I'm just watching the breakfast club for the 1st time, and to me the concept of nerds as we know it today finds it source here....
I mean the concept was not invented in this movie but iconised...imprinted in the back of our minds forever.....
Don't you agree?
If you look at all the 70's and 80's movies you'll understand our whole (/big part of....) society?
And isn't kinda sad that this is how we create our culture?
2007-11-10 21:55:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Whether art reflects culture or whether art influences/creates culture is a debate that has gone on for centuries. Whatever the truth is I wouldn't say that film shapes the ENTIRE civilization - the other arts, media etc all have a large part to play (for instance there aren't - to my knowledge - any films which directly glorify celebrity, that is down to the media)
I don't believe the concept of the nerd comes from the 80s, just look at the nerds in the 1950's B-sci-fis. Even the word nerd comes from the 50s (in Dr Suess) by the 60s it meant someone dull and by the 70s meant someone bookish - not just in the US but all over the English speaking world. The breakfast club may have increased awareness of the concept but it didn't create it.
2007-11-10 22:03:50 · answer #1 · answered by Mordent 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
OMG does that mean that Bollywood and Jet Li are taking over the planet???
2007-11-11 06:24:56 · answer #2 · answered by brilliantwash 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the bealtes and rock n roll movies shaped everything.
2007-11-11 05:58:45 · answer #3 · answered by Jukebox Hero 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋