Ever notice Oliver Stone makes the settings of his places look hostile? Dallas was portrayed as cold, sterile, and full of working class neo-Nazi bigots, corporate bureaucratic types, and generally dumb rednecks. And the skyline gave a sleek look of the future.
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Am I the only one who realizes that a lot of these places were a lot more backwards in the 1980s?
Seriously. I live in California, in the 1980s placed like Garden Grove and Pomona were these white trash hillbilly heavens when guys with mullets hit on each others' sisters and fought dogs and drank at bars that looked ready to fall down. Holt Avenue in the 1980s was scary. The whole town was on welfare.
Now of course welfare has been dramatically reduced and California land values have soared and the area is cleaned up. But the point is in the 1980s a lot of cities were cesspools as displayed. I mean, go back and look at the crime rates in the 1980s, they're shocking.
Anyway, I've been to Dallas and it still seems like the kind of place where they kick the crap out of for not thinking the same things they do.
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Here it is 2015. Dallas is still a sleek, menacing, futuristic looking city still populated with dumb white trash in its working classes, but nevertheless, it's neighbor Austin 200 miles south is a totally different world; a heaven on Earth many white middle-class young adults want to party their asses off and flip the bird to mainstream society!
shareOliver Stone, bigot that he is, does his best to paint those he despises as backwards, ignorant and stupid. Stone is a despicable steaming pile.
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