The movies of YOUR life
First R rated movie
OK fellas - from a lady's perspective. I had a first date with a guy in high school - he took me to see Deliverance. I cannot tell you how stunned I was at what I saw - at that age I was unaware such "acts" as depicted on screen even existed. Needless to say, my young man apologized profusely for the remainder of our date.
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Yes, it was definitely "R". I went with my pal Warren. His mother had to come to the theatre with us and sign a release that she was giving the okay for these two minors to see this R-rated film. When my mother found out, she was displeased. I'm betting she gave Warren's mother a call...CoffeeDan wrote:Actually, THE GODFATHER was one of the first movies to get an "R" rating. It was even part of the 10-second TV spots:jondaris wrote:IIRC, The Godfather was rated "M" when it came out.
(Big voice booming) "The Godfather is now a movie. Rated R."
What's IIRC? I googled it and discovered "Interactive Illinois Report Card" and "Image and Identity Research Collective"; neither of which seems to have anything to do with Jack Valenti...
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Yeah, you are correct. What was throwing me is that i saw it in a theater when it came out -- I was just 13. I went with some kind of a group, but I can't remember just what. It may have been a summer filmmaking class that I took. I can't imagine a teacher doing something similar today, but it was a different time.Moraldo Rubini wrote: Yes, it was definitely "R". I went with my pal Warren. His mother had to come to the theatre with us and sign a release that she was giving the okay for these two minors to see this R-rated film. When my mother found out, she was displeased. I'm betting she gave Warren's mother a call...
What's IIRC? I googled it and discovered "Interactive Illinois Report Card" and "Image and Identity Research Collective"; neither of which seems to have anything to do with Jack Valenti...
IIRC is a net abbreviation that means "If I Recall Correctly." Which apparently, I did not.
"M" and "R" rated, children? What about "X" rated? Remember a little something called Midnight Cowboy? I suppose I've also seen a few X rated films more in the line of what you'd consider X rated, but I try not to remember them.
Anyway . . . ..
I haven't been able to come up with 25 life-altering films -- I've seen so many, and so many of them made various sorts of impressions, lasting and otherwise. However, I can come up with a few I saw when I was a girl that I still feel a fondness for, or that either scared me or changed my thought processes a bit. All of these are from the 50s and 60s, except for a few oldies I probably saw in the second-run movies around the neighborhood:
Moulin Rouge (the first film I have any memory of)
Hans Christian Andersen (All of Brooklyn worshiped Danny Kaye then)
Wizard of Oz
Little Women (’34 version - and our version of American Girl dolls)
Forbidden Planet (Yipes!! Well, I was just a kid, after all)
Invaders from Mars (Paranoia was the watchword of my youth)
Incredible Shrinking Man (Life-affirming sci fi, for a change)
King Kong (The original - made me a lifetime stop-action animation fan)
Everything with little Shirley Temple (These movies are all the same , so I count it as one)
Broken Arrow (Stewart/Chandler--lovely to look at, and Debra Paget, too)
Carmen Jones (I adored, and still do, Dorothy Dandrige)
For The First Time (Mario Lanza - ahhhh)
Summertime (Oh, those suave Italians. My relatives are Italian, but most aren't too suave, I'm afraid. This movie was a revelation to me.)
Parrish (Troy Donahue. 'Nuff said.)
Long, Long Trailer (90 minutes of Desilu, as directed by Minnelli. Yeah!)
Anyway . . . ..
I haven't been able to come up with 25 life-altering films -- I've seen so many, and so many of them made various sorts of impressions, lasting and otherwise. However, I can come up with a few I saw when I was a girl that I still feel a fondness for, or that either scared me or changed my thought processes a bit. All of these are from the 50s and 60s, except for a few oldies I probably saw in the second-run movies around the neighborhood:
Moulin Rouge (the first film I have any memory of)
Hans Christian Andersen (All of Brooklyn worshiped Danny Kaye then)
Wizard of Oz
Little Women (’34 version - and our version of American Girl dolls)
Forbidden Planet (Yipes!! Well, I was just a kid, after all)
Invaders from Mars (Paranoia was the watchword of my youth)
Incredible Shrinking Man (Life-affirming sci fi, for a change)
King Kong (The original - made me a lifetime stop-action animation fan)
Everything with little Shirley Temple (These movies are all the same , so I count it as one)
Broken Arrow (Stewart/Chandler--lovely to look at, and Debra Paget, too)
Carmen Jones (I adored, and still do, Dorothy Dandrige)
For The First Time (Mario Lanza - ahhhh)
Summertime (Oh, those suave Italians. My relatives are Italian, but most aren't too suave, I'm afraid. This movie was a revelation to me.)
Parrish (Troy Donahue. 'Nuff said.)
Long, Long Trailer (90 minutes of Desilu, as directed by Minnelli. Yeah!)
The two movies that come to mind that unfortunately mirror my life experience rather closely (when I was 20 years old about 18 years ago) are:
"Stella Dallas" with Barbara Stanwyck (from 1930's)
and "Madame X" with Lana Turner (from early 1960?)
Even though they make me sad, I enjoy them every time they are shown on TCM
"Stella Dallas" with Barbara Stanwyck (from 1930's)
and "Madame X" with Lana Turner (from early 1960?)
Even though they make me sad, I enjoy them every time they are shown on TCM