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Splendor In the Grass

 

            I really enjoyed this film more so than some we have watched in class. It was another movie I could relate to and understand more of what was going on. It was in color and more interesting. I liked how in love she became that it made her crazy, but in the end realized he wasn't what she wanted. She moved on, and become her own person.
             Splendor in the Grass consisted of two teenagers falling in love but ending in a mess of confusion and frustration, because they try to follow their parent's wishes too much. In the end the two ended in separate places with totally different lives. .
             I think that the actor's and actress's did an amazing job in doing their characters in this movie. It was different seeing Warren Beatty, who played Bud, so young, because I was more use to him in movies like, Dick Tracy, being older. But he was still very good. Natalie Wood played Deanie in Splendor in the Grass did a good job. She was very dramatic, but not to an annoying point. It made the film all the more interesting.
             The setting of this film was placed in a small town in southeast Kansas in the late 1920's or early 1930's. Another thing I can relate to since I live in Missouri, and sometimes I think it might make me crazy too. It was mainly warm or nice whether too. Never rain or snow, but very dry and dusty.
             The theme of Splendor in the Grass is that you can't push your ambitions onto your children because they might not want to do exactly what you want. Bud's dad in this film had a plan for Bud to go to college where he wanted him to go, and it wasn't even what Bud wanted, but no matter how much he told his dad that he wouldn't listen, and it ended up making Bud miserable. .
             The film was made in 1961, but took place in the 1920's. I"m not really sure which category it would be placed under. I would say this film was a drama though. Was done in color and based of a true story. When films are based off true stories it makes them all the better.


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