Name That Movie!

[BoSoxGal]

There is a war on between the silly suggestions and real efforts, so here is a quote that will help the latter more than the former:

Nothing from that first day I saw her and no one that has happened to me since, has ever been as frightening and as confusing. For no person I've ever known has ever done more to make me feel more sure, more insecure, more important and less significant.

This quote resonates very deeply with me, more from the book than the movie - so I am going to hazard a guess that the movie is:



Incidentally, I can still remember the concert on the green in Chatham where I picked up the used book for 10 cents from a vendor, and read it the next day while lying in the hammock on my grandma’s beachfront screened porch. It’s been one of my favorite books since then - I wasn’t older than 7 when I first read it - and I’ve read it dozens of times since. First saw the movie at 15; my dad had to get a membership at the classic movie rental store for me to be able to see it - it wasn’t available at the usual rental places. Now I own a digital copy. The movie is good, but nothing beats the book, which I still adore. This is my copy:

[Long Run]

Right you are BSG. Nantucket was too modernized by 1971 so they went to Mendocino which still looks very much the same. This area is Hollywood's New England coastal go-to, they just turn the camera around



Your turn, BSG.

[Lord Jim]

This area is Hollywood's New England coastal go-to

Sort of like the way Hollywood's go-to when they want to base a show in San Francisco is Vancouver...

[BoSoxGal]

The story isn’t set on Nantucket, it’s set on (fictional) Packett Island, the environs of which to me always sounded much more like southern coastal Maine than either Nantucket or the Vineyard.

As to the absurd phenomenon of filming New England coastal stories in California - the only people fooled by this are people who’ve never been to the New England coast, which is an entirely different world of flora and fauna than the lovely left coast. It’s a cheap Hollywood shortcut that undermines the telling of stories set in an entirely different milieu. Sticks in my craw . . .


I wasn’t planning on playing, but I had to take Summer of ‘42. Give me a short time to provide a satisfactory seasonally appropriate clue.

[Big RR]

I own the movie as well--I've always enjoyed watching it. It was from a different time when movies were driven by stories and characters rather than loud noises and extravaganza fights. A time when even the music in the movie was chosen with care, as were the individual scenes. Indeed, I had the buying condoms scene in mind the first time I went to a drug store to get them myself (they were kept in a drawer behind the counter and you had to ask for them.

[BoSoxGal]

Just did some Google searching and learned the following: the real life events in Herman Raucher’s youth that inspired Summer of ‘42 did, in fact, occur on Nantucket Island. Additionally, this is one case where the film was written before the novel - and yet still, the book is better!

[Big RR]

I don't recall reading the book; were there big differences in the book/movie storylines or characters?

[RayThom]

Ah, "Summer of '42." I, too, have the VHS tape somewhere in my closet.

Jennifer O'Neill was probably my one and only "Hollywood crush," one which I developed after seeing the film. The fantasy heightened due to the fact that she wasn't much older than myself -- she was attainable. I could relate because I was once "discretely" seeing a friend of mine's older sister who's husband was killed in Viet Nam. In retrospect I referred to our caring companionship as my "summer of '67" which, of course, I somewhat borrowed from "42" some years later. Good times, wondrous memories. And then life got in the way.

Anyway, a few years ago I saw Jennifer on TV and I still saw her as the crush I once had. She aged well, but, unfortunately, she seemed affected and aloof -- much like many Hollywood actors who, years ago, were being lionized, and fawned over. I haven't felt much about her since. She was now so much older than me. Thanks for the memories, Jennifer.

I still can't get the music out of my head.

[BoSoxGal]

I don't recall reading the book; were there big differences in the book/movie storylines or characters?

The only BIG difference is that the book makes it fairly clear that Dorothy is under the influence when she entertains Hermie the evening she receives telegram about her beloved husband's fate. Apparently in an interview in the early 2000s, the real Herman Raucher made it clear that the real Dorothy was essentially shit-faced drunk - which I think is much more in keeping with the character she is presented as than the movie depiction that seems to show her with her wits intact. (Although I suppose the mental shock of a telegram like that could alter a person's inhibitions as much as a large quantity of alcohol.)

And, of course, the internal perspectives of Hermie on all the characters in his life can't possibly be captured in film as well as they were written by Raucher. The book is an easy and enjoyable read, and would be a good beach read even now - so I'd recommend checking it out at your local library or getting a copy on http://www.abebooks.com for $4 and enjoying the experience.

[Long Run]

the real life events in Herman Raucher’s youth that inspired Summer of ‘42 did, in fact, occur on Nantucket Island.

Plus, if they set it on an island, you can have believable ocean sunsets

[Big RR]

time to resurrect this diversion, since no one has posted a movie, I'll try:

A: What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck-fuckety-fuck-fuck-fuck.

B: How would you like to go see the school counselor?

A: How would you like to suck my balls?

B: [furiously] What did you say?

A: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Actually, what I said was...

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS?

C: Holy shit, dude.

I had thought it was a fairly recent movie, but it looks like it's 19 years old already.

[BoSoxGal]

I thought the thread needed a summer vacation, which is why I didn’t post. (Also running out of creative inspiration for quotes . . . )

[Big RR]

OK, I can withdraw mine if you'd rather post something; otherwise, I cede my next turn to you.

[Long Run]

I thought the thread needed a summer vacation, which is why I didn’t post.

Wouldn't it have been better if you just said that?

[BoSoxGal]

Oh no BigRR, I was just explaining my failure to post. Please proceed with your quote.

And LR, sometimes a thread just runs away in the night on a spontaneous vacation with no prior announcement. It’s not a capital offense or anything.

[Big RR]

and I dragged it back, kicking and screaming, and told it to get the hell to work!

[Long Run]

It’s not a capital offense

That was E.E. Cummings major crime against the English language.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Big RR, I googled the most offensive movies of all time and guess your quote must come from "Birth of a Nation". Is that close?

[Lord Jim]

A: What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck-fuckety-fuck-fuck-fuck.

B: How would you like to go see the school counselor?

A: How would you like to suck my balls?

B: [furiously] What did you say?

A: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Actually, what I said was...

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS?

C: Holy shit, dude.

[Big RR]

Jim--No, butyou're getting close; but Jimmy said it to old many Potter after he paid off the Building and Loan's debt with the miracle money, and right before he kicked the shit out of him. That was the original ending, but Hollywood dropped because of the Hayes Code.