[SpaceBar]

We are further away in time from the movie than the movie was from the era it represented.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This is true. The movie was made in 1973 and was set in 1962 Central Valley of California, I think?

So it was actually only 11 years in the past when it was made. And here we are 45 years after the movie was released.

But then again, the era represented, the early ‘60s, was before all the major social changes of the ‘60s happened.

[ifinnegan]

“We are further away in time from the movie than the movie was from the era it represented.”

It was only 11 years earlier, set in 1962 and released in 1973 but it was a million years away by then.

The hippies destroyed everything fast.

As kids we loved the soundtrack album. Listened to it all the time.

[Joe 6-pack]

"We are further away in time from the movie than the movie was from the era it represented"

I had a similar thought a little while ago while reminiscing with some 80s music. The Kinks' song, "Come Dancing," came out in '83. Ray Davies was around 39 at the time and waxing nostalgic about his early teen years. I was a 13-14 at the time, so his song about the music of his teen years actually became a song that takes me back to my teen years.

Now as I close in on 50, it occurs to me that I'm a decade older than Davies was when he wrote that song.

[Bonemaker]

That was when America was still America ie before Obama.

[qam1]

Also Dazed and Confused about 1976 came out in 1993.

17 years in the past vs 25 years since the movie.

Really Scary. It’s been 23 years since the Brady Bunch Movie which came out in 1995, which was 21 years after the series ended in 1974.