Name the quintessential GenXers in each artistic endeavor
Posted by SaintWillyMusic@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 16 comments
My thoughts: Actor - Ethan Hawke Actress - Winona Musician (male) - Beck Musician (female) - Alanis Visual Artist - Banksy Author - ? Comedian - Bill Burr (Bill Hicks is too old) Director - Wes Anderson (Linklater is too old) Model - Cindy (maybe a stretch to call modeling art...) Movie - Heathers Album - Rage Against the Machine TV Show - The Real World
Good-Package7856@reddit
Dennis Leary
OlderNerd@reddit
Honestly I don't keep track. An actor dies and I think, "OMG they were so young" and I realize they were 90 but I remember them from a movie 50 years ago.
Evrytimeweslay@reddit
That’s a really white list
GreatGreenGobbo@reddit
Stop with the Rage Against the Machine. We aren't angsty teens anymore.
SaltyDogBill@reddit
This feels like homework.
Superb_Ant_3741@reddit
But maybe like homework from the non psychopath teacher who actually listened to us and didn’t get off on humiliating us in front of everyone, and let us have pizza parties during finals week and at the end of the year so we wouldn’t feel so shitty in our shitty oppressive suburban school with its shitty oppressive suburban curriculum.
Superb_Ant_3741@reddit
Superb_Ant_3741@reddit
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
Actress: Winona Ryder
Woman Musician: Lauryn Hill
Man Musician: Chris Cornell
Man Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Woman Author: Rebecca Walker
Woman Artist: Banksy*
Man Artist: Banksy*
Man Comedian: Eddie Murphy
Woman Comedian: Tracy Ellis Ross
Woman Director: Ava DuVernay
Man Director: Quentin Tarantino
Man Model: Tyson Beckford
Woman Model: Cindy Crawford
Television Show: SNL, original cast reruns
Movie: True Romance
*on the theory that Banksy is a collaboration of multiple artists
(based on this sub’s definition of GenX as everyone born 1961 to 1981)
SpacePirate-04@reddit
Maybe Bret Easton Ellis for author? Less Than Zero, American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction. Born in 64.
BrokenPinkyPromise@reddit
Ellis makes the most sense to me.
Latter-Village7196@reddit
Author - Stephen King
RCA2CE@reddit
Actor - John Cusack
Actress - Molly Ringwald
Male musician - Prince
Female musician - Blondie (Deborah Harry)
Artist - I’m a Banksy fan too
Comedian - Eddie Murphy
Director - John Hughes
Model - Paulina Porzikova
Movie - the breakfast club
TV Show - the wonder years
BununuTYL@reddit
I'd switch out Ethan Hawke for Robert Downey Jr.
CloakOfElvenkind@reddit
No idea if these ages fit, just what pops in my head:
Actors: Bruce Willis, Nicole Kidman
Musicians: Eddie Vedder, Bjork
Visual Art: Gary Larson
Comedian: Eddie Murphy
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Model: Cindy Crawford
Movie: Goonies
Album: OK Computer
TV show: He-Man
BrokenPinkyPromise@reddit
I’d swap out Burr for Chappelle, Beck for Ben Folds, and Rage for Ten, Anderson for Favreau or Edward Burns.
Good with Hawke, could make an argument for McConaughey.
porkchopespresso@reddit
I would say Tarantino more than Wes Anderson but otherwise I wouldn't really argue your list.