I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I used to love the '20s.
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.
Jazz in the 1920s and '30s was dance music, teenage music for parties, for being wild and young. There's this punk feeling I really love. It was something so radical and different and new and not codified. People didn't have a definition of what they were doing.
I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies.
I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.