Tag: 70s
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10 Details That Make Fear and Loathing a ’70s Vegas Time Capsule
With Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Terry Gilliam was trying to recover a very specific Las Vegas: the city Hunter S. Thompson encountered in 1971. By the time the movie was made, enough of that world had changed that the production had to combine surviving casinos, period cars, carefully chosen clothes, and reconstructed…
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10 Things Dazed and Confused Got Right About Teen Life in the ’70s
Dazed and Confused doesn’t feel nostalgic in the usual polished, everything-was-better-back-then way. Richard Linklater remembers 1976 as a lot of driving around, waiting for something to happen, trying to look cool and worrying about things that seem enormous when you’re 17 and pretty small a few years later. Much of it came straight out of…
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10 Ways These Airport Photos Prove Flying Was Cooler in the ’70s
The 1970 blockbuster Airport didn’t just kick off Hollywood’s disaster movie craze; it preserved the lost world of Golden Age aviation on film. From tailored flight attendant uniforms to spacious Boeing 707 cabins and mechanical terminal boards, these vintage frames capture the unbeatable glamor of commercial flying in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 1.…
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10 Secrets Behind Paul Newman’s Poker Game in The Sting
The poker game in The Sting (1973) looks like a battle between two men who both think they can cheat better than the other. Henry Gondorff enters Doyle Lonnegan’s private game disguised as “Shaw,” a loud Chicago bookmaker who drinks too much, ignores the dress code and seems to enjoy irritating everyone at the table.…
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10 Ways Clint Eastwood Uses Charm to Survive The Beguiled
Clint Eastwood spends much of The Beguiled (1971) in an unusual position for one of his characters. Corporal John McBurney is wounded, trapped inside a Confederate seminary and surrounded by people who could turn him over to nearby soldiers whenever they choose. His best chance of staying there is convincing them that they want him…
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7 Things Jaws Had to Fake Before Digital Effects
Making Jaws (1974) in that decade meant there was no digital shark waiting to solve the production’s problems later. If Steven Spielberg wanted something in the frame, the crew usually had to build it, rig it, photograph something real, or find a clever way to suggest that it was there. That led to some wonderfully…