Welcome back to the personality hacker podcast. My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. Do you remember back in the 1980s when we were kids growing up in Tonia when it seemed like every

movie had a montage in the middle of it. Remember this? Like usually there was a

main character that had a challenge come up in their life and they went into this montage experience where there's quick cuts of them building a skill or training for something, not all movies, but a lot of 80s movies had this in it

usually cheesy music was playing behind it driving like you know scinty music and

like Rocky he was building skill to go box better, right?

And every movie seemed to have this.

I don't see movies anymore having this montage

of a character training.

In fact, a lot of movies are just,

the character characters already awesome

and they just do cool things they don't have to go and train or be like

excellent to this montage experience.

I think Rocky was the first movie that did that and I think it became a trope that a lot of other

movies in the 80s pulled on and then it probably just like with any fad it gets too much and

then in order to stay fresh you pull away from those you know those

tropes or those techniques but what what was nice about the 80s skill

development montage is it gave you a snippet into what went into whatever it was they were attempting to accomplish.

And we were kids like we're of a generation like we're at the very tail end of Gen X. And I think that Gen Xers got a lot of messaging about what you have to do, what what blood sweat and tears have to go into

something in order to make it happen yeah and I think that I don't I'm not going

to blame it on a lack of 80 style montages but I do think that we started giving a

message to younger people that may have been a piece of propaganda that we for all intents and purposes wanted to be a

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