Word: slob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sandro is discounted by Antioni's contempt; Anna disappears; Antioni never gives much attention to either the featherbrained Julia or the calm Patrizia. Only claudia is left. And because she alone remains at the end of the film, the audience must wonder if the story is only that the slob has caught another chick. In the despairing Lo Dolce Vita, this would be the message. But the essential distinction is that things are not the same at the end as they were in the beginning. Claudia has changed, as has Anna if she lives, as has Julia. L'Avventura...
...Meanwhile the hero's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, loudmouthed, backslapping, drunken and even crippled slob of a father (Pat Hingle), the all-American marketype of the guy with the big business and the teentsy soul, reaches down to the bottom of his heart and comes up with a moldy collection of pragmaterialistic cliches." See CINEMA, Love in Kazansas...
...first scene, the teen-aged hero (Warren Beatty) and heroine (Natalie Wood), a couple of nice kids from Kazansas, are shown in cinema's stock petting situation. Later that night the heroine's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, smarmy, gabby, hypocritical, vicious and even fat old slob of a mother (Audrey Christie), a living list of everything lousy that has ever been said about womanhood, reads her daughter a puritan's primer of sexual misconceptions: "Boys don't respect a girl they can go all the way with. Anyway, no nice girl has those feelings...
Meanwhile the hero's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, loudmouthed, backslapping, drunken and even crippled slob of a father (Pat Hingle), the all-American marketype of the guy with the big business and the teentsy soul, reaches down to the bottom of his heart and comes up with a moldy collection of pragmaterialistic cliches: "Son, don't you go too far with that girl. If she gets pregnant, you'll have to marry her and then you couldn't go to Yale. What you need-heh, heh-is another kind of girl on the side...
...cleverness that he forgets to shave or wash. He is a grind and a recluse; he rots in Widener. The second is the companion of wine, women, and money. He talks it over in the Club in his oval-shaped Brooks Brothers suit. The third is the anti-intellectual slob--the animal. He grunts and sweats in Briggs Cage...