I feel so immersed in the 70s
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In 1980, white demographic was 83% of the United States. The original Halloween movie had either none or almost no non-white people, which would be expected for a middle class, midwestern suburb.
The 17% of non-white Americans would largely be found in the cities.
I could dissect the characters in several ways, but I'll keep it at the other standout which is the woman wearing the cross, that haircut is not a 70s haircut AT ALL. It's a completely modern hairstyle.
And again, that clothing style is very modern. A woman wearing a black leather jacket type thing you might see hipster chicks wear in downtown Portland, would be very odd in a middle class midwestern suburban neighborhood in the late 70s.
The last census put the percentage of non-Hispanic whites at less than 58%. The “under age 16” percentage is already under 50%. Given the number of illegals that were not counted, it’s safe to say we’re rushing towards a one half reduction in the white population of America, as a percentage, in just 50 years.
This country was completely invaded and destroyed. All that’s left is the crying.
All my tears are long since shed and dried.
There were, in fact, black people in the 70s.
The woman's hair style is attempting to emulate this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Farrah_Fawcett_1977.JPG Which was a popular look in the late 70s and early eighties.
They probably did the best they could with unreal meta human.
The hair style you're referring to is the first girl. I said the girl wearing the cross and the leather jacket.
I caught the period accurate Farrah Fawcett hairstyle, although noted it was put on a hispanic looking girl, but that 2nd girl shown, that is a modern hair style.
The second girl looks to be vaguely styled after Joan Jett https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDdlMTc1N2YtMmQxZS00ZjFhLWI0ZTItYWM4MjhhZGI0OThjXkEyXkFqcGc@.V1.jpg
And as I said, would be out of place typically in a 1970s Midwest Suburb.
In New York City, in the punk rock clubs, sure you'd find Joan Jett types.
You'd stick out in a suburb in Illinois. Not saying there would be none, but it doesn't ring true to authenticity that all of these characters are the "hippest" examples of the 1970s from different demographics.
Watch Halloween from 1978. Observe how the female characters dress. The wardrobe department picked the outfits and looks based on authenticity.
If an authentic late 70s neighborhood of people is what they were going for, they didn't land it.
This was at a time when looking even a little queer would result in you at minimum getting the shit beat out of you and run out of town, if not disappearing into the woods altogether.
If the last guy was meant to be Italian it could work. If the black guy's family were veterans it could likewise work (Dirty Dozen was what came to mind here).
The difference is White Midwestern teenagers in the 70s really would just get into harmless mischief. Joyriding, maybe some graffiti, shoplifting candy bars at most. The (((MSM))) is purposely framing the felonies of 19-to-23 year old gangbangers as youthful hijinks as part of their ongoing propaganda war against us.
I got introduced to Sanford and Son through reruns.
I find it's aged a lot better than the preachy pinko meathead mess of its sister show, All in the Family.
And Sanford and Son never pretended "we are equal to or greater than you," as far as I'm aware.
There was a reason the family was stuck running a junkyard--Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) was not a good person.
Yeah All in the Family was just propaganda. I do like Sanford and Son. You're right, every time Fred had an opportunity to move on to better things he'd screw it up with greed. It was in general just a sitcom though. All in the Family was subversion.
Arguably the only sympathetic character was the one White cop just doing his job.
He said they're going for a "70s aesthetic" (not "70s reality" or accuracy to the setting of the original movie) and from that perspective I'm not sure having a black character is entirely wrong. This was the decade that brought audiences All in the Family (in which a liberal man plays a "bigot"), The Jeffersons, and an overall massive increase in black actors compared to the previous decade (which had its own issues).
The leftist long march through the institutions was long underway by that time.
The racial demographics are part of authentic aesthetics.
If you were making a Shaft video game set in 1970s Harlem and you went and got all the 1970s New York aesthetic perfect, but 90% of the characters were white in 1970s Harlem, wouldn't that feel odd aesthetically?
Wouldn't the aesthetics of the environment and time period clash with the aesthetics of the characters.
Like having a World of Warcraft game where half the characters look like modern day navy seals. It would be odd. The aesthetics would clash.
The game is set in the 70s which is why it's the aesthetic that it is, in the same Midwest suburban neighborhood as the movie.
The point is they're aiming for "authenticity" until it comes to the "message", and then authenticity doesn't seem to matter anymore.
Don't you think when they designed the houses around the neighborhood that they did countless hours of research looking at 1970s photos to recreate furniture and wallpaper as well as possible. Yet they can't take 2 minutes to ask AI what the demographics of a typical midwestern suburb in 1979 would be comprised of?
You can either have realism or not realism. They want to have both because of political correctness. So you'll have these WW2 games with meticulously detailed firearms, yet also have the ability to customize a gender neutral black woman as your front lines infantry fighter.
Revisionist history is garbage.
Remember how the Hogwarts game had White British as a minority in rural Scotland in the late 1800s?
Yeah, it's such garbage. I'm never buying that game. I heard it's boring and empty open world anyways.
I'm out of modern gaming pretty much full stop.
PS2 and PS3 generation reigns supreme and I still play that era.
N64 and earlier is good too, but those two generations I mentioned....that's the sweet spot right there.
The 2012 apocalypse really did happen, we're only just starting to feel its effects.
Have you seen any of the original Death Wishes? Somehow Kercy was able to kill a diverse cast of criminals that somehow had intergrated gangs.