gloomy Decade, lamentation over a kinder and gentler past was quite fashionable. In 1973, George Lucas, a young and unknown film director at the time, was one of the first to profit from such a feeling of nostalgia. His semi-au…