What I like about "A Christmas Story" is that it's throwback to the good old days of Hollywood, a nice family film, pure Americana. Such a film today would never get green-lighted. Liberals would scream bloody murder at Billingsley's character requesting a BB gun. And the scene where he kicking the bully's behind? Forget it - the school would make him attend sensitivity classes. And the dogs running around the house eating up the turkey? PETA would get mad as well.
I just about passed out when I was watching Leave It to Beaver a few months ago. The Beav was the only guy at an all-girl birthday party and went into the den to get away from them. There are rifles up on the wall and Beaver is looking at them intently. The father, also hiding out in the den to escape the girls, asks Beaver, "Do you like guns, son?" "Oh yes, I sure do!" You'd never see that today. I'm surprised they even let it play on re-runs.
things always were breaking back then.......
Deck the haws wit boughs of hawrry. Fah, rah, rah, rah rah. Rah, rah, rah rah.
For a brief time we had "neighbors" who decided to make their open front porch the doghouse for their doberman mutt. That damn dog barked from sunup to sundown. We never knew them but they were dubbed "The Bumpuses."
We LOVE this movie! It was the very first DVD we bought! It's a holiday tradition to watch it while putting the Christmas tree together and stringing the lights.
I'm glad Peter is doing so well. He's given so many people great memories because of that film.