Posted on 07/25/2017 8:58:17 AM PDT by Skooz
Isnt there like 6 Oscars among the cast? Not to mention how many people in that movie went on to have good careers.
Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards were the stoner buddies.
The precise turning point was Spring, 1993. With the George H.W. Bush FCC finally neutered and 60's radicalism ascendant, television and film began a frantic race to the bottom to see how much obscenity they could get away with under the benign gaze of Bill Clinton - and the pendulum has never swung back.
Dazed and Confused.
When I saw that movie for the first time, I was convinced someone from my old high school had written it.
That was my high school, down to amazing details.
When the movie ended, I scoured the credits, just knowing one of my old high school buds had made it. I was genuinely surprised not to recognize any of the names.
I cannot think of that scene without Moving in Stereo in my head. Classic.
Also wrote a cover story for Rolling Stone at age 16, to later become the movie “Almost Famous”.
Also directed, wrote, and produced "Jerry Maguire".
Jamie Lee Curtis trading places has to be right up there.
Crowe is one of my favorite film makers.
“Almost Famous” is one of my all-time favorites. It’s a close to perfect film.
“Elizabethtown” is also great, with one of the best soundtracks ever. I thought “Vanilla Sky” was brilliant.
I even enjoyed “We Bought a Zoo.”
An old fashioned love of family and traditional values underlies all of his movies.
There is nothing conservative about it.
It delivers the message that “the good and worthwhile boyfriend is the one who pays for your abortion”.
Agreed, definitely in the top 5.
Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria, simply for the surprise.
Exactly.
“Theater managers were often happy to look the other way as underage kids scrambled to get into these R-rated films.”
Indeed. I was 13 years old when i went to see this very film with a few fellow school mates. Being underaged one of my friends asked the older gentleman standing in line ahead of us if he would pretend to be our “guardian.” (No one under the age of 17 will be admitted without a parent oe guardian - all posters of R rated movies). The guy was amused and agreed to it.
As we bought our tickets and went inside to see the movie, to my surprise none of the theater employees ever asked us our ages or who our guardian was. It was the very first time I learned that the movie theater owners, managers, and employees didnt give a damn about underaged kids seeing R rated movies in their theaters. From then on i went to see R rated films whenever I wanted.
If you are a gator, you must have loved the original Porky’s.
“But it was true to life, well written, and hilarious.”
According to Bob Clark, creator and director of Porkys, the lassie scene was based on a true incident he witnessed in his youth. He was at the swimming pool of an exclusive country club. A young 20 something socialite walked into the locker room area with some good looking guy. After a couple of minutes, the sounds of her screaming in ecstasy could be heard all over the swimming pool area. Everyone was laughing. Finally, the sounds coming from tbe locker room stopped and she emerged back to the swimming pool, not knowing everyone heard her and knew what she did.
According to Bob Clark, creator and director of Porkys, the lassie scene was based on a true incident he witnessed in his youth. He was at the swimming pool of an exclusive country club. A young 20 something socialite walked into the locker room area with some good looking guy. After a couple of minutes, the sounds of her screaming in ecstasy could be heard all over the swimming pool area. Everyone was laughing. Finally, the sounds coming from tbe locker room stopped and she emerged back to the swimming pool, not knowing everyone heard her and knew what she did.
“She is forced to share her secret with her brother (the Judge Reinhold character) so he can pick her up at the abortion clinic.’
This description of that scene is a bit off. She lied to her brother about having a date at a bowling alley (which is across the street from an abortion clinic) and needing a ride there. So he drives her and drops her off at the bowling alley. As he drives away, he sees her in his rearview mirror racing across the street to the clinic.
After Stacey had her abortion, she emerges from the clinic only to find her brother waiting there in the parking lot with his car. He asks her, “since when do you bowl?”. She asks him not to tell their parents, which he doesnt.
Even then, in the most rebellious of circles, many things still held a taboo.
Not so today. I'd argue the degenerate culture is, by far, the mainstream. It's celebrated, heralded, conveyed as normal in entertainment, pushed on your children at every turn and to even suggest many of these behaviors are less than ideal can and will get you ostracized.
As one of the commenters on the original article says:
In this week’s edition of “Everything We Like Must Be Conservative”....
I’m a big fan of Fast Times, though Dazed and Confused is closer to home since it takes place in 1976, the year I graduated from high school. Went to lots of field parties and knew lots of guys and girls who were just like the characters in that film.
I also loved the TV series The Wonder Years, since I was just about the same age as the characters during the years when it takes place—1968 to 1973.
One thing all 3 have in common is a fantastic soundtrack.
A little footnote on Porky’s. It was the only reason “A Christmas Story” was made. The studios didn’t think director Bob Clark had enough skill to make a holiday film, but after Porky’s was a box office hit, they gave him the green light (and the funding) for his Christmas film.
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