{"id":1989079,"date":"2025-08-31T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1989079"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:20:07","slug":"im-not-a-nostalgic-person-but-one-scene-in-austin-butlers-new-movie-really-got-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/im-not-a-nostalgic-person-but-one-scene-in-austin-butlers-new-movie-really-got-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not A Nostalgic Person, But One Scene In Austin Butler&#8217;s New Movie Really Got Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The latest Austin Butler movie, <em>Caught Stealing,<\/em> hit the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/upcoming-movies-2025-movie-release-130453990.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:2025 movie schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">2025 movie schedule<\/a> this weekend, and it did something that I didn\u2019t expect: it made me nostalgic. I am not, by nature, particularly nostalgic. In fact, all the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/wake-beetlejuice-beetlejuice-speaking-gen-181217044.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:throwbacks to Gen X culture;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">throwbacks to Gen X culture<\/a> lately have driven me a little nuts, even as a member of that generation. However, the new movie, directed by Darren Aronofsky, had me wistfully remembering my years living in the East Village, right around the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/caught-stealing-review-master-bleakness-162440842.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:time that Caught Steaming is set;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">time that <em>Caught Steaming <\/em>is set<\/a>, 1998.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Zoe Kravitz looking up in a dark place in Caught Stealing. \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/ffM4cxd32gkxSQ4F51U6DA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/cinemablend_388\/1890a03a560159d1bcd34269fcc4381a\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Credit: Sony<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Alphabet City And Dive Bars<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bulter plays Hank Thompson, a former baseball player (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/austin-butler-confirmed-caught-stealing-180421380.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:with a nice butt;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">with a nice butt<\/a>) whose potential career in the pros was sidelined by a knee injury. Hank is working as a bartender in a very typical East Village dive in the late \u201890s. He\u2019s clearly lost, drifting through his city life while remaining distant from the woman he\u2019s dating, played by Zoe Kravitz. It was an existence I knew all too well as someone who moved to New York City in 1999, one year after the movie was set, and spent a lot of my time in the same kind of dive bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eventually, I moved to the East Village from Midtown and lived a couple of blocks away from Avenue A. Alphabet City was still a little seedy, a little sketchy, but it was also on its way to what it is now, which is much cleaner, but much less exciting. Living down there wasn\u2019t as expensive as it is today, but it wasn\u2019t cheap, either. Finding bars that served cheap beer where I could befriend the bartender and score a free drink or two was important. Hank\u2019s bar in <em>Caught Stealing<\/em> perfectly represents that kind of place. It\u2019s like I already knew it well.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Matt Smith with a big orange and yellow punk mohawk as Russ in Caught Stealing.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Z2CTXC41ADbxWL3q1l2iNw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/cinemablend_388\/765207c5bbd83541bfc7b1b131f4f38f\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">One Brief Scene Really Got Me<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In one scene, Hank is seen walking along Avenue A and goes past where the original location of the legendary Kim\u2019s Video was located near 6th Street. For the movie, Aronofsky recreated the iconic sign that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAgZCVTOQXe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hung above the entrance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">hung above the entrance<\/a>, and in one brief moment, summed up life in the East Village at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, when I lived in the East Village, Kim\u2019s had moved a couple of storefronts down from the original location, and the mini-chain had moved the bulk of its collection to what was its most iconic location, Kim\u2019s Mondo on St. Mark\u2019s Street, a few blocks away. The location I knew best, located at 85 Avenue A, was two doors down from where it\u2019s seen in the movie. I used to drink in the basement at a bar called Route 85A. The bartender was a good friend, Michael Hogan, an actor who was most recently seen <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/television\/32-great-tv-and-movie-bartenders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:as the bartender;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">as the bartender<\/a>, Mark, in <em>Paradise<\/em>, which you can watch with a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/subscribing-hulu-price-included-everything-203141919.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hulu subscription;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Hulu subscription<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The reason it worked here for me is that nostalgia wasn\u2019t <em>the goal<\/em> of the movie. That\u2019s what I could use more of, not rehashing my youth with cheap shortcuts like so much of recent nostalgia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing The latest Austin Butler movie, Caught Stealing, hit the 2025 movie schedule this weekend, and it did something that I didn\u2019t expect: it made me nostalgic. I am not, by nature, particularly nostalgic. 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