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Class of 1980, NYC exurbs.
No organized hazing like depicted in D&C at all. Random acts of bullying and torment? Yeah.
While Clint was a hothead and in a fighting mood, he didn't have any beefs with, or want any trouble with Pink, who was popular and had many allies.
FWIW, in the book, they were also fed lunch on workdays only. Red beans and hunk of corn pone. So, at least, some fiber.
I agree too. Much too overwrought and tried too hard to dominate the viewer's thought process by taking them by the hand and leading them this way or that. It seemed to me trying to do the same thing that a laugh track on a sitcom does.
Honorable mention ( or should that be horrible mention? ) was the use of the Beatles tune 'Yesterday' to try to set the tone of recollection. Such obvious heavy-handedness! My eyeballs rolled so hard I'd thought they'd pop right out of my skull.
I'll submit some people like sappiness; I'm just not one of them.
It sure is funny: the laugh track "tells" me so.
Seriously, the laugh track is brutally overbearing and is constantly injected into seemingly every other line, no matter how insipid.
This girl, nice kid but not especially learned, went nuts for this show and couldn't understand why I didn't. "It's smart dialogue" she would say, "You just don't get it". I said "I'll agree it _portrays_ "smart people", but the dialogue/writing is straight-up lame sitcom BS".
"Cut and paste sitcom dialogue". Nailed it.
Well, but all "70s" was not some monolithic decade when it came to culture and tastes. What was in vogue in '72 would be trite by '78-'79.
As it is, "can you dig it" sounds more like something 'Greg Brady' would say than what the leader of a vicious street gang would.
Finding out it was shot in California ruined it for me. No reproach to California as such, it's just that I was hoping for a gritty NYC in the 70s film with all the attendant eye candy. As it was it seemed to be shot very "tightly" with a zoomed in feeling focus on the characters and minimal background. They could get away with fudging the NYC part easier.
Me 3.
Just saw the film on TCM and I scratched my head as to what seems like an odd choice.
I did. I just saw the "Italy" episodes and noticed that, and that he didn't get the second slice of pizza due to his mother swooping in and distracting him ( yet again ).
From the brief glimpse we get at the beginning of the film when he pulls up to the pool hall ( as we see it through the window ) it looks like a 1949 Mercury to me, just like Duane's later car.
255 CID "flathead" V8. They DO make a nice snorty bark and rumble with open exhausts, but were not that powerful for their displacement unless modifications were done to improve their breathing. If so, they'd be very quick cars for their era.
Well really, "dig it" or "can you dig it?" sounds way behind the times for the late 70s. It was played out before the early 70s gave way to the mid 70s.
It's the only part of the movie that makes me cringe at the corniness.