What can you say about Troy Donahue, literally GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN...I feel that Troy Donahue has made a difference in my life as I was a very sheltered woman who doesn't express many sexual thoughts and Troy Donahue sort of opened my world and controlled my sexual thoughts...He is a very major part of my life, he is a blonde adonis who's a vision of God!!
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It's been a while since you posted this, but your comments definitely resonated for this 40ish lady. I was about 12 when I saw this movie, and it was already kind of old, it was 1970 but I wanted a boyfriend who looked just like Troy Donahue. Or Mick Jagger. Strange, isn't it.
shareYou know, I love this movie, but I totally don't find Troy Donahue attractive. I guess I realize he is attractive as I would recognize attractiveness in another woman or a work of art but it is totally not sexual at all for me. I am sexually attracted to "real" people, like the boy next door - not some Greek god or archetypal figure of "maleness." Mick Jagger (the early 1960s one, not the one now!) is more my type of guy.
shareUnlike James Dean who left an eternal mark in every movie lover's mind -with a career of only two and a half films-,Troy Donahue is nothing but a soap bubble that lived as long as a soap bubble does before it bursts. As for the movie itself, i saw it for the first time in the 60's and it had great impact on me.
I watched it again 2 years ago, and i was sorry to see that it did not survive the test of TIME. Still, some very little "magic" remains in some shots,mainly the nature scenery,the shiny technicolor of the 50's, certain camera angles that belongs to a directing style that is now forgotten and of course the haunting music; or is it simple nostalgia that makes me say so?
This movie coudnt survive the test of time . that what you said . But could you tell us about a movie which survived , in your opinion .
I am wating .
Art for the people is a kind of fashion .
Art for the artist is a language of soul .
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mosah. - (1)There are numerous websites that answer your question . Check them.-(2) Thanks the valuable peace of esoteric wisdom (the stuff about art,artists and people...).Well i'm just "people" :)-(3)Hope i didn't keep you waiting too long.
Soap is soap.
Diamonds are forever.
ib tyan ,
" Art for the people ....Art for the artist ... " .
this , could be in favour of what you said before !
why you understand it that way ???
" Citizen ken " or " psycho " , for some reasons , never get old .
those are my exampls of good art which never get old .
some movies can't be done twice . they are
like " Monalisa " ; you do it , only once .
mosash
mosash- a slight misunderstanding may have occured, no big deal.
Concerning CITIZEN KANE, i'm 100% of your opinion, Orson WELLS' masterpiece is still innovative in many aspects even in our present times.
But despite my great admiration for HITCHCOCK,i find that(the sublime at it's time) PSYCHO took a serious shot of old; which is not the case for older hitchcock movies such as THE ROPE or VERTIGO that survived well.
Here are randomly some oldies that i think are still very fit: most of CHAPLIN'S, many FELLINI'S, HIGH NOON, VIVA ZAPATA, RIO BRAVO, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, WEST SIDE STORY, THE SEARCHERS, TAXI DRIVER, DR. STRANGELOVE. THE MARX BROS:NIGHT AT THE OPERA...etc. The list is interminable!
By the way & since we started our conversation upon a soap movie, did you see PILLOW TALK which was issued almost in the same time?
ib_tyan
MICK JAGGER????? You've GOTTA be kidding!!!!! He's got the sex appeal of a sea-urchin!
shareWhen I was in High School I had a Troy Donahue encounter. One of my best friends brother ran over him. Troy was on a bike and he was driving a car and ran into him. Now this is in 1974 way past his prime but was we excited. I actually wrangled my way over to his house to see how he was doing. Since it was not a serious accident and her brother was only I believe 18 nothing big came out of it. But he did live in the neighborhood and we use to stop over to see how he was doing. He was just a regular guy and he was very nice to us silly girls.
shareFor what it's worth, I'm now 46 years old. I have a sister who's 56. My parents wanted to name me "Kyle," but my sister won out. Troy Donahue is my namesake. I've never seen a movie of his, and I was hoping that a visit to his place at imdb would reveal his talent as an actor, but it doesn't sound as if he was very good, just good looking. Rats.
shareIt's funny, I find him extremely wooden and not attractive at all. He did have beautiful blue eyes, but is so stereotypically gay looking and unmasculine. The bleached hair, the effeminate gait... I find Gary Cooper, Monty Clift, James Dean or Gregory Peck a million times more attractive.
It didn't help that Troy was a terrible actor. He's so emotionless and unbelievable, especially when he says to Sandra Dee, "I love you so much my body aches." He might as well have been saying, "Pass me the pepper."
There's no way Troy was 6'5", because in the movie Seizure, he only looks down slightly at 6'0" Jonathan Frid (who, at age 82, still made my 47 year old heart race last summer at the Dark Shadows Festival!). Troy was probably around 6'2" judging from that scene. He was a charming cad in that movie, but dies early on. His most expressive moment comes at that final moment.
Seizure was the first movie I saw Troy in, but I'd like to give him a chance in his most famous role.
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Dean had been dead 4 years. The late 50s were for romances with Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Fonda, MacMurray; epics with Heston, Douglas; family flics with Stewart; Hitchcock; and the beginnings of SciFi. Hammer and Christopher Lee/Quatermas, the Nelsons. Bad cars with large fins.
shareTroy was bisexual.
shareYes, Troy certainly was quite gorgeous in this film.
I did love all the talk of being 'good' vs. being 'bad'. And, it was nice to see Dorothy McGuire - The film I recall most seeing her in was 'The Enchanted Cottage' and she was excellent.
‘Six inches is perfectly adequate; more is vulgar!' (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Re: An open window).
Funny, when Sandra Dee talked about being good or bad, it made me want to puke. It was SO sappy! 😛
shareInteresting. I think he looks quite effeminate. But I like the movie.
sharenope, effeminate is not how i'd describe his character.
more like shy, honest, good, boy next door type.
he takes time to say stuff, he doesn't speak quick, he stands up firmly for his girl without drama, his reactions are calm and without any effeminate hiss, he is sexy as a young man can be.
I agree 100%!
sharewow, somebody needs to get laid!!! lol
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