![]() ![]() The reason for the subplot was to make Teresa likeable and sympathetic. But it showed the main protagonist as especially warm and caring, so I guess it worked for that reason." "'s probably the draggiest part of the whole film. The murderer of Roseann Quinn said that as he was attacking her she screamed at him "kill me!" In the movie she screams "do it!" In the book Teresa's last thoughts are : "Help Mommy Daddy Dear God, help me-do it do it do it and get it over w." by Anonymous I think it's myopic to say that the movie was anti-sex or a "cautionary tale." I always viewed it as just a portrayal of the life and death of a lonely, confused young woman. ![]() Goodbar" is a play on the old saying "looking from Mr. Goodbar." It's described like this: "a comfortable place with old gum-ball machines for table lamps and one wall covered entirely with a shellacked montage of candy wrappers." It's the bar where she meets the pick-up who kills her. In the book one of the bars Theresa cruises in is called "Mr. I guess the name of the candy bar is just a named designed to make the consumer think it's delicious: Mr. Goodbar" come from originally? Why call a candy bar that? Why name a book after the candy bar?" "So the candy bar was first, but where does the term "Mr. The characters are archetypes that are recognizable to all generations. Something like "Sixteen Candles" (the only example I can think of right now) is incredibly dated in terms of it's costumes, etc., but it remains popular today not because of that, but because it captures what it's like to be young and experiencing love for the first time. What makes a movie timeless is how universally it captures a theme or emotion that speaks to audiences in any time period. It preserves in living, moving color the city and it's peoples and captures their emotional lives as well. It's a perfect time capsule of what it was like to be alive in New York at that very moment. So, in that respect, it is dated, but in a really wonderful way. It was made to speak to that particular generation's mood/zeitgeist. Something like "Goodbar" is a film made during the specific moment in time being portrayed. The filmmakers had historical perspective on their side and specific choices were made (in costumes, sets, etc) to properly evoke that time, hence the sense of timelessness. "The Godfather" was a movie that took place in the 40's, but was made in the 70's. ![]()
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