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Date : Mon Apr 29 2024 14:30:05

Netflix movie of the day: American Graffiti is a classic coming of age tale 
with a killer soundtrack

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Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:22:19 +0000

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George Lucas's classic will make you nostalgic for your teenage years

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Let's be honest. Not every movie on Netflix is a classic. But American 
Graffiti is deserving of the label: while George Lucas' later movies may be 
more famous you may have heard of them; something about space battles and 
then a historian with a hat  it's a wonderful period piece about the end of 
teenage innocence. And it's got a great soundtrack too. Watch American 
Graffiti on Netflix now Why American Graffiti is a classic movie 

Lucas' 1973 movie is deceptively simple: it follows a group of teenagers over 
the course of a single night in 1962 in Modesto, California. They cruise the 
main street, they go to the drive-through, they listen to Wolfman Jack on the 
radio and they do the kinds of things you do when you're a teenager with 
nothing to do. But as Roger Ebert explained, "the films buried structure 
shows an innocence in the process of being lost, and as its symbol Lucas 
provides the elusive blonde in the white Thunderbird -- the vision of beauty 
always glimpsed at the next intersection, the end of the next street." 

The film was already nostalgic for a disappearing age when it was made in the 
early 70s, and it's even more of a period piece now. But time hasn't lessened 
its considerable charm, and while the soundtrack seems awfully polite the 
setting predates the more raucous rock era that came later in the decade it's 
still packed with great songs. 

This was the 1960s before the Kennedy assassination and US troops in Vietnam, 
and for Movie Nation it was Lucas' The Great Gatsby : "his statement on his 
generation, and looking back that as popular as his later works became, this 
was his masterpiece." 

One of the things about American Graffiti is that it can make you nostalgic 
for an era you didn't live through, and a life that not everyone of that age 
at that time lived. As the Chicago Daily News wrote, "I'm not sure I would 
have enjoyed their way of life, but it's a great one to remember, even if you 
didn't live it yourself, and it makes American Graffiti the ultimate 
nostalgia movie -- certainly the best teen-myth movie since Rebel Without a 
Cause ." 

As a film from a certain era, with a different kind of pace and look, not 
everyone might put it among the best Netflix movies , but it's an iconic 
piece of movie history that everyone should see once. You might also like New 
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graffiti-is-a-classic-coming-of-age-tale-with-a-killer-soundtrack


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