3/8/2006 2:32 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Coming of age in the 80s
I was one of those around in the 80s and graduating from high school and going to college during the first half...
it was a time of course of rebound from the 70's era and early on it was marked by embracing of many fads including the "preppy fad" that hit while i was at college
suddenly everyone was wearing docker shoes, girls were wearing plaid skirs, and everyone was wearing alligators on their chests.....like over night.
i think it was an era of searching for an indentity post 70s.,..but maybe also an era of looking inward rather than outward so much
some of the 80's films do show a certain amount of self-absorbtion
some of the 80's emergent pop stars show a certain amount of indentity quest.....madonna, boy george, prince, etc....
One of my favorite 80s films was St. Elmo's fire..... Not sure why I liked it so much but I saw it in college and thought it was great. You can really see the theme of kind of self absorbed searching there...... (side note....Demi Moore was in it, although you would hardly recognize her today.... ..!)
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