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Watching “The Outside Man “ (1972) I knew it existed but never got around to. LA location extravaganza and a pretty good chase down in Speedway, canals and the old amusement park in Venice https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070083/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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Was 1972 a special year in cinema? Pure chance but watched two movies from that year recently, completely unrelated, but they felt original and raw. I know little of that era, and they may just be copycats. The movies are “Fear is the key” and “Silent Run”.

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Here's my theory. During the 70s, there were a bunch of consolidations, like Gulf Western taking over film studios and everything. So before that, the silent generation that was in charge of Hollywood have no understanding Of the big generation, and the hippies, and the opposition to the war in Vietnam, and they still were working under the old Hollywood music industry, that you need to produce 10 for 1 to succeed. That was before Jaws, and they decided that they could actually reverse engineer entertainment, both in music and in film which had been a long managed decline

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I’m not familiar with Hollywood dynamics of the era, but to add a datapoint from India, the early 70s represent a sharp break from the past, usually associated with Zanjeer (chains), the movie that established Amitabh Bachchan as a star with what’s known as the “angry young man” character archetype, which has since been a mainstay of Bollywood storytelling. There’s a great recent documentary about the turn. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14866598/ Protagonists before then were historical figures (30s-40s), cliched political idealists (50s), or 2d romcom characters (60s). The idealism of the independence movement was still in the air (similar to WW2 veteran idealism in American movies). But by the early 70s, the grim realities of modernity had sunk in, and a post-independence realist generation had emerged, mad about corruption, inflation, urban blight etc.

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Interesting the 70s look like a strange attractor these days. https://farcaster.xyz/vgr/0x2bb0c014

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You make me realise that the 70s may have been more of a pivotal decade for cinema than I used to believe. Jaws, as well as Star Wars and Alien in the later years, with notables like The Sting and others.

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