What year was this set in?
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flern — 15 years ago(August 05, 2010 04:33 AM)
color tv is the dead give away
Not really. Why did everyone drive 50's style cars if the movie took place in the era of color television? I suggest that you read the rest of the thread, and then ponder why at the beginning of the movie, it was explicitly slated as "Another time, Another place".
And even if the movie was supposed to be set in some "real" time period, how do you know that the video jukebox (or whatever it was that was seen in the movie) was supposedly based on color television technology? Technology existed in the "real world" as far back as the 1920's to create such a box capable of displaying color motion pictures of musical performances on a screen. -
PinkPancreas — 11 years ago(March 04, 2015 02:48 PM)
They did not ever say what year it was bc they obviously wanted it to be timeless and dateless so to speak. Kind of like how you don't know what year Lord Of The Rings actually takes place. The setting in Streets Of Fire makes it feel like it's in the 1950's but there is a lot of modern style as far as clothes and music that make it seem like the 1980's. It is titled "A Rock & Roll Fable" so it's kind of like a fairy tale in that you aren't supposed to be able to actually identify a real time or place.