Historical Cinema
I tried generating this list with various LLMs. ChatGPT did the best and Claude got really confused by the question. Gemini did alright.
| Film | Years since release | Years between release and setting |
|---|---|---|
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | 45 | 45 |
| Back to the Future (1985) | 41 | 30 |
| Apollo 13 (1995) | 31 | 25 |
| The Sting (1973) | 53 | 37 |
| Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | 64 | 44 |
| Gone with the Wind (1939) | 87 | 78 |
| The Great Race (1965) | 61 | 57 |
| The Big Short (2015) | 11 | 8 |
| The Social Network (2010) | 16 | 7 |
Each of these films is now more distant from us than its historical setting was from the film’s own release. That is, the time between the historical setting and the making of the film is less than the time between the making of the film and today.
