He had a "blink and you'll miss it" non-speaking role working with Brad Hamilton.
Posted on 07/25/2017 8:58:17 AM PDT by Skooz
Upon its release in 1982, no one would have expected Fast Times at Ridgemont High ever to receive the imprimatur of classic.
The movie was engineered to make a quick buck at a moment when Hollywood was giddy about its latest easy-money formula: Take some horny teens, put them in a broad, dumb comedy that invited teen boys to ogle bare breasts, and load the soundtrack with hit rock songs. Low-budget movies like Private Lessons (1981), The Last American Virgin (1982), Goin’ All the Way (1982), Private School (1983), Losin’ It (1983), Spring Break (1983), Bachelor Party (1984), and especially Porky’s (1982), which cost almost nothing but earned the equivalent of $320 million in today’s dollars at the North American box office, promised sexcapades in their titles and delivered.
Theater managers were often happy to look the other way as underage kids scrambled to get into these R-rated films.
Most of these efforts are too moronic to interest anyone who has weathered the teen-hormone tsunami, but despite its salacious title, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was different: a genuinely thoughtful and well-drawn collection of character portraits that stands on a higher plane than virtually any other teen movie of the era, including The Breakfast Club. Moreover, it concludes with a conservative message about the emotional perils of casual sex.
As part of the ongoing TCM Big Screen Classics series, which brings movies most of us know from TV back to multiplexes, Fast Times will screen in theaters on July 30 and August 2 to observe its 35th anniversary. It can also be streamed on HBO.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449793/fast-times-ridgemont-high-35th-anniversary-conservative-sex-comedy
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He had a "blink and you'll miss it" non-speaking role working with Brad Hamilton.
The real story here—is how absolutely innocent the 80s were compared to the open, acceptable degeneracy now.
Good points. But, I think the film showed the abortion as a negative experience.
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No , it was a positive or at best neutral experience in the film, her brother supported it , she was nonchalant. As I remember it the only negative surrounding it was the trashing of the boys car that couldn’t or wouldn’t pay for it, not supporting the abortion was met with ridicule and destruction of property... typical liberal behavior.
The 70s in many ways were even more degenerate. Compare and contrast Fast Times with "Dazed and Confused."
Anthony Edwards
“Dazed and Confused.”... That’s a 1990’s movie??
But it took place in 1976....and it nailed it.
I love that movie! I'm going to watch it tonight.
Kevin Klein is a very lucky man.
Anthony Edwards was in another of my favorite 80s movies, “Gotcha!”
Porky’s was great!
Too bad the ‘teens’ in the cast never made it big..................
I read that he stayed in character during the entire shoot.
Perhaps it was excellent practice for later-life douchebaggery.
Her brother didn't support it. She lied to him about where she needed to go and he dropped her off at a bowling alley. He watched her in his rear view mirror run to the clinic across the street. She was too ashamed to tell him the truth.
Being a good big brother, Brad knew Stacy was in the weeds all alone, he waited for her in the clinic parking lot. He kept his opinions to himself.
I don't know if I'd say she was nonchalant. She was a 15-year old girl. Life isn't an ABC Afterschool Special and in 1982, pregnant teen girls got abortions.
The difference is that the feminist left celebrates abortions as a rite of passage. This film showed the whole experience of casual teen sex as something that could have real-life negative consequences.
I agree with Niedermeyer. A negative - That was a new thing for many of us to experience in a movie, and it went the wrong way: her post-abortion life moved on just fine without a thought for the life snuffed out.
Spicoli's surfer buddies? Eric Stoltz (Mask) was one. Anthony Edwards ("Goose" from Top Gun) was the other. That was the "No Shirt, No Shoes, No DICE!" scene.
Nick Cage was also in the scene where Brad (Judge Reinhold) pulls his car into the parking lot on the first day of school. It's another "if you blink, you'll miss him" scene.
The scene where the pizza is delivered to Spicoli while he was in Mr. Hand's class? The delivery guy was the late Taylor Negron - who was Julio in Easy Money (another movie with Jennifer Jason Leigh), and played Milo in The Last Boy Scout. Taylor Negron's brother, Chuck, was one of the singers in Three Dog Night.
The Phoebe Cates "breast" scene? If you remember, the music during that scene is "Moving in Stereo" by The Cars. I can't hear that song without thinking of that scene. (Sigh)
In case it isn't obvious, I have seen this movie a few times...
And of course Anthony Edwards is Goose in Top Gun. Let’s not forget Forest Whitaker too. Movie has stood the test of time.
Me neither.
Forest Whitaker was great in “Good Morning, Vietnam.”
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