Then, you'd better watch the nasty, crude, filthy "romcoms" so popular today instead while the rest of us appreciate something that rises far above that miasma. Today's movies far surpass tacky. When I try to watch one, I end up despising all involved and switch channels in hopes of finding a film such as this, including the Doris Day/Rock Hudson ones. At least they show people with some self-respect who aren't constantly prepared to "diss" someone.
I'll stick with this nimble use of language and "arch, coy interactions". I'll keep dreaming of a time when a first date or even casual meeting wasn't seen as a step to bedhopping or wherever convenient. People were eloquent, without an "f-bomb" or vulgarism to be heard. They take pride in their appearance and in themselves and actually have crises of conscience.
BTW,the "youth culture" really hadn't built up yet. This isn't "the new age" quite yet. Heck! The Beatles haven't exploded onto the scene yet! This is before London swings, Carnaby Street, Peter Max, and the rest. Peter Nero definitely would not be "youth culture"!
Put on the scales this one film and a stack of all the romcoms. At least for me, this one would outweigh the pile of nasty, vulgar escapades.
*** The trouble with reality is there is no background music. ***
reply
share
Clemencedane
11 years ago
I hate modern Romcoms. My favorite films are from the 1930s and 1940s when dialogue was infinitely wittier and more sophisticated and they weren't trying so hard to be "shocking" in a silly 1963 way.
reply
share
MystMoonstruck
11 years ago
Those films do exactly the same thing! If they're pre-code, they're very naughty. Even after, they were implying as much as possible. I watch them, too, and I know they're skilled with arch glances, wry remarks and a lot of double entendre. This carries through the Fifties and Sixties till near the end of that decade, when there was very little of the talking-around-the-topic as had been done till then. Check out Ernst Lubitsch's works, just to name one director of "naughty" romantic comedies.
"Breezy" and other films about relationships pretty much put an end to the playful language~spoken and bodywise~of older films.
Doris Day said in an interview once that, by the time she did "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?", she realized where movies were headed and was uncomfortable with the bluntness. Even those movies were quite distant from the stuff produced nowadays.
*** The trouble with reality is there is no background music. ***
reply
share