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Stranger Things and other modern movies like Wonder Woman: 1984 present an inconsistent idea of what the 1980s was like. Case in point, there's a scene in a su
by mattl 5y ago
Stranger Things and other modern movies like Wonder Woman: 1984 present an inconsistent idea of what the 1980s was like.
Case in point, there's a scene in a supermarket with a bunch of breakfast cereals from various pop franchises. That never happened in reality. In reality, the same cereal would be repackaged for whatever was the hot movie/brand at the time.
This is somewhat sent up in this video from UK's The Adam and Joe Show. https://vimeo.com/347912488 https://vimeo.com/347912488
- ElectronShak 5y ago> Case in point, there's a scene in a supermarket with a bunch of breakfast cereals from various pop franchises Yep, Season 3 Episode 1. Also seems like everyone went to the mall to hangout :-)
- jhbadger 5y agoThe mall hangout thing was pretty spot on though in the 1980s (I was born in 1970). So much so that eventually a lot of mall security started making a point of harassing teens that weren't actually actively shopping though.
- mr_toad 5y agoI think mall culture came down to two things: fewer ways to communicate, so the mall was an obvious central gathering location, and secondly fewer things to do, so the mall was where bored teens hung out.
- mattl 5y agoI grew up in the UK and moved to the US in my early 20s. In UK cities people hung out at different places, not a lot of malls.
- starwind 5y agoDidn't know that. I googled 1980s cereal and sure enough: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/70437468476516/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/70437468476516/
- omosubi 5y agoSlightly tangential but I read this article recently on how deregulation and Reagan "created your childhood" - pretty interesting stuff. https://www.everything80spodcast.com/deregulation-and-advertising-to-children/ https://www.everything80spodcast.com/deregulation-and-advert...