In the ice skating scene, right after Willy quotes Romeo and Juliet, Marty sings this Lou Reed's song :
...and the coloured girls go :
Doo dodoo dodoodoo doo dodoo...
What's the significance of this verse ? I can't get it.
Does she invite Willy to "take a walk on the wild side" ?
Is it just a song ?
... ?
I think Marty was just trying to be a little silly. I don't think there was any significance to it.
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Probably the cheesiest line in the film. Okay, we get it. Marty is wise beyond her mid '90s pre teen generation. But having Lou Reed lyrics down to a 't'? We overdid it, writers.
shareDownlau I agree with you. I cringe a little everytime I watch that scene. It a rare mistep a really good film.
He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?
I don't now, JR. Read the analogy the author of this thread came up with. It makes sense. I sort of changed my mind. I hear ya, though. Just the lyrics make me cringe, probably because I know this film, even in the mid '90s, was shown to an audience that might be too young to know the genesis of that phrase.
shareI don't think it's that unrealistic.
Lots of folk know songs that are before their time, I was born in '88 but know plenty songs from before then.
Exactly, cringe is the perfect description of how I feel when that line comes out of her mouth.
shareYeah, I don't like that line neither. Somehow seems misplaced, like Marty's character would not say something like this. Well, it's over fast ;P
shareYeah, but don't 13-year-old girls say weird things? It's cring worthy and misplaced, but it plays for me as a very realistic moment of someone trying to come off as wise beyond their years, etc, and showing you just how young they really are. That's how I see the bulk of her part, actually. Her intellect, precociousness and pop culture awareness are way more advanced than her actual emotional maturity, which is pretty much right where it should be at 13.
shareI agree with RobSac...cheesy line...in a movie full of cheesy lines. Real people don't talk in tidbits of old movies and clever come-backs...and especially if you're 13...only in movies
I didn't mind the movie but some of the dialogue was just so contrived and cheesy.
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"What's the significance of this verse ? I can't get it.
Does she invite Willy to "take a walk on the wild side"?
I think she was trying to lighten the mood. He's quoting one of the most intense lines about passionate love from Shakespeare, and she's poking fun at him / it. Anyway, that's how it seemed the actors were acting it...
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Agree...
Lou Reed's lyrics might be out of reach of a girl her age, but who actually cares?
A lot of things she says might be. That's what make her character so appealing for a 30 year old, after all.
Besides:
It was funny as hell.
One problem is that "Walk on the Wild Side" is really about drug users, whores and pimps, and if Marty really DOES know the lyrics, and knows what they are about,
Candy came from out on the island,
in the backroom, she was everybody's darling,
But she never lost her head, even when she was giving head, she said,
"Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" ...
I think she was just humming the song in her head, when she was skating around. I am guessing she was feeling playful, and relaxed enough that she could behave naturally without feeling like a dork or wierd to him.
When I was a teenager I heard that song played regularly on the radio, I didn't know the lyrics of it or what it was about. But the tune was familiar.
Well, part of the whole attraction of Willie to Marty is she is such an "old soul," literate, smart, super-mature for her age and all that, so the idea that she might know the lyrics is not that far-fetched.
For that matter, it's probably a bit of a stretch that WILLIE would know the lyrics, or what they were about -- if Willie graduated from HS in 1985, that would mean he was probably born in 1967-68, so he would have been 4-6 years old in 1972, when "Walk on the Wild Side" was originally a hit, so odds are pretty good HE wouldn't have known all the lyrics, either. Like Marty, he'd probably just know the chorus, "And the colored girls go, doo, doo-doo, doo-do-doo..."
Are you kidding that song is still played in several radio station formats everyday and has been for years.
As said a few times she has an old soul
I thought she was meaning that age was not the issue.. Its just a number. So he used somthing that was meaning she was young with the pooh story. And she used somthing with music for his age and could understand. The song was much older for her to get she may have known the song . She new how to put in a adult manner. I thoght it was perfect for the part. Made you see that love comes in all ages. She loved him and still does.
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Yep. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's cover was huge in early 90s. Wouldn't be far-fetched for a teen to know the song.
shareYep. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's cover was huge in early 90s. Wouldn't be far-fetched for a teen to know the song.
The significance of the line was simply her charming way of telling Willie he is too serious. She's subtly telling him to lighten up and enjoy life. That's all.
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