A piece of pop culture can mark a paradigm shift, even when it has no idea it’s doing so. (The lack of calculation is part of why the paradigm shifts.) That’s what happened in the summer of 1978, w…
A piece of pop culture can mark a paradigm shift, even when it has no idea it’s doing so. That’s what happened in the summer of 1978, when the movie version of “” came out. It ruled the way that “Saturday Night Fever” had just six months before, with the electric presence of John Travolta fueling both films. But “Saturday Night Fever” was a fiery and galvanic movie in a way that no one could miss.
Watching “13,” you see how a certain school of upbeat Broadway exuberance zigged and zagged, from the pastel explosion of “Grease” to the pop-musical exhilaration of “Rent” to the “High School Musical” films and other Disney Channel song-and-dance confections like “Zombies” right up through this powdered-sugar saga of middle-school angst. Is the movie an “Afterschool Special” on happy pills? Absolutely.
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