00:011975 was the closest America came to saying hey I got flaws too and for a brief moment cinema and
00:08pop culture was able to look at that but it was too much and we turned the hell away
00:171975 crime was up paranoia was rampant from Watergate to the bicentennial America was
00:24having a nervous breakdown it was a nation at the crossroads told through the movies
00:29that captured its soul 75 was the most important moment in the history of the film business
00:35compared to now everything was paradise people used to really like good movies
00:44movies were made back then that didn't pander to trend jaws all the president's men taxi driver
00:51Nashville cuckoo's nest network studios let go all the old conventions wiped away
00:58and we were creating a new world it's like the veneer was taken off a certain idealism and a
01:05certain hope that we thought that we had that was extinguished the film can either put you to sleep
01:12nicely or it can wake you up people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook
01:17optimism becomes cynicism and Hollywood is reflective of that shift
01:27I like taking people into a dark theater and giving them an experience they'll never forget
01:33we want the lie because it feels good we want the heroes we want the happy ending
01:40were we living the american dream or an american nightmare the truth was more complex
01:48I wasn't observing oh here's a change in our society that was a society
01:51that's who we are the past but now is looking a lot more like the future
02:06that's how the earth is it today
02:10it's so very refreshing to the screen
02:13I'm gonna need to touch with you
02:15I just checked out here
02:16you
02:16you
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