The 60s Were A Time Of Change Of People

4. What is the difference between a.. The 60s were a time of change for people in many ways, but a major theme that can be seen across many of the movies we watched in class is this sense of bereavement of religion. This is for many reasons, but some big ones are the effects of war, and the upcoming of never seen before technology. In the 60s, there was this sort of idea that people didn’t want to be told what to do anymore. This sensibility that you have thoughts and they can be right, even if they aren’t aligning with what the president or even God has to say. People were virtually feeling pretty let down by following these figure heads blindly, and they wouldn’t do it anymore. This brought on idols in other senses, for example the Beatles.
They are these sacrosanct men, and there’s even this sense that they can do no wrong in this world. No matter their actions, there won’t be consequences. This was prevalent to me at the scene where the Beatles were being chased by the police. The scene could have been an intense one, but because these are The Beatles being chased, there is no sense of worry in the matter. Even when they run inside the police station and run back out, there is never a reality of thinking these boys are going to jail. The scene is so funny, because it’s so ridiculous. The Beatles being thrown in jail when they were this big would have been seen as sacreligous to many people. This idolhood of the Beatles is not because of them being larger than life over the top personalities. This idea of them being so popular because of how normal they seemed. What really brought this idea to light for me is in the Howard article when he pulls a quote from Brian Epstein, “Everything about the Beatles was right for me—their kind of attitude to life, the attitude that comes out in their music and their rhythm and their lyrics, and their humor, and their own personal way of behaving—it was all just what I