What film best captures the essence of each decade?

By that I mean the film best shows both what life was like in the decade and also what the highest ideals were at the time. The film has to have been made during that time, but I'll also allow parts of a decade (e.g. early 90s) and decade crossovers (e.g. 1985 to 1994). Go as far back as you can, even to the 1910s, the more the better.

Attached: aYgnbGx_460s.jpg (460x460, 69.82K)

two I can think of are The Best Years of Our Lives and 2001: A Space Odyssey

This was fun to think about.
I'm gonna start with the 70s, and I'm listing 5 films.

70s
>Saturday Night Fever
>Smokey and the Bandit
>10
>Rocky
>Bad News Bears

Attached: Seventies.png (1628x918, 2.44M)

Go on...

id switch out casablanca for the third man, the godfather with star wars, the shining with the thing, gladiator with fellowship of the rings, and inception with the dark knight

no star wars, really?? its like you dont know anything about the late 70s

The dark knight is 2008

Not everyone was a faggy nerd. Hard to believe, but true.

>inception instead of Avengers
The past decade was the decade of capeshit and it really took off with Avengers

it was a blockbuster. my dad was a baseball coach, a huge chad in highschool and college, and he loves star wars and saw it in theaters, so did everyone else he knew. only people now are nerds about star wars because star wars sucks now

>inception instead of the social network
i cant think of a more decade defining movie, maybe wolf of wall street

It's impossible to do it with just one movie. I finished all the TSPDT 1930s movies recently and for me it seems like 1930s (at least in the United States) was all about the great depression, prohibition, screwball comedies, musicals and so on. There was also obvious socialist/communist influence in American movies (Chaplin, Capra, and many others).

80s
>The Breakfast Club
>Wall Street
>Flashdance
>War Games
>Beverly Hills Cop

>the film best shows both what life was like in the decade.
While I adore Star Wars, I'm pretty sure there weren't any functioning droids or lightsabers back then.

Attached: Eighties.png (1411x1121, 3.36M)

90s
>Clerks
>Menace II Society
>Clueless
>Office Space
>Falling Down

Attached: Nineties.png (1131x852, 1.6M)

i can smell you from here

I think clerks is a bit too niche and I don't think the cynicism of average wagie life really took effect till post 9/11

thank you, I just farted

70's was the greatest era for film.
Godfather, Exorcist, Jaws, Starwars, Apocalypse Now.

Oops. Meant to change 'Falling Down' to 'You've Got Mail'
'Falling Down' was too sensationalistic. and even though I didn't particularly care for "You've Got Mail', it did capture the culture of when online dating was a new thing, and AOL was relevent.

lol you can see the quality dropping decade by decade.

>I mean the film best shows both what life was like in the decade and also what the highest ideals were at the time.
If that's what you mean and you made that image, you're retarded. Half of those movies aren't even set in the same decade they were made in. The Godfather, fucking Gladiator for the 2000s?

Anyway, Mean Girls captures the 2000s pretty perfectly. But it came out in 2004 so it's missing a lot of the later developments of the 2000s, namely the explosion of social media and the internet. Maybe the Social Network fills that gap.

Attached: 8493631586_78536f112f_b.jpg (716x1024, 156.28K)

>20s
Metropolis
>30s
L'Atalante
>40s
Notorious
>50s
Dr. Strangelove
>60s
Easy Rider
>70s
Dirty Harry
>80s
Predator
>90s
Aladdin
>00s
Napoleon Dynamite
>10s
Avengers Endgame

>While I adore Star Wars, I'm pretty sure there weren't any functioning droids or lightsabers back then.
Fucking thank you. I don't know why these people are so retarded. Even op

Fantasy movies set in another world and period pieces? Think about it for a minute

I didn't make the image, no. Just couldn't find one that went well with what I'm looking for and got lazy.

Please don't stop

>What film best captures the essence of each decade?

>90s in Russia: Brat(I am not Russian, but I've been told it's accurate)

>Early to Mid 2010s in the USA: Nightcrawler