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Oh, the irony of this movie!

posted 9 years ago by !!!deleted!!! (49761343)
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Man, were people in the 1960s were naive! This movie was made at the height of the Indian craze, when the counterculture romanticised India and Eastern culture in general as being so much more spiritual and enlightened than the West. And of course, going by all the massive problems facing India and other parts of Asia today, we know that this couldn't be furthest from the truth.

And then there's Claudine Longet, who was presented as the epitome of innocence and purity when in real life, she wound up "accidentally" killing her boyfriend several years later and basically fell into obscurity afterwards. 

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[–] holbrookp 9 years ago

I agree. I was surprised when Bakshi sees how the elephant is painted and tells them they have to wash him clean. They'd gone to a lot of work to paint it like that and were at the height of their party, so I think it'd be more likely they'd get around his request rather than comply with it. Later they'd wash it but not yet. I know this doesn't fit in with what you said but it's just a strange shift in the partiers' attitude about their "star" elephant.

I loved the tagline of this movie: "If you've ever been to a wilder party, you're under arrest!"

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