YEAR: 2001
DIRECTORS: Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll
PINBALL MODEL(S): Dr. Dude (1990, Midway Mfg.)
GAME LOCATION: Youth recreation center
NOTES: While yesterday's post dealt with the presence of pinball machines in celluloid taverns, today's post concerns the relationship between pinball and youth. Post-war French youth culture and the champions of the nouvelle vague are due a great deal of credit for concretizing the pinball/youth relationship as an immediately readable filmic prop (though, US and Italian filmmakers were known to deploy this pairing as well).
Modern cinema finds this pairing to be no less useful when rendering a space as being devoid of adult authority (such as this youth-center scene in 25 Watts).
