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Special Prosciuto

(731 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2015, 06:51 PM Mar 2015

'Beat Generation' portrayals in films

'Tomorrow is a king-size drag'

Phillipa Fallon (you know who's on piano)

High School Confidential aka Young Hellions, 1958 crime drama

'Cuckoo'

Barbara Lawson

Visit to a Small Planet, 1960 comedy

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'Beat Generation' portrayals in films (Original Post) Special Prosciuto Mar 2015 OP

The Wild One First Speaker Mar 2015 #1

I am very familiar with The Wild One. Thanks for reminding me. Special Prosciuto Mar 2015 #3

Bucket of Blood Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2015 #2

Oliver Reed! Special Prosciuto Mar 2015 #6

I think he learned those dance moves Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2015 #7

A TV show rather than a movie, but... cyberswede Mar 2015 #4

Not Beat specifically but certainly heavily influenced -- Hell Hath No Fury Mar 2015 #5

First Speaker

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1. The Wild One

Reply to Special Prosciuto (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 07:42 PM

Mar 2015

...that's from 1954, a few years before the "Beat Generation" got its name...but it still captures the era better than any other film. The nihilism, the searching, the rebellion...it's all there...

Special Prosciuto

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3. I am very familiar with The Wild One. Thanks for reminding me.

Reply to First Speaker (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 08:09 PM

Mar 2015

I understand it was based on a real-life invasion of Hollister, CA, by young bored recently returned WW2 vets on bikes and drinking like all hell. Hell's Angels was the name of a B-17, and its crew painted the nose art onto the backs of their leather jackets. Wasn't that the origin of biker 'colors'?

The Wild One was one of Lee Marvin's early films.

Joe Shlabotnik

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2. Bucket of Blood

Reply to Special Prosciuto (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 08:02 PM

Mar 2015

Is a classic, ahem, "Beat" movie:

(whole (B)movie)

Always loved the opening credits for Beat Girl also:

(the whole movie is also on youtube but the sound is awful)

Special Prosciuto

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6. Oliver Reed!

Reply to Joe Shlabotnik (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 08:24 PM

Mar 2015

The Brits offered him to us as their postwar bad guy. Look for him in "The Shuttered Room."

Joe Shlabotnik

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7. I think he learned those dance moves

Reply to Special Prosciuto (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 08:41 PM

Mar 2015

at the Charlie Brown Christmas party. He sounded like quite a character in real life, I believe he was Keith Moon's next door neighbor for a while and they got along famously.

cyberswede

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4. A TV show rather than a movie, but...

Reply to Special Prosciuto (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 09:44 PM

Mar 2015

would Johnny Staccato count?

Hell Hath No Fury

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5. Not Beat specifically but certainly heavily influenced --

Reply to Special Prosciuto (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:00 PM

Mar 2015

"Funny Face" and "Bell, Book and Candle".

"Big Eyes" takes place in SF's North Beach during the height of the City's Beat movement.

My Dad worked for the Army but was a "weekend" Beatnik here in SF. Drove around on a Vespa and went to salons. He wore the uniform but was deeply conventional at the core. He's now a FOX -watching, RW, gun-loving nutbag.

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