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You know it's a 'crazy '60s movie' when...


1.Everybody winds up in the swimming pool.
2.A multi-colored elephant walks through the house.
3.The house is full of foam.
Any others???

"Where is pancakes house?"

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Everybody dances as if they were on the set of Hullabaloo.

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That's right. I forgot that one.
Also: You can drink an insane amount of booze,and you're just the "funny guy".

"Where is pancakes house?"

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Sitar-tinged pop music starts playing...and there's not a sitar in the house!

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The lyrics to one of the songs playing has the word "groovy" in it an excess of three times.

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Most women are blondes.

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The men with hair are losing their toupees, and there's a character addressed as "Senator."

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Gavin MacLeod has hair.

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You have a pad equipped with gadgets you don't really need.

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Oscilloscopes are cool.



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A character has to tell another character "Hey, close the door man!"

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The main character wears white leather loafers.




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you have to walk on stepping stones thru a pool to enter the house...

the carpet is shagpile, baby

there is inexplicable abstract art on the walls...

the outdoors is indoors (plants)

there is a "conversation pit"

the ladies wear floor length colourful flowing dresses, and set solid hairdos

a central fireplace with a copper canopy...

you have a sexy maid, in a sexy outfit..

strawberry soup is served as entree and it is "lovely just now"

I love the 60s, and I LOVED that house... do want!

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the women's hair-dos include a rat's nest.

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All the girls, with long dresses or mini skirts wear full panties (granny panties) instead of thongs or bikinis.

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How awful for you !! Those "clothes" were not available yet, when women hadn't yet completely become considered as just for sex, although the mini didn´t help to create respect for women as persons.

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How awful for you !! Those "clothes" were not available yet, when women hadn't yet completely become considered as just for sex, although the mini didn´t help to create respect for women as persons.

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ITA , and I do want that house as well :)

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The main character is an Indian (the Beatles "Help") and wears a very wide paisley tie.

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It was a crazy '60s movie coz I saw it in a theater in Korat, Thailand in 1969 while stationed there during the Vietnam War. Before the movie started, the king's picture was shown on the screen along with the king's anthem and we all had to stand while it was played. Somehow, all the dialogue was removed from the film (yet all the sound effects remained), and the film was dubbed over with a Thai speaking, but not actually speaking the lines. He was explaining to the audience what was happening! Of course, I was well wasted at the time and the movie was, at so many levels, hilarious. At the end, they showed the king's picture again, played the other king's anthem, we all had to stand again, and the movie was over. Yes, that was one crazy '60s movie, alright...

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I wonder if the king himself ever saw this movie? As a jazz fan and an accomplished saxophone player, he would at least have enjoyed some of the music...

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when Peter Sellers is in it, and once more accidentally breaks someone's neck and is not even aware.

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When someone says: "The Russians will be here any minute!"

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When there's pot smoking jazz musicians (actually that's more of a 50s cliché, but still just about current in '68)

When people drink huge glasses of scotch all night and don't seem to get drunk

When there's a slightly spaced out woman dancing around on her own

When there's weird abstract art everywhere and open plan modernist houses

'Monsters? We're British!'

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Blake Edwards is directing it.


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