Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles are major touchstones.
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DavidS - Sep 05, 2004 2:59:35 pm PDT #3588 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2004 3:04:34 pm PDT #3589 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles are major touchstones.
Those, and Pretty In Pink were the very ones I was thinking of. Their effect must be more subtle than, say, Star Wars or even Gilligan's Island (P-C, I did eventually see Godfather, so you're flying solo) because I don't feel a blankness resulting (in fact or theory) from not having seen them.
I had them in my head in places more like Princess Bride, where the people that know, REALLY know, and really love, but isn't quite the badge of acceptance to general pop culture and beyond.
Jesse - Sep 05, 2004 3:10:45 pm PDT #3590 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I still haven't seen any of the Godfather movies, but I still get what the references are. I don't care that I haven't actually seen the scene or whatever.
And I have no idea about the broader cultural relevance of the Molly RIngwald oevre, just because most of my friends have seen them as many times as I have.
Alibelle - Sep 05, 2004 3:14:06 pm PDT #3591 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Is Dirty Dancing a teen movie? I would say it is definitely a touchstone, and it has the teen movie plot of geeky girl gets sexy gets guy, plus dancing.
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2004 3:16:29 pm PDT #3592 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't care that I haven't actually seen the scene or whatever.
That's how I feel about Gilligan's Island. I know when something's a reference -- I filled all that in because my friends were very boring that way. So I can act like I've seen it.
I can't act like I've seen the aforementioned teen movies, because aside from putting lipstick on with cleavage (am I remembering that right?) which I can't actually do -- never felt the touchstonal loss of them.
In fact, I didn't watch teen movies in the 80s, really. I wasn't in the US, it wasn't so much of a big deal. It wasn't until I got to college in Canada when I realised everyone else had. I fell in love with John Cusack, saw most of his, and felt sufficiently up to date. Would that Dobler were a touchstone.
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2004 3:19:02 pm PDT #3593 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I would say it is definitely a touchstone, and it has the teen movie plot of geeky girl gets sexy gets guy, plus dancing.
Ooh. Yeah, I might be down with that.
Alibelle - Sep 05, 2004 3:30:10 pm PDT #3594 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Ooh. Yeah, I might be down with that.
Plus? Most quotable line ever: "Nobody puts Baby in the corner."
Gris - Sep 05, 2004 4:22:37 pm PDT #3595 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I haven't seen The Godfather or The Godfather Part II or Schindler's List or Lawrence of Arabia or Brazil.
I am aware that this makes me evil. I plan to rectify. They just all seem so long and serious and I am often in the mood for short and and giggleful.
askye - Sep 05, 2004 4:24:19 pm PDT #3596 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I used that quote the other day at work.
Everyone looked at me strange...it was more what I was refering to than no one getting it.
Alibelle - Sep 05, 2004 4:35:42 pm PDT #3597 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I haven't seen The Godfather or The Godfather Part II or Schindler's List or Lawrence of Arabia or Brazil.
Were we supposed to? Whatever! I saw Clueless.
And I didn't like Casablanca, which from everything I had heard about it, I should have loved. Now I don't go out of my way to watch over-hyped classics because, really, I think I expect too much from them.