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Breakdown 1975 Trailer - official movie trailer HD
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00:011975 was the closest America came to saying,
00:05hey, I got flaws too.
00:06And for a brief moment, cinema and pop culture
00:09was able to look at that.
00:11But it was too much, and we turned the hell away.
00:161975. Crime was up. Paranoia was rampant.
00:20From Watergate to the Bicentennial,
00:23America was having a nervous breakdown.
00:26It was a nation at the crossroads,
00:28told through the movies that captured its soul.
00:3175 was the most important moment
00:34in the history of the film business.
00:35Compared to now, everything was paradise.
00:38People used to really like good movies.
00:44Movies were made back then that didn't pander to trend.
00:48Jaws, All the President's Men, Taxi Driver,
00:51Nashville, Cuckoo's Nest Network.
00:53Studios let go.
00:55All the old conventions wiped away.
00:58And we were creating a new world.
01:01It's like the veneer was taken off.
01:04A certain idealism and a certain hope
01:06that we thought that we had,
01:08that was extinguished.
01:10The film can either put you to sleep nicely,
01:13or it can wake you up.
01:15People have got to know whether or not
01:16their president's a crook.
01:17Well, I'm not a crook.
01:19Optimism becomes cynicism.
01:22And Hollywood is reflective of that shift.
01:25I like taking people into a dark theater
01:30and giving them an experience they'll never forget.
01:32We want the lie.
01:35Because it feels good.
01:36We want the heroes.
01:38We want the happy ending.
01:40Were we living the American dream
01:42or an American nightmare?
01:45The truth was more complex.
01:47I wasn't observing,
01:49oh, here's a change in our society.
01:50That was a society.
01:52That's who we are.
01:53The past now is looking a lot more like the future.
02:15So the first thing I should say is
02:20it's a highly consistent feeling.
02:21It's a really exciting feeling.
02:23I think there is a very godlike impact in the own living
02:26These children are people that they're missing.
02:28The young people who live in the world
02:30have are they falling apart?
02:31By 2006.
02:32Look what about the future?
02:35The most important thing is to be
02:37because it's in aight,
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