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The remake dates is a clever approach to quantifying the trend. Nostalgia might be driving it in part, but I've also seen a lot of it driven by people who neve
by derbOac 5y ago
The remake dates is a clever approach to quantifying the trend.
Nostalgia might be driving it in part, but I've also seen a lot of it driven by people who never experienced the era. Young adults fascinated by the era just before the one they were born into, just barely out of reach but still available to their casual awareness.
It's not always the 30 year olds driving the trends out of nostalgia, sometimes it's the 20 year olds pining for an idealized version of an era they never experienced themselves, but can easily intuit.
- ghaff 5y agoMidnight in Paris is a fun take on this phenomenon among other things. I don't know about the quantification. But there certainly is something about the pining for an idealized prior time period. One good example today is the retro appeal of film, vinyl, and even instant photography. You also see it in design and fashion. I'd say certain aspects of 60s style are seen as appealing today whereas in the 70s-80s, they'd just be seen as old-fashioned. You're really talking about the point where tired becomes retro-chic.
- usrusr 5y ago“pining for an idealized version of an era they never experienced“ Best illustrated, perhaps, by international man of mystery Austin Powers. Is there a remake in the works? Would be about time considering how the age of the film will soon be approaching the age the time it referenced had while filming. That remake would be quite meta retro, almost reaching the complicated stack of nostalgia layers in 2077.