FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Ok, we're 40 minutes into this movie so far. So what's it about? So far, nothing has happened yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 40 minutes into Gone With the Wind, the War was on, Scarlett?s first husband was dead, and the Yankees were heading toward Atlanta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeeteeze Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 TCM showed "Stepford Wives"? Not as a camp classic? I'm surprised. Rosemary's Baby it is NOT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 It's on right now. It has been on for 54 minutes and nothing has happened yet. It just shows life in the suburbs. So what? The lady said, ?Does it ever bother you that the only organization in Stepford is sexually archaic ?? Is that what she said? What does that mean? Does that mean the Federal Government had not yet banned men from having men's clubs yet, by 1975? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 *It just shows life in the suburbs.* Ah, but not life as we know it .. heh heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 >Ah, but not life as we know it .. Yes, this is NORMAL life in the suburbs, in an upper-middle class neighborhood in a small town community in the Northeast, somewhere not too far from New York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Fairfield CT, to be exact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 Yeah, so? So when is something going to happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Katharine Ross needs to get acclimatized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 The husbands work hard to support their families and to be able to buy an expensive home in that neighborhood. The wives are a little bored. Ok... now the first joke... a black family is moving in, and they had the first Chinese restaurant around, so they are ?liberal?, Lol, like the suburban family in ?The President?s Analyst?. Lol, so this is a comedy film? With the first joke finally coming 1 hour and 4 minutes into the film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Oh, so you've never seen this .. want me to tell you the "secret" and then you can turn it off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 No, don?t tell me the ?secret?. I?ll tell you the ?secret?. You know what this is? It?s a liberal-writer?s big-city-dweller?s attack on middle-class suburban life. And now I know why so many people in San Francisco raved about this film when it first came out in 1975. San Francisco in the mid-?70s.... freako city, women with hairy armpits. Guys with liberal checkered polyester leisure suits and long sideburns, and Jane Fonda giving anti-Nixon speeches. There is NOTHING in the water. The neighborhood is all ANGLO, hard-working upper-middle class, thus no crime, no hippies, no dopers, no street bums and no "others". I've been in places like that. I've lived in places like that. If people want to live in downtown Manhattan or Detriot or L.A., then that's fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 Yes, that is completely correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 These two ladies are complaining about: 1) having nothing to do all day, while their husbands work and slave all day long, 2) having to do ?housework??? Well, doh? Why don?t they just go on a cross country crime spree and become Thelma and Louise? Or they could just get a divorce, go to college, and become attorneys themselves and work for a living like their husbands do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobitz Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 *40 minutes into Gone With the Wind, the War was on, Scarlett?s first husband was dead, and the Yankees were heading toward Atlanta.* Hey, that sounds like an exciting movie. I should be watching it. Someone actually raved about Stepford when it came out? I haven't checked the box offices figures, but I remember it as being universally panned. And I was reading the San Francisco papers then. Seems as I recall it's treatment of sexual equality themes as being considered pretty cliched even then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 I think you're confusing duh with doh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 Hey, you know what this dame needs? She needs to go to work and support the family and pay the big house note, and let her husband lounge around the house all day and play around with his photography hobby and do nothing but grip and complain. This woman is a selfish greedy neurotic. She?s talking to the art gallery owner like a child. This woman is a ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 The Dame says: ?Her kitchen was sparkling! And stop talking to me like I?ve gone crazy!? She?s having panic attacks. She needs Xanax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 There is kwih-neen in the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 I remember when this story was in the news in the early '70s... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905404,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 I stand corrected. This movie was filmed in El Paso, not Fairfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 The guy needs to dump this woman, and the woman needs to go out into the world on her own and support herself. She evidently was pampered as a child and now she is just bored. I?ll bet when they lived in New York she went to museums, theaters, fancy restaurants, photography shows, etc., etc., all at her husband?s expense. Now there is no theater, no museums, no places exciting to goof off in the suburbs, and she?s bored. I'm glad TCM is showing this film. I never would have watched it on a channel with commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073747/locations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 How to make good coffee for your husband: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 Lol, this final sequence is funny. This is just like the small city I last lived in. When they put in the new super-Wal-mart store, the wives of the doctors, lawyers, etc got all dressed up like this to go shopping. It was a hoot. The rest of our wives wore more casual clothes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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