The cinema retraces its steps.
From
Top Gun
to the first
Star Wars
trilogy
via
Dragon Ball Z
, references to films and series from the 80s line the many theatrical releases and on the platforms scheduled for 2022.
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The peasant humor of Bodins does not make Paris laugh
“
This decade has become an aesthetic and narrative reference
”, explains Ariane Hudelet, professor at the University of Paris, specializing in American series. There is a "
fetishization
" of the imagery of the 1980s: search for a certain grain of sound or images, use of typical objects such as cassettes. With two new
Star Wars
series
, the adaptation of the medieval fantasy saga
Willow
(1988) or the release of a
Dragon Ball Z film
, 2022 confirms the 80s as "
the decade associated with the rise of science fiction and horror
”she concludes.
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Stranger Things
This is typically the case for the
Stranger Things
series which premiered in July 2016 on Netflix: “Stranger Things
put the 80s at the top of the bill,
” observes the professor.
"
Taking the icons from Stephen King's novels at ET,
the series embodies a mixture of pastiche and nostalgic fetishization of the decade."
For Richard Mèmeteau, philosopher,
Stranger Things
is moreover not just a cover, “
it is a complete reinterpretation of childhood in the 80s in the light of our contemporary expectations.
The female characters have more important places, the monsters are more nuanced
”.
The fourth season of the series, which chronicles the adventures of a group of friends and a young girl with paranormal psychic abilities, will be released on Netflix in the summer of 2022.
The people who watch series these days are first and foremost those born in the 80s
Alain Carrazé, journalist and author
"
Even if the result has little to do with the original, a cover will stand out because it automatically arouses curiosity
" underlines Alain Carrazé, journalist and author of
Series' anatomy: the 8th art decrypted
( Fantask, 2017). “
In a landscape where there are more and more releases, using a well-known title makes it possible to stand out,
” he adds, then continues: “
The people who watch series in our time are first of all those born in the 80s.
".
“
Each generation of viewers attaches a specific memory to a work
,” observes Richard Mèmeteau, author of
Pop culture: Reflections on the industries of dreams and the invention of identities
(La Découverte, 2014).
Any modern recovery is therefore "
the opportunity to immerse yourself in these past memories
".
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Star Wars
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Obi Wan Kenobi
and
Andor
, the two
Star Wars
series
to appear on Disney +, are located upstream of the founding episode of the saga in 1977. These series therefore revolve "
for the moment around the first trilogy
", which these spectators knew children.
Like
Dragon Ball Z
, an animated manga series which has a new film adaptation in 2022 and
Willow
, which had however had little success in 1988, will be released as a series on Disney + with, in the role eponymous, then-actor Warwick Davis.
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Mission Impossible 7
: Tom Cruise shows "the stunt of his life" at CinemaCon
Tom Cruise will be showing in May 2022 in
Mission Impossible 7
and
Top Gun: Maverick
, a sequel to the exploits of the Air Force ace in 1986. With
Mission Impossible
, the American actor “
uses 'an old title
(from a series from the 1960s and 1970s, editor's note)
, to define a format that works well enough with the public to make several films of it,
”explains Alain Carrazé. As for
Top Gun
, an almost sixty-year-old Maverick (Tom Cruise), surprised in the trailer to be "
invited back
" to the army, is told by a senior officer that he has no choice but to return because it is "
an order
»... It is up to the spectators to decide if it is the one too many.