When you talk about what might happen to Troy and Leilani later, it's interesting to consider the movie Juliet, Naked (have you seen it? It's so good!)
(And in the movie, they did use Frampton's version of the song--the remake was on the soundtrack. It worked so well in the movie, because Leilani didn't know Frampton--neither did I.)
(I hope you don't mind my livetweeting my listening to this.)
And I so agree about the My Sharona scene. Note that Troy is too cool to join in having fun. The fact that he doesn't dance with his friends I think sums up what his problem is.
Oh, I'd forgotten that she turned down the opportunity to re-cut her show. It's interesting to compare this offer to the one that Mark in Rent gets and his reaction. Actually, it would be interesting to compare Mark and Leilani more generally.
Re: secondary characters--so much of 90s media had compelling secondary characters that I often enjoyed more than the main characters. Northern Exposure, for example--Ruth Anne and Marilyn were way more interesting to me than Joel and Maggie. The episodes that focused on them were my favorites.
I was 20 when Reality Bites came out, and parts of it were like looking in the mirror for my friends and me (the smoking, the clothes, the anti-Domino's attitude). I really appreciate the insight about Gen X solidarity that was a reaction to Boomer reactions to Gen X. And I appreciate your talking about Janeane Garafalo's character in the movie--I think that she's actually my favorite character in the movie. She and Sammy are the best.
I TA'd a writing class once that was about generational identity--the instructor of record was a Millennial and I was Gen X. I got to design an assignment where students were to watch a "Gen X" movie and write about the Gen X characteristics in it. Top Gun was one of the options I offered as one of the movies they could write about--it's definitely an important Gen X movie.
I'm the same age as the characters in the Before Trilogy--I have a very strong relationship with those movies. One thing that's interesting to consider is the idea for reality tv that Ethan Hawke has in Before Sunrise, about people recording their day and distributing the videotapes so that people could see what people's actual lives looked like. It's such an idealistic vision of what reality tv could have been.
(And I do like the third Before movie. I have a lot of thoughts about it, as I'm sure you can imagine.)
We have a chapter about Duck Dynasty in The Tacky South.
https://lsupress.org/9780807177891/the-tacky-south/
When you talk about what might happen to Troy and Leilani later, it's interesting to consider the movie Juliet, Naked (have you seen it? It's so good!)
(And in the movie, they did use Frampton's version of the song--the remake was on the soundtrack. It worked so well in the movie, because Leilani didn't know Frampton--neither did I.)
(I hope you don't mind my livetweeting my listening to this.)
And I so agree about the My Sharona scene. Note that Troy is too cool to join in having fun. The fact that he doesn't dance with his friends I think sums up what his problem is.
Oh, I'd forgotten that she turned down the opportunity to re-cut her show. It's interesting to compare this offer to the one that Mark in Rent gets and his reaction. Actually, it would be interesting to compare Mark and Leilani more generally.
Re: secondary characters--so much of 90s media had compelling secondary characters that I often enjoyed more than the main characters. Northern Exposure, for example--Ruth Anne and Marilyn were way more interesting to me than Joel and Maggie. The episodes that focused on them were my favorites.
I was 20 when Reality Bites came out, and parts of it were like looking in the mirror for my friends and me (the smoking, the clothes, the anti-Domino's attitude). I really appreciate the insight about Gen X solidarity that was a reaction to Boomer reactions to Gen X. And I appreciate your talking about Janeane Garafalo's character in the movie--I think that she's actually my favorite character in the movie. She and Sammy are the best.
I TA'd a writing class once that was about generational identity--the instructor of record was a Millennial and I was Gen X. I got to design an assignment where students were to watch a "Gen X" movie and write about the Gen X characteristics in it. Top Gun was one of the options I offered as one of the movies they could write about--it's definitely an important Gen X movie.
I'm the same age as the characters in the Before Trilogy--I have a very strong relationship with those movies. One thing that's interesting to consider is the idea for reality tv that Ethan Hawke has in Before Sunrise, about people recording their day and distributing the videotapes so that people could see what people's actual lives looked like. It's such an idealistic vision of what reality tv could have been.
(And I do like the third Before movie. I have a lot of thoughts about it, as I'm sure you can imagine.)