Pete from Pete's Dragon had the same hairdo Ann Romano did on One Day at a Time. I didn't know 1900s Maine had that in common with 1970s Indianapolis! Likewise, Julie Christie's bouffant in Doctor Zhivago made her look like a Russian version of Dusty Springfield.
I've noticed this in movies and on TV, too. When I was a child in the 1980s, there was still some holdover from the 1970s and even the late 1960s in terms of home and office decor, clothing, and hair styles both on TV and in real-life. You never see this in movies or TV shows that depict the era in hindsight. Even when the styles we typically associate with "The Eighties" (i.e. making everything look like a teenage girl's Trapper Keeper with Lisa Frank stickers and "Mrs. [insert teen idol du jour here]" all over it) were in full swing, this was the case. We had a lime green refrigerator and stove until we moved to a new house in 1987, where the first thing Mom did was have it remodeled to redo the hideously ugly wallpaper and floor. And she didn't stop there; that house has had more work done to it than Cher, Joan Rivers, and Phyllis Diller put together!
Another thing that I've noticed is that everyone has a new car, and almost no one drives a vintage car or a beat-up rust bucket.
If I do isolate a couple of things that grate on me, I'll have to mention films of recent decades that try to recreate the 1950s/60s/70s. They drive me a bit batty, because they'll take place in a certain year, and the set-decoration for backdrops will always be so overdone. Like everything in sight, from home interiors to office spaces to diners, will always be cutting-edge from that specific year, stylistically speaking. Reality, as I always experienced it, was always more of a composite of past and present... more mixture, more mundane. Hence, when I run across these modern films depicting those earlier eras, I find them too distractingly cartoonish to take seriously. Like a baby-boomer fever dream. They become strangely irritating and unpalatable to me.
I've noticed this in movies and on TV, too. When I was a child in the 1980s, there was still some holdover from the 1970s and even the late 1960s in terms of home and office decor, clothing, and hair styles both on TV and in real-life. You never see this in movies or TV shows that depict the era in hindsight. Even when the styles we typically associate with "The Eighties" (i.e. making everything look like a teenage girl's Trapper Keeper with Lisa Frank stickers and "Mrs. [insert teen idol du jour here]" all over it) were in full swing, this was the case. We had a lime green refrigerator and stove until we moved to a new house in 1987, where the first thing Mom did was have it remodeled to redo the hideously ugly wallpaper and floor. And she didn't stop there; that house has had more work done to it than Cher, Joan Rivers, and Phyllis Diller put together!
Another thing that I've noticed is that everyone has a new car, and almost no one drives a vintage car or a beat-up rust bucket.
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