Film Noir Buff Style Forum / "Barefoot in the Park" (1967)

4F Hepcat · 2011-09-05 10:58:32

Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:05:00

'Ho'. (See 'Skank', 'Slapper' etc. Urban Dictionary).

woofboxer · 2011-09-05 11:09:13

Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:12:27

Remember when every fruitloop in every movie, post 'Taxi Driver', had been In Country? We had some leftie sprog come to Keele to deliver a lecture on Vietnam in the movies. 'The Green Berets' - according to him - was the best movie about the war. The late Stephen Ambrose, former hippy and Democratic Party activist, set Vietnam in its Cold War context. Another of our lecturers said the Democrats got the United States into 'foreign entanglements', the Republicans got them out (WW1 and 2, Korea, Vietnam). Nothing whatever, of course, to do with Mark's original posting.

Oo Bop Sh'bam · 2011-09-05 11:17:19

Shame the rule should be broken by Iraq and Afghanistan then.

Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:18:16

True. But think 9/11.

4F Hepcat · 2011-09-05 11:20:46

From my perspective, 'The Green Berets' is the best propaganda about Vietnam. There was a time when everyone seemed to be into reading Michael Herr's "Dispatches" and I remember when I first read it that mixing of street language into literature mightily impressed me. I still think its the best book on the war, and yet, didn't he make a lot of it up?

Very good documentary on Russia Today a couple of evenings ago in the wee wee hours for insomniacs like me on fragging and the movement from within the armed forces to refuse combat operations in Vietnam. Hanoi Jane showed up as false as ever and the film of her singing at anti-war concerts in the late 1960's early 70's are embarrassing.

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Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:24:50

Wasn't it in 'Despatches' where the officer goes off duty wearing a Madras jacket, Levis and tasselled loafers? Worrying enough, no? Agree with you about Hanoi Jane, but Bob Hope's efforts on behalf of my lot are pretty cringe-making. Best to stick to MM, waggling her butt for those dogfaces in Korea.

Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:26:15

Apologies to my old friend Mark for derailing his thread.

Oo Bop Sh'bam · 2011-09-05 11:26:36

Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:27:40

Oh, so that's all right, then, is it?

Oo Bop Sh'bam · 2011-09-05 11:31:47

By their standards it seems so. Anyway, let's blame Jane Fonda for all this, sorry to de-rail the thread.

Back to RR, I think the all blue outfits work on him because of his hair colour, I know I said on another thread, there is no such thing as coloration effecting an outfit, but with all that blue, his golden locks sure balances it out.

Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:32:15

Oo - the Michael Moore of 'Talk Ivy'. Innit?

Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:35:16

Blame Dean Acheson (a Democrat) - if you must - for the formulation of much post-war US foreign policy. Also the saintly JFK. Acheson: "Through illusion to policy' - rubbishing the Republican isolation during the inter-war period.

Oo Bop Sh'bam · 2011-09-05 11:36:40

Ok that's great PM anything you like, I thought we were saving a thread here goddam it! Either talk about Robert Redford's lovely blonde locks or hop it!

4F Hepcat · 2011-09-05 11:41:32

Republican Party Reptile · 2011-09-05 11:47:05

The CIA, of course, murdered Elvis, John Lennon and Michael Jackson. Osama was actually working in the kebab shop just down the road from me, turning out a red-hot chicken tikka masala. FDR, as any fule no, was responsible for Pearl Harbor.

Harpo · 2011-09-06 02:43:13

Interestingly enough, Ho Chi Min (I got the quote RPR) did actually work in a Giant vibrator in London. But it was the Ritz, not a kebab shop. He was one of Escoffier's star pupils, apparently, and a lover of French culture, despite his implacable resistance to French Imperial rule (hence the quote).

AFS · 2022-01-18 11:26:13

This thread started well and is worth another look-see, partly because it was mentioned by TRS in a recent posting. No images available on here yet I expect the pressing of a button or two will bring up Redford and Fonda within seconds. An underrated actor perhaps.

Yuca · 2022-01-18 11:43:35

I found this film very disappointing. Fonda does her best under the circumstances (of course) but as I recall her character really has no substance. She's a housewife and that's the beginning and end to her 'personality'. Also being the tail end of the boom years, Redford's clothes aren't that great.

I watched it once then donated my DVD.

Tworussellstreet · 2022-01-18 17:08:53

Yuca you sourpuss. Yes it drags a bit, is half an hour too long, but the writing is great, Redford proves himself a good comic actor and as a depiction of mid-60s New York it takes some beating. Jane's character is thinly written, typical of the period, but she gives it bags of sass and looks so good in that duffle coat I can forgive everything else. And Redford's BB shirt is spectacular. I am easily pleased.

AFS · 2022-01-19 03:07:44

I confess to not having watched it - odd, considering I've been an admirer of Neil Simon since circa 1979. On my list of films to buy shortly, together with 'The Women' and some more mid-40s Hitchcock.

Yuca · 2022-01-19 03:14:16

It's a bit shit imo, and Redford's clothes are ok but nothing special. However you may well enjoy it more than I did.

Yuca · 2022-01-19 03:16:03

Dated would be a less harsh summary.

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