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Post by erik on Nov 20, 2014 9:36:34 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 13:31:45 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Nov 20, 2014 18:53:27 GMT -5
Quote by robertaxel:
And if memory serves me right regarding VIRGINIA WOOLF, isn't there a fairly racy (even raunchy) sequence in that film called "Hump The Hostess"?
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Post by Richard W on Nov 21, 2014 8:17:42 GMT -5
It was more the mere speaking of the line "hump the hostess" than it was a sequence. HtH was considered pretty raunchy in and of itself at the time, along with the other (many) swear words in a major Hollywood film.
Woolf is a fabulous movie, with all four leads—Taylor, Segal, Dennis and, especially, Burton—giving their best performances.
Nichols's brand of cinematic humanity—he made movies about people—will be missed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 9:43:01 GMT -5
I recently read a quote by Mike Nichols saying there are three types of scenes - negotiations, seduction, and fighting. It seems that in Virginia Woolf, he knew how to combine them all..
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Post by erik on Nov 21, 2014 9:47:22 GMT -5
And also one of the great one-word lines in movie history in THE GRADUATE, when Murray Hamilton tells Dustin Hoffman what the wave of the future is: "Plastics". Was he or was he not right?
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Post by rick on Nov 21, 2014 14:53:47 GMT -5
And also one of the great one-word lines in movie history in THE GRADUATE, when Murray Hamilton tells Dustin Hoffman what the wave of the future is: " Plastics". Was he or was he not right? Yes, Mike Nichols' passing is huge. Charlie Rose devoted most of his program last night to showing clips of past interviews with Mike Nichols. Erik, I only know this because dear friends of mine were best friends with the actor Walter Brooke who played the part of the man who said, "Plastics" to Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman). Here is the IMDB on it --- Trivia about "The Graduate" <snip> " Within a year of the movie's release, plastic manufacturing companies became enormously successful. Many people attribute this to Walter Brooke's quote about "plastics". Brooke himself once told his nephew that he would have invested in plastics, if he had known that the remark would lead to such success.
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Post by erik on Nov 21, 2014 18:19:19 GMT -5
My mistake re. who said that line in THE GRADUATE. But it was indeed one of those many films released in the 1960s that were terribly prescient (IMHO).
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