First Thing You Think Of....
With these decades for movies?
1930s - populism
1940s - heroism
1950s - rebellion
1960s - independence
1970s - gritty, natural, and a combination of previous decades
1930s - Screwball Comedies
1940s - Film Noir
1950s - Westerns
1960s - Spies
1970s - Anti-Heroes
Good description of the genres, which I thought about mentioning... I put down "populist" for the 1930s, and noticed a movie I was thinking of is considered a screwball comedy, in the movie, "You Can't Take It With You!"
Lots of Westerns in the 50s, and in the 60s, I also noticed some spy-like movies, like "The Manchurian Candidate", "Seven Days In May" (which was released right before the JFK assassination, and he was a big fan of the book), "Advise and Consent", and that one spy movie with Richard Burton, directed by Martin Ritt - "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" (which I couldn't get into). 70s had Dirty Harry, an anti-hero, but still a traditional role.. Fighting evil by unconventional means.
I've seen many classics, but I think I love the non-classic movies from the 1930-70s a little more, per capita.
i thought 'the spy who came in from the cold' was a masterpiece. the acting, the actors, the realpolitik, the nihilism of the cold war - a lot of the great films come from fine books.
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