Favorite scene/image

When they are driving down Hollywood Boulevard, they pass an old theatre that was there, and a cop car has got somebody pulled over on the right-

I lived up the street off to the side there at Grace street in the '80's- I could see the Hollywood sign from my window-

and I was once in that theatre, and this old man started masterbating in his seat, so I moved to another place and he followed me, and then again, until I had I had to stand up and say very loudly: "Stop following me around and masterbating"

Ugh..

The great part about this movie for me, was that's exactly how it was when I first lived in Hollywood, even though it's changed much since. It was one of the cheapest places in L.A. to live, and you could find an apartment easily-

it was gritty, but I was young and found it exciting. Then it started filling up, and after the '94 quake especially, and after they built the Kodak Center,

it got more expensive as time passed, and I guess more like the valley itself.



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My favorite image is when Julie is upstairs in the bathroom at the party and she is freshening up her lipstick, just quietly reflecting on her conversation with Randy and how they connected... in the mirror, she just looks so beautiful... Deborah Foreman is lovely.

Randy hiding in the shower and pantomiming blowing away whoever was on the other side of the glass because they were annoying.

So many great scenes and images, but I'd say my fave is when Randy and Julie are staring into each other's eyes at the club while you see The Plimsouls playing "Million Miles Away" between them, and they finally lean in for their first big kiss. This scene always got to me, excellent scene.

Another is when Randy and Julie are in the bathroom, and as he leaves out the window to wait for her outside, they give each other these big smiles. Definitely a small but beautiful scene.

"Valley Girl" (along with the underrated "Last American Virgin") is my fave 80's teen movie. The music, the direction, the actors, it all really captures the essence of teens falling for each other. I was that age then, and this flick has it down really nicely.

But did Fred get Stacey? I hope so, he was cool and she was hot!

Not really an image but when Randy's letting people in the movie and the guy Julie's dating says 'is this movie in 3D' and he says 'no, but your face is.' For some reason I quote that all the time.



Milk...it does a body dead

The club scene .....plimsouls singing million miles away ....*sigh* 

I love love love the scene in the bathroom when Randy asks Julie to leave with him.
"Where are we gonna go?"
"I don't care"
"What are we gonna do."
"Anything"

And I really like the breakup scene. It's so heartbreaking and then Randy yells "F you for sure, like totally!"

I'd like to see this movie beginning to end. I'm a bit of a culture snob -- not that I don't like having fun, I thought the song Valley Girl by Frank Zappa was hilarious -- but in 1983 and forward, sitting through a movie called Valley Girl seemed awful.
I suppose (suppository?) I had a stick up my butt. It looks like a fun movie,
I'm glad it was directed by a woman. Women don't get much representation in the movie business outside of acting, and I'm thinking there is a much different sensibility even if you don't notice on the screen immediately.
Anyway, this popped on the tele early in the a.m., and it looks like fun. I was 24 and working in a record store when it came out, but was more into blues and jazz (serious bastard) but I'm totally familiar with the whole vibe. I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.