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Plot:
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 ...( read more 
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MCT:August 2, 2008
It's a bit melodramatic, but it's very well acted and it does have something to say. I'd watch it again gladly.
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MCT:August 2, 2008And introducing Warren Beatty....Okay, so "Splendor in the Grass" is a vintage film. But does it ever stand the test of time....YES. Here's a keeper for you.
It's America. It's in the late 20s. Prosperity is in the here and now of a stock bubble, soon to be the current economic slump of Black Tuesday, 1929. Even the country folk are getting into the act. Bud doesn't much care about that. Neither does Wilma. They're star struck, star-crossed lovers, trying to make their own ends meet in a time before THE PILL.
Made in the early sixties, "Splendor .." addresses the coming storms of that decade with the tip of the iceberg of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Natalie Wood plays a pretty, sexy Wilma caught in a web of puritanical culture and the desire to make her American Dream of a man come true. Beatty is Bud, the local high school football hero, testosterone oozing, frustrated lover. Put the couple in a car and the free highway and wait for things to happen when it comes time to park.
Inner bombs, ticking, waiting, only to end in inner explosions. Wilma just says, "No" and Bud's despondent response move the couple on to mutually assured destruction of their relationship.
Parents, only looking after the welfare of their children, grown to adulthood under their watch, gasp as their son and daughter implode and explode before their eyes.
William Inge captured the mood of a time gone by and modernised it in a new time gone by, 1961. Kazan directed yet another masterpiece. In all, a top American movie. See it. -
MCT:June 30, 2008
What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind. -
MCT:June 19, 2008Up there as one of the greatest high school films ever, it's flawless. Beautifully acted and directed. Isn't Natalie Wood simply one of the most endearing and beautiful hollywood actress ever to grace our screens, Beatty is great here too, but lets be honest its Natalie's film. She captures the innocence, madness and ectasy that is your first love.
A very poignant and relevant story that easily could beat the majority of todays highschool films.
Great ending, very moving, gets me every time. From the director of some of the greatest films ever made(Elia Kazan classics>>> On the waterfront, A Streetcar named desire, and East of Eden), Splendor in the Grass is simply one of those movies you MUST see, you won't regret it -
MCT:March 27, 2008
Although extremely dated (but then again aren't most films about sexual climates of the time period they are set in?) this is a take no prisoners film about coming of age and discovering your sexuality. Natalie Wood, without a doubt one of the most beautiful actresses in history, shines as Deannie, the good girl who wants desperately to be bad but goes insane in the process. Warren Beatty, in his screen debut, is perfectly cast as Bud Stamper; rich, handsome and bound for success. He wants to have sex with Deannie, but deep down he knows that if he does, he may spoil her. Deannie doesn't want to be branded as a slut, but she's willing to do just about anything to keep Bud's heart. The best thing about this film is the climax which I cant give away. I love movies that don't have a neat and tidy wrap up with everyone happy in the sunset. The choices this film makes are bold. Elia Kazan deserves a lot of credit for his handling of the cast and the, once again, controversial material.
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MCT:March 16, 2008The film's title is taken from English romantic William Wordsworth's 1807 Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Reflections of Early Childhood, some of which is quoted here:
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower
We will grieve not, but rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
The mood and story line of the stormy relationship between two star-crossed, teenaged lovers parallels the poem as the adolescents meet, fall obsessively in love and become sexually awakened, face repressed sexual attitudes, parental pressures, turmoil, social constraints and class differences, and ultimately break up and are traumatized without consummating their love. The values of the business-oriented civilization - at the time of its greatest crash - coincides with the collapse of their tender romance.
By Elia Kazan, 1961. -
MCT:March 10, 2008
An erotic, strange and heart-breaking love story with two dynamite actors. At times, seriously flawed, the film still manages to captivate with its racy content for the time.
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MCT:February 27, 2008Elia Kazan'in "Splendor in the Grass"inda, kiz arkadasiyla 'birlikte' olamadigi icin hayatlarini mahveden gencler rolunde, gencecik Natalie Wood ve Warren Beatty'i izlemek nostaljik. Ama sonunda, Beatty'nin canlandirdigi Bud karakterine sinir olmamak mumkun degil. Yazik yazik..
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MCT:December 27, 2007
I love this movie...the first time I watched this movie I was only 13 years old and it is still my favorite movie.
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MCT:August 31, 2007
a true romance...even though it ends ....no better match then natalie wood and warren beatty! a classic that will never die
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MCT:August 20, 2007
While I feel that this isn't the classic that everyone has made it out to be but I still found it to be an engaging show. The some acting from the cast was solid: Natalie Wood was good in the lead role (although I must admit there were moments where she was a bit 'off') and Warren Beatty, who made his film debut here, is terrific. The direction and the script are both equally good as well. However on the negative side there were some performances and scenes that I felt were a little too over the top, which took me out of the film on occasion. Despite all that in the end I thought that it was a really good and well made teen drama.
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MCT:August 13, 2007
natalie is soooo hottttt....egad, but i miss that woman! okay, but those days are over and done, and that's sad, but thanks to the miracle of film one can still relish the vibrancy of some truly american wonders of life...warren beatty ain't too bad either, for a self-loving ham!
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MCT:August 12, 2007
This movie is brilliant! From a time when marriage was sacred, and children knew who there daddy was.
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MCT:August 8, 2007
I will see it one million times. Show how the teen love can lost the head for the restriction of the fathers and how the time eraser all the past.
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MCT:July 6, 2007
There ought to be a poster for this movie next to the word 'bittersweet' in the dictionary. The tale of that big love we have the first time and what happens when there is interference. Are you better off for it? Or ruined?
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MCT:June 30, 2007
Gripping. Natalie Wood is always brilliant. I love the theme, 50s sex. If you don't do it, you go nuts.
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MCT:June 24, 2007
Yet ANOTHER Elia Kazan masterpiece, the man was a genius. A great coming of age story, presenting what I think might just be Natalie Wood's best performance. Great stuff.
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MCT:June 20, 2007
well, at first I put I want to see it, but then remembered I already had. Not a good sign. I now remember it being a good movie, but obviosly not for memorable :P
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MCT:June 10, 2007
Relentlessly raw... Elia Kazan continues to fight the censorship laws of the time with excplicate but subtle imagery of youth melodrama.
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty engage in a very dependent relationship in high school, a relationship soon to be destroyed by external factors. Both characters come from differing socio backgrounds and both sets of parents' have different aspirations for their children. This leads to psychological study of Natalie Wood's character where she seems to go temporarily insane.
Once again, Kazan's directional focus is terrific, he is the king of adaptions. He is definitely one of the powerhouse American directors. -
MCT:May 26, 2007
I love this movie! A story of forbidden love. Warren Beatty, & Natalie Wood take your breathe away as two teens in love forbidden to be together. This movie is a true classic. I couldn't stop crying. I highly recommend this movie!
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MCT:April 8, 2007
My first clean love story. It was crazy like that. Loved it. Loved it for me to have seen it 27 years ago and still remember it, It must have made quite an impression
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MCT:March 12, 2007
A beautifull, realistic, intense love story. Some beautifull performances, and a couple in
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MCT:November 30, 2006
Yes I watched this movie, and yes it was brilliant. I think I cried for about two hours after it had ended.
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leontecamelia2000posted 289 days ago -
I love this movie! A story of forbidden love. Warren Beatty, & Natalie Wood take your breathe away as two teens in love forbidden to be together. This movie is a true classic. I couldn't stop crying. I highly recommend this movie!
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