I wish I could have seen the day when young men acted like gents. I'm 29 now, but most boys I knew at 22 had no qualms about cursing like a sailor. Then again, neither did the young women, either. ::sigh::
shareYou hit upon the very charm of the film - a time that was nicer, when people were nicer. Sadly, though people were perhaps more polite, life moved at a slower pace, and families tended to be closer, it's still an idealized portrait of what we wish could be, rather than an accurate portrait of what once was.
I suspect Heaven is a Technicolor backlot where dreams like M.M.I.S.L. come true.
Oh, they were all cursing like sailors then too. They just had the training not to curse while at neighborhood parties.
shareYou have to remember, this movie came out during WWII when the public desperately needed to escape. Watching Meet Me in St. Louis, they could get lost in the nostalgia of a seemingly simpler time. The movie isn't the past as it was, but as it should have been and how people liked to think of it. Lines the one in the subject heading were probably included with that mind. I wouldn't be surprised if it was intended to be funny. I know it gets a laugh now. Swearing has been around forever.
A young girl passes / in a hurry. Hair uncombed. / Full of black devils. --Kelly Link
Times weren't nicer, people are just more willing to accept life as it is today. Rapes and murders still happened, homosexuals and foreigners were feared/outcast, etc. It depends on how you look at things. And people, most importantly.
CDEGFEDCC. (Shhh!)
They didn't seem to bother locking their doors.
Cool! Where I live, homosexuals and foreigners are kowtowed to instead of feared and outcast. Tell me where you live, 'cause I wanna move.
shareYou can blame that on Women's lib, where Women are free to act as crass as Men. So therefore Men don't have to treat Women with respect like they used to.
shareHa, ha, ha,...I got a good laugh with your post, even several years after you wrote it. The fact that women fought for equality is the reason why I hear men and women (and kids of both genders) drop the f-bomb is so outlandish.
Actually, kids mimic their parents and as long as parents refuse to teach their children how to behave in public (by themselves behaving in public), you will continue to hear inappropriate language. It's amazing to hear what comes out of the mouths of adults when they are in public and are with children.