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Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

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Date: 26 Jul 2015 14:07:00
Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

Splendor in the Grass (1961)
A Film by Elia Kazan
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:58:50 | 5,24 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English SDH, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Elia Kazan
Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle

Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. When Deanie's and boyfriend, Bud's desires intensify, Deanie restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. Can Deanie rebuild her life and find happiness?

IMDB - Won 1 Oscar | Wikipedia | Rotten Tomatoes


Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

This is a beautiful and powerful film - flawlessly acted, directed and written. It is easily the best of the sexual awakening movies that were so popular in the late fifties, early sixties. And why wouldn't it be - with Kazan at the helm and an original screenplay by William Inge.

Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

The film begins with a similar theme to "Rebel Without a Cause" - that is why won't parents treat their children like human beings and really help them come to terms with becoming adults? But halfway through Inge does a clever turn-around and allows the kids to discover that their parents are human beings too, with all the weaknesses and frailties that go with being human. At the same time Inge portrays the coming of age of America as the joy of the roaring twenties moves into the gloom of the Depression.

Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

The story is about how prejudice and blind morality destroys a great love - sex shouldn't be such a huge issue between two people who love each other, but the enormous pressures from outside to either do it or refrain from doing it cause confusion, pain and hurt. Who will ever forget Natalie Wood leaping naked from a bath screaming at her mother that she is not "spoiled"? Wood gives the performance of her life here, convincingly portraying adolescent love, a nervous breakdown, and the blossoming into woman-hood. Beatty too is splendid as the confused Bud. And both are so achingly beautiful!

Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

The supporting cast is superb down to the smallest role. Barbara Loden is particularly memorable as Beatty's wild flapper sister, but Pat Hingle as his father, and Audrey Christie and Fred Stewart as Wood's parents are also unforgettable.
IMDB Reviewer
Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

Splendor in the Grass is a prestigious, top-of-the-line, sensitively-handled melodramatic literalization of the axiom "If you touch yourself too much, you'll go crazy." In screenwriter William Inge's Christian-toned sex-itch parable, Natalie Wood plays Deanie Loomis, a virginal high school girl in rural Kansas whose desire to let the steam out of her jock boyfriend Bud Stamper's trousers is discouraged by her chastity-advocating mother. On the other side of the tracks, Bud (Warren Beatty, in his first movie appearance) is catching hell from his capitalistic father because Deanie represents the town's middle class. Standing on the fringes of both the Stamper family and the town's tolerance for wayward willfulness is Bud's sister Ginny, a Charleston-stepping, liquor-swilling, sashay-swaying hellcat who gets publicly dressed down by the Stamper patriarch even as he all but tells Bud to go sew his wild oats.

Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

As directed by Elia Kazan, who memorably turned the rape of Blanche DuBois into, well, something a little less easily-defined as rape, Splendor in the Grass often calls to mind Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, especially with Barbara Loden (Kazan's future wife) playing Ginny as though she were Marylee Hadley's kid sister. Sirk's grudge match between naughty and nice suggested his sympathies were with the former, but only subversively. In contrast, Kazan wavers little in his belief that Deanie and Bud should stop squawking and jump each other's bones already. (It prefigures the free-love 1960s as much as Sirk's movie attacks the witch-hunt 1950s.) Inge's scenario unravels alarmingly once the two would-be lovers start to drift apart thanks to Deanie's nervous breakdown and the simultaneous (almost psychically connected) market crash of 1929, but the first half of the film is a tour de force of deferred urges, contortion acts of awkward intimacy, and the thrill of adolescence.

Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

Kazan and company were clearly grooming Warren Beatty as a fresh new Method-acting Boy Wonder, and his performance is a genuine oddity: He works against his own rigid, tortured muscular presence by refusing to act on impulses where Brando would. (Like David Niven tearing James Dean apart.) But it was Natalie Wood who rightfully earned the Academy Award nomination for, as much as anything, whining like a cat in heat and moaning in a steaming hot bathtub while her unbroken hymen vibrates like a tuning fork.
Slant Magazine
Splendor in the Grass (1961) [Re-UP]

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