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What's really wrong with this movie (possible SPOILERS)

posted 10 years ago by nycruise-1
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It was a trashy novel that got shoehorned into a Hollywood movie, which meant it had to conform to certain moral codes.

Connie Stevens can engage in premarital sex and get pregnant - but her husband has to die, he just can't dump her to leave her with her bastard kid.

I wonder if the novel had some things in it that were not allowed to be depicted on-screen.

Same with "From Here To Eternity": the James Jones novel had strong gay/homo characters but no - the movie "couldn't show that."

"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"

[–] star52-2 10 years ago

You sound so angry.

It was a different time....

[–] ZolotoyRetriever 10 years ago

I didn't think the OP sounded angry. I think he's basically saying what you are saying: it was a different time, and the more lurid aspects of novels adapted for the screen had to be toned down for the prevailing moral sensibilities of that time. It was a different time, indeed.

Another thing that was different: babies sure caught on fire a lot quicker back then than now!

[–] danarosecrystal_journali 10 years ago

Another thing that was different: babies sure caught on fire a lot quicker back then than now!

Well, clothes were more flammable back in those days.

The U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act is an act that was passed in 1953 to regulate the manufacture of highly flammable clothing.[1][2] It was enacted after a series of tragic deaths in the 1940s involving children who were wearing long rayon pile cowboy chaps or brushed rayon sweaters.
[ from Wikipedia]

[–] mls4182 10 years ago

Usually, even in the last days of the code, the females paid for everyone's "sins" with their lives. MacLaine in Children's Hour and Leigh in Psycho come to mind.

The suffering of the Sandra Dee character in A Summer Placre is so sad. Thank goodness things have changed for women.