For a period of about ten years there, Michael Douglas really deserved his own category of film. He was practically a genre unto himself. He starred in the sort of movies that middle-class couples took seriously enough to go out and hire a baby sitter for the night, and then after the film, would sit down over a bottle of wine and debate the "adult" themes the movies explored.
This streak of Douglas' stretched from the mid 80's into the 90's, and it wasn't unusual for these films to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine, as they were often considered to be transmitters of ascendant cultural trends. They were alarmist in their way, fueling the anxious sensibility of those who looked to Time Magazine to inform them of what was going on in America. In short, the movies of Michael Douglas captured a kind of zeitgeist and catered to middle class fears,...
This streak of Douglas' stretched from the mid 80's into the 90's, and it wasn't unusual for these films to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine, as they were often considered to be transmitters of ascendant cultural trends. They were alarmist in their way, fueling the anxious sensibility of those who looked to Time Magazine to inform them of what was going on in America. In short, the movies of Michael Douglas captured a kind of zeitgeist and catered to middle class fears,...
- 10/25/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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