Splendor in the Grass Elia Kazan Digital Life VHS

Splendor in the Grass
starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden
directed by: Elia Kazan

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302311631
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302311632
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: November 29, 1994
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 4263
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1961

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Elia Kazan's pedal-to-the-metal approach to psychosexual melodrama paid off handsomely when he had layered material by Tennessee Williams or John Steinbeck to work with. The very raw material here is an original by hot-blooded playwright William Inge, about a pair of teenagers in the American Midwest in the 1920s whose lives are ruined by the repressive sexual climate of the period. The girl, played by Natalie Wood, is literally driven batty by her pent-up adolescent lust and ends up in the bin---which admittedly plays better than sounds, because the hunk she yearns for is the young and almost impossibly handsome Warren Beatty. This is a very lush and beautiful movie, but also a deeply silly one. It's grade-A American cheese, with a pinch of dime-store Freud on top.--David Chute

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- ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES
Thankfully, I did not grow up in this era, and everything I have read and heard about it is obviously not entertaining. It is, therefore, even more amazing to me how entertaining this movie is for me. First of all, the chemistry between the beautiful Natalie Wood and the handsome Warren Beatty is off the charts. They are so young, especially her, but they are such masters of their craft even at their young ages. This movie has the depressing events of the times woven through the lives of the characters such as people jumping from windows after the stock market crashed.

First love, young oppressed love is the central theme. "Good girls" and "bad girls" and "boys will be boys" relay the double standard message of the times and of the movie. I can almost feel the pain of Bud and Deanie who are so much in love, but are not allowed to physically express it. Even though Bud wants Deanie and Deanie wants ... Read More

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- I didn't know this was a silent film
Well, there was NO sound on this DVD, so I didn't watch it. Into the garbage! Must have been a defective DVD.

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- great acting!
Nataile Wood gives a great preformance in this movie, its a beauitful love story that how alotof meaning to it. i love this movie!

Deanie and Bud are high school sweethearts in thier 1920's little town, they love each other and Bud plans to marry Deanie. his father wants him to go to college first. Bud also wants their Relationship to go to the next leavel. Deanie though is not ready, so Bud finds a girl who is and brakes up with Deanie, after seeing the girl in class, Deanie can't take it...

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- universal theme of brokenhearted lovers still pertinent today
When I watched this movie when I was a teenager in the 1970's, the theme of lovers being broken apart by parents, or time, or circumstances evoked such painful emotions that I still cannot rewatch the movie to this day-and I am 53.It is a breathtakingly poignant movie,whose theme remains relevant today. This is an absolute love story classic, with a brilliant performance by Natalie Wood, that must not be missed by anyone who loves this genre. One of the moral messages taken from the movie-famous lines from Wordworth's poem (which the title comes from)-are ones I have repeated to myself frequently to get through life.

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