DON'T BE SO HARD ON THE OTHER THREE

that one is timeless ... it's been used as far back as the 50's - probably before.
people never stopped using it.

(except for trendoids always looking for the new thing)

I dont think many people started using it until they saw their stars saying it in the flicks back then. More of a media influence than word-by-mouth popularity.

*trying to imagine a young John Connor teaching The Terminator to say "Chill Out!"*

Music was more of an influence than films back then. Everyone wanted to be a rock star.

one of the words i found interesting in how it changed was 'brother'

back in the 40's white people used it all the time ... i wonder when it transitioned to the black folks ..

70s. Blaxploitation flicks and Motown.

Really, there were so many other forces in play in the 60s, it's hard for me to ascribe everuything to films. I would tend to give the credit for "brother" to Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement, black power and The Black Panthers.

We didn't need the movies to influence us- we had the NEWS.

http://www.visiblevoicebooks.com/new...ond-773564.jpg
Russ Meyer's 'Beyond The Valley of The Dolls' overkills on the 60s lingo more than any movie I've ever seen. Funny thing is it was written by Roger Ebert and it sounds forced most of the time since he was a proclaimed nerd to begin with and assumed that was how cool people talked. Best line of all ? "This is my happening... and it freaks me out !"

i think movies were a huge influence the further back you go ..
especially Bogart's time, fairbanks, etc...

Music was just on records or the radio - you didnt see how they dressed or what they said (it was mostly big band)

but the movies then - were a huge influence .. especially when it came to smoking..

Media again.

Either way, the media did have a prominent role popularising a lot of lingo back then.