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I don't even know what to say about this movie
shareHow about "unintentional comedy"?
shareUnintentional? It was totally intentional.
shareIt's always hard to judge a filmmaker's intent without any background info, but I do suspect that the intent was neither comedy nor camp.
I suspect the intent was mainly to express annoyance with the youth of the day, and to show hot babes in minimal clothing.
Those young girl's belly buttons were showing in full view, in a film aimed at adolescents. Do you know off-hand if that was still scandalous to reveal in those days, at least in the States?
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Belly buttons weren't scandalous in 1965, but they were still new and exciting. Abdomen-baring bikinis had only been around for a couple of years, and IMHO they were the only reason anyone ever watched those stupid "beach party" movies with Frankie and Annette.
And you couldn't show ladies' belly buttons on TV in the mid-sixties, did you know there was a rule against it? I learned that from my obsessive youthful study of "Star Trek (TOS)"! When they had a belly-dancer character appear on one episode she had to have a jewel in her navel, because showing the actual belly button was against TV rules. Amazing the idiotic stuff that sticks in a person's brain.
Abdomen-baring bikinis had only been around for a couple of years, and IMHO they were the only reason anyone ever watched those stupid "beach party" movies with Frankie and Annette.
The first one that started the craze, though, wasn't stupid and I'm talking about 1959's "Gidget." See this post for details from that movie: https://moviechat.org/tt0052847/Gidget/5b0b192d6675d80014cad4bc/The-first-beach-flick-with-surprising-MINDFOOD-minus-the-goofiness share
Seems like over time, each generation after the next here in the States is becoming less prudish. Remembering trivia such as that is what gets conversations going and could even come in handy one day should you be on a game show. I'm thinking Jeopardy!
I was gifted the Original Star Trek late series last year, so what you tell me is a real attention-getter.
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Enjoy your Trek!
And yes, one of the unintended effects of being a movie buff is that you tend to to learn more about 20th century fashion than anyone needs to know.
They covered Barbara Eden’s belly button on “I Dream of Jeannie”
shareI suspect the intent was mainly to express annoyance with the youth of the day, and to show hot babes in minimal clothing.
It shows dudes too, as far as that goes. I think the intent was simply to make a fun, stylish Grade B flick that would be attractive to the burgeoning 60's counter-culture & beyond. share
The film takes liberties with how the young peoples' puberty ties into not conforming with authority. A good way to appeal to the counterculture while actually expressing the repercussions of it at the same time. Not saying the ideas behind the liberation movement were totally flawed, but rather, not without faults concerning hypocrisy which could have upended the cause.
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Those "kids" were not pubescent!
They were all old enough to drive, at least, and frankly they all looked about 25-30.
There's nothing worse than adults acting like children pretending to be adults! (^ ^)
On a more serious note: there's a tendency for parents to expect their grown children to behave like adults (as it should be), then not actually treat their young adults as mature, complaining about it without seeing the irony to the issue.
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A quick check on the kids, and discounting Ron Howard since he was so young, the ages of the actors ranged from 19 - 25 with the average age 21 1/2. I never saw anything that suggested they were "kids" in the sense of high school age. To me they were presented as kids meaning counter culture kids and their "good" counterparts; that is young college age kids and they fit into that age bracket.
And as for "old enough to drive", that would be around 16, so why do you imply that means they were "old."
FYI actors lie about their ages a lot, li still think some of the "kids" were 30 or so.
Certainly they were too old for the leniency and forgiveness shown to kids of high school age or younger.
Unless you have evidence they have lied (I got their DOB from IMDB) this comment dips into conspiracy. (by that I mean, no matter what facts someone produces, there is "something" going on we don't know about.)
shareEr, I think you're taking my remarks just a little too seriously!
This movie is ludicrous, and the fact that the giant "kids" look thirty is just one ridiculous thing among many, so I commented on it.
I didn't mean to sound so serious. But to me the characters didn't look anywhere close to 30. I saw them in the 18-22 age range. Some where older, but the average is where I saw them.