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Lots of Kissing in this Movie

posted 19 years ago by billgbg
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I bet this material as a play, worked great. The performances are "big" and situations are big too. However in the theater, I felt rather uncomfortable watching the couple kiss so much. This was for a general 1967 audience, so you have infants, grandparents, teens and everybody else next to you. There's no music, just silence as the couple grind on each other. That's neat to me now, but when seeing this I didn't want to be next to my parents. I actually moved to another seat.
I hear jokes in the dialogue, but they're not funny. Compare this with Saks' other job, The Odd Couple, and you'll see how funny that latter one turned out.
This one has sexy people in it, but funny? no.

As a time capsule for Fonda, it's great 'cuz she's so nearly hyperventilating in every scene. But those lips... imagine in every American film, if there was a solid twenty minutes of kissing. Donja think the world would be a better place?

[–] thatsnumberwang 19 years ago

Make up your mind do you hate the kissing or don't you. I feel badly that you couldn't handle watching people kiss next to your parents...because parents should kiss!!! It shouldn't be this weird thing.

[–] billgbg 19 years ago

What can I say, it was a childhood trauma. Since then I've become a world class kissing observer. I even belong to Cherie Bird's kissing newsletter based in Seattle.
I love it when I'm doing it/hate it when others are doing it.

[–] BlondeIsBetter 18 years ago

Oh gosh, I guess you would be more comfortable watching people get killed like in normal modern films...

[–] billgbg 18 years ago

There's lots of kissing in this, and nobody will talk me out of it...but Brandon Tartikoff, the ex-NBC exec for programming the network, was a theater usher in 1967. When the movie played in theaters he'd see it. He commented about that feature of the movie too.

No, kissing is wonderful and it' back, in fact. The word "makeout" has returned big time. Everyone knows what it means--it still means the same thing it always did. My thread on "Grey's Anatomy" has won the most replies of any thread in months. It has the word "Makeout" in it--which I deliberately used. Makeout is a fun word.

If there's going to be a lot of uncontrolled sensuality onscreen, I don't want to see it unprepared with groups of people around me. But if anybody wants to send me their kissing photos, go ahead.

[–] xErikadoll 17 years ago

Yes, there is a lot of kissing scenes, but they do get uncomfortable around your parents. I, myself, love the kissing scenes. Fonda was very beautiful in this movie and I didn't mind seeing her kiss.

[–] billgbg 17 years ago

Yes, those scenes make this a hot, worthwhile film. It's a sixties time capsule unintentionally as well. Yes it's facsinating.

[–] LeopardSkinPill-BoxHat 17 years ago

It's a great film in general- the kissing helps. Especially because it's Robert Redford!

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