Bright Lights, Big City

Micheal J Fox is one of those stars I associate with the 80s
Even though he had a descent career in the 90s with The TV Series, Spin City, there’s just something about fox that seems to represent the 1980s.

His prime role as young republican, Alex P Keaton in Family Ties showcases a good staple of what 1980s america was about.

As Marty McFly in the Back To The Future series, of which the 1st movie celebrates the current teen culture while taking a look back at teen culture in the 1950s (The First time the culture got celebrated) When McFly went back in time.

Teen Wolf was a typical frat boy story  among many typical teen comedies of the 80s, of a teen who wanted to be popular by becoming a jock (If you ask me the way he did it is equivalent to steroids).
And of course Casualties of War allowed Fox to touch on all the subjects of the 1980s by doing a film about Vietnam, whose after effects persuaded a lot of film and Television in that decade.

The Secret to my Success which was what America was about back then, the corporate success story (mixed into a romantic comedy).

Bright Lights, Big City can be put under that category. Fox  plays a kid from a small town who fall for a wannabe actress and on a whim they get married and  move to New York City where he attempts to become a successful book writer. Instead he becomes a book editor and his wife leaves him when her career blows up and all he has to show for it is a nasty coke habit. Now most of the synopsis can be place in any time period but that coke habit, especially how it’s portrayed in this movie is totally 80s.

After seeing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, would have totally love to see the potential of this movie’s surrealism in the hands of Terry Gilliam.

It’s a great story about New York, but it could have been done better.