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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 11:26:15 GMT
In the 1998 movie Pleasantville, Reese Witherspoon's character decides at the end to stay in Pleasantville, saying she'd have a better life in Fifties America than she would in the 1990s real world. She even mentions her grades in the real world means she has no chance of university, unlike the Pleasantville Fifties America.
Would any poster here prefer the world of an old sitcom to live in?
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 16:20:43 GMT
Gilligan's Island for me. I've always liked that little island and the people on it.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 16:52:03 GMT
I'd like to live in Father Knows Best or Leave it to Beaver.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 22:35:27 GMT
Both classic sitcoms.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2017 5:56:37 GMT
I'm sure Tim would like to live in Gidget. You're surrounded by beautiful girls, and you don't do much of anything except hang out at the beach and soda shop. Yeah they technically go to school but nobody seems to take their studies seriously or even worry about a career path. Plus dad's well off with a fancy house close to the ocean.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2017 16:27:23 GMT
Gidget was made decades ago, and cannot be held to 2017 standards.
For example, in those days, they had white actors play Native Americans. Back then, they could get away with that, today, however, it's unacceptable, and rightfully so.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2017 17:11:03 GMT
I wouldn't like to live in Mork and Mindy. Mork would be super irritating to be near.
Some years ago, Analog had a novella (title and author unfortunately forgotten) where a woman and a man had to time-travel back to 1965 and Save the World by preventing something from happening. Rather than physically going back, though, it was their adult minds that were sent back to temporarily hijack their younger selves (15 for the woman, 14 for the guy). One of the big difficulties in carrying out the mission was how restricted a high-school girl was, especially then. The guy had a little more freedom but more difficulty getting the couple hundred miles to where she was, to say nothing of disappearing for a couple days.
She commented that the good old days aren't all that great not viewed through rose-colored glasses.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2017 22:27:57 GMT
Not to mention the problems of communications. The way people communicate now, the Internet and cell phones, didn't exist in 1965.
Rather they would to have to rely on their parent's land lines or use pay phones. Being teenagers, that would not be easy.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 8:30:19 GMT
If i were to wake up now in my 15 year old self, I wouldn't remember things like, what was the relationship like between my parents and myself at the time and what rules and restrictions i was under as a 15 year old. As for school: I wouldn't remember what times my classes were, what rooms they were in, what subjects i was studying and who the heck many of my classmates were, let alone what the social world of my school was like 22 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 4:15:31 GMT
Another sitcom I'd choose is the Beverly Hillbillies. That huge mansion of theirs, land in Britain, it would be great!
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 13:56:37 GMT
Wouldn't want to get on the bad side of Granny though.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 16:35:36 GMT
Me neither.
Never mention the fact that the North won the Civil War around her
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 9:58:14 GMT
It's been some years since i saw the movie Pleasantville but the 1990s girl's decision to (temporarily) stay still seems foolish. It's still 1958 America, she's still a female in that time period and if she does return to the real world, her education is 40 years out of date and no 1998 real-world institution would honor her degree from a fictional version of Eisenhower-era America.
a real world teenager transported to a fifties sitcom: I don't think many modern young girls would appreciate not being able to wear trousers to school, being expected to perform Christianity and attend church or suffer repercussions, being nicknamed something like Kitten and being expected to get their "MRS" instead of an actual education.
Oh and only having newspapers, radio and TV would probably suck to a modern kid...
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 16:55:33 GMT
Millennial kid trapped in the 1950's: What? No Internet, no cell phones, only three channels!? KILL ME!!
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