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loved it but i see their love as unrealistic

posted 12 years ago by decrd1986
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I absolutely loved the movie! it was romantic, sweet, and Judy was smokin hot here! however, when they decided to get married, as a viewer i was like "huh?" lol. I guess its because when i watched this movie, i imagined myself in their scenario. I would have never got married! i'm too much of a worrier and im not spontaneous, even if i were in love i wouldn't have gotten married.

yes, i'm sure this does happen in real life and many couples stay together for years, i really just can't see it being realistic.

but it is a movie and its a romantic flick, so i guess its a given. I still think it was amazing! loved judy. ;)

[–] Uvtha 12 years ago

Dude movie peeps in ye olden times got married like it was going out of style. Step off the street car and bump into some random redhead and POW lets tie the knot.

[–] decrd1986 12 years ago

Haha, yea i agree! i'm glad you see my point. I have noticed old movies are like that, they fall in love so easily and im like "love is not THAT easy, maybe for some but its not that damn common."

[–] Uvtha 12 years ago

People were much more inclined to just say "hey you're marrying me" back then though, that much is true. That's basically how my grandparents got together.

Pre womens lib a wife was just a commodity for a guy, and a job for a girl.

[–] pan-10 12 years ago

It was war time and everything was rather frantic and rushed.

[–] PR-7 12 years ago

> It was war time and everything was rather frantic and rushed

In an interview (MANY decades later) I recall, a few wartime brides admitted that their attitude when they met young men about to go off to The War was, "These boys are perfectly willing to give up their bodies for our country -- shouldn't we girls be doing the same?" HOWEVER, at the time, you could only do this "sacrifice" if you were married to the guy -- so, these women admitted, a lot of them got married with about the same amount of thought as you saw in this film.

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[–] gorgsharpy 11 years ago

That's exactly Minnelli's point - and why it's a masterpiece. It's so ambiguous.

[–] generalusgrant 9 years ago

It was war time, people!!

DUH.

Millions and millions of couples were married during WWII who didn't know each other and who didn't love one another. My parents met and married 2 weeks later in 1942, because my dad was going to be shipped overseas. They regretted their decision forever, believe me. But that was the norm in 1942!

[–] oh_yeah_man 9 years ago

Yeah haha, I just saw this movie on TCM, and I was just like "Whaaaaaaat?" when he proposed. Hopefully, he either died or they made it work forever so that in either case, they wouldn't be tied down to each other.

[–] tmaj48 9 years ago

Hopefully, he either died...

Well, that's a wee bit horrid.

The reality of these quickie wartime marriages was that the divorce rate skyrocketed right after the war, when the soldiers returned home.

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

[–] PretoriaDZ 9 years ago

Best Years of Our Lives covered this subject with the flyboy Dana Andrews having married the nightclub bombshell Virginia Mayo, knew her two weeks, and then shipped off. When he came back, he found out she had a beautiful face but an ugly character.

This positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms!Terry-Thomas about US 1963.Hasnt changed much!

[–] joasiafly 9 years ago

My parents were newlyweds in that era (but dad was not a soldier, and he and mom knew each other a year before they married lol).

My parents had a bakery and my mom would tell us stories of how before the war, my Dad would make maybe 1-2 wedding cakes a month, if that.

War time comes, and he was making 2-4 a DAY - wow, talk about carpe diem!

When my mom saw this movie, she said it was so true to life; post-war was exactly as previous poster mentioned about "Best Years of Our Lives". Lots of sad stories, but also some very happy ones.

I'd like to think that Joe and Alice were the happy ones post-war: they moved back to Minnesota, he became a carpenter, and she worked as a secretary until they started a family. Nothing wrong with that when the life they build together brings so much happiness.

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[–] MsELLERYqueen2 8 years ago

He was about to leave for war again. I think she felt that if he died, she wanted to be his widow. If he didn't die, then she wanted him to come back to her. She didn't want to be just a temporary girl in his life.

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