Once Upon a Time in the 70s
from Just Another Friday Night Hosted by Just Another Friday Night podcast
The year is 1970 , the Vietnam War is raging and the tragedy of Sharon Tate and the Manson family is a reality. The world has changed. Hollywood and film are changed forever as well. Out of all this comes some of the greatest storytelling and film making of all time. The birth of the superhero genre in Richard Donner's Superman. The evolution of the crime genre, with The Godfather films. Sci-Fi goes off the rails with a little indy flick called Star Wars and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The blaxploitation movies come exploding on the scene as well as Martial Arts films. Comedy and horror get a changing of the guard with entries like Animal House, Halloween, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Listen in for a lesson in film history about the swinging 70's!
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