Posted on 12/15/2005 6:04:54 PM PST by presidio9
Yes, it was grand having fathers like that. My dad has been gone ten years, and I still miss him. I think I love this movie so much because it reminds me so much of him, and of my family during those years of the early 50's.
Thanks for that pic of the old man holding his broken award....the look on his face is priceless...Darren Mcgavin, as an actor, can say more with the looks on his face, than a lot of other actors can say in a whole movie with dialogue...
The scene where Randy is acting like a litte piggy at the table, when the mom tried to get him eat, and his face is smeared with Mashed potatoes, is priceless...the old man looks at Randy, and without saying a word, just gives him a look of absolute disgust...
I found no language offensive.
I am mystefied at your speaking of the profanity in the movie. I can't remember any, except for the muffled noises of the Old Man, and none of it was real swearing.
Do you realize kid stuck his tongue on flag pole in that movie it now Porno star LOL!
BTW going be TBS this year 24 hours of Christmas story
I feel exactly the same way...my dad has been gone for 16yrs now, and he is so missed...Growing up during those early 50s years were wonderful...my dad was quite the camera addict, so I have tons and tons of pictures of him and our family during the whole time we were growing up...those pics are so precious to me, and when I get them out and look at them, I am so grateful, that I grew up when I did, and had the parents and family that I did...
Like most boys of that era, one of my important chores was removing clinkers from the furnace with a long rod-like implement that had metal claws to grab them. I'd deposit them in a fireproof bucket and haul them to the alley when they cooled off for the garbage truck -- they were heavy!
Every night after school I had to check the coal hopper and fill it with coal slack from the coal room next to the furnace. The hopper had an electric worm gear that fed coal to the furnace at a steady rate -- most of the time. But occasional belches of nasty-smelling black sulferous smoke pouring through the heat registers are a vivid memory too. People today would be aghast at the smoke pollution. We often had foggy overcast and with everyone heating with high-sulfer coal the poisonous black smoke was heavy. We didn't notice -- warmth was a lot more important than pollution during those frigid Idaho winters.
F*ck and cr*p
What on earth are you talking about? Are you talking about the same movie we are? There are no curses in "A Christmas Story". The only allusion to a curse is when Ralphie "says" the F word and has his mouth washed out with soap, though of course it's not said in the film. "Fudge" is substituted. And the father apparently yells at the dysfunctional furnace but all you hear is gibberish like "rackafracka dadgum". "A Christmas Story" is just about one of the most wholesome movies I can think of. I'm truly puzzled.
I remember two. "Smartass" and "sonavabitch." MILD by today's standards.
My favorite thing about the movie was his melodramatic fantasies - reminds me of me at that age! I just knew some day......
The old man had muffled noises in the beginning but by the middle of the movie some were un muffled and the children were vulgar.
Same here. They did have him say "fudge" only he really said something else.
His father was constantly cursing but it was made up nonsensical words.
"Deck the halls with boughs of howrrry
Fa rah rah rah rah----"
My dad often said that we didn't appreciate how clean the air was (in the 60's) from when he grew up. Indianapolis mostly heated with coal until oil-burners (and later gas and electric furnaces) came on the market. He said some days you could hardly see downtown, the coal smoke was so thick.
Perhaps. The words were loud and clear on our version and my children were asking me whether we should turn off the cd.
Thanks for that. I really love Shepherd's work. I'll tune in.
"THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the 'F-dash-dash-dash' word!!!"
Gosh, I am surprised to hear this...people during the 50s used 'colorful' language, I heard it often...
I really dont understand why you wanted the characters to redeem themselves or redeem themselves for what?
This is a wonderful movie, and the colorful language used, was not done to shock or anything like that...people of that time, especially many of the men, did talk like that...my dad did, and I never thought that he should redeem himself for it...
Sorry, but I just dont see this the way you do...
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