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.
The movie "Splendor in the Grass," and the essays "The Crack-Up" and "The Doomed in Their Sinking," are about being in a confused state of mind. ... At the ending of Splendor in the Grass, Deanie comes back from the mental institution after trying to commit suicide at the waterfall because Bud cheated on her. ...
Their strong essence can be inhaled no matter where you stand about the vast thirty-two acres of green, green grass. ... It is so sootheing to set and deeply breathe in a breath of fresh air along with the fragrance of freshly cut grass and a cedar porch. Then, just stare into the splendor that I call my backyard, which until now has always been an unknown place. ...
Their strong essence can be inhaled no matter where you stand about the vast thirty-two acres of green, green grass. ... It is so sootheing to set and deeply breathe in a breath of fresh air along with the fragrance of freshly cut grass and a cedar porch. Then, just stare into the splendor that I call my backyard, which until now has always been an unknown place. ...
There are faint sounds of cows mooing and chewing grass. ... The grass feels so soft and is the most vibrant array of greens. ... The splendor of the houses and shops stay the same. ... The soft velvety grass still felt underneath the fingertips and the taste of the juiciest, ripest blackberry savored. ...
When I listen to it I picture Mother Nature in all of her splendor on the first day of spring. She is dancing among the trees that have seemed to die in their winter slumber and atop the grass that has browned beneath the snow. ... Mother Nature blows a kiss to her charges and the breeze from that kiss flows like water through the trees, flowers, and grass to spread the spring across the land. ...
We have no fence or walls dividing the two properties, just a large open space and the splendor of the weeping willow gracefully waving its branches in the gentle breeze. ... Now that I am far away from home, I can no longer find comfort in retreating to the cool grass under the weeping willow tree when I need to escape from reality. ...
The narrator says, ...bathed the whole in a ghastly and inappropriate splendor (327). ... The murky water of the lake surrounding the house, the uncut grass, mangled shrubbery, dead trees, and lack of tender, loving care shows the neglect that the poor house had to endure. ...
The first two sentences make up the two quatrains of the octet, and the third sentence makes up the sestet of the poem: O unworn world enrapture me, enrapture me in a web O fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech, Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech For this soul needs to be honored with a new dress woven From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven. (9-14) Prior the persona delineates the bounty of God's grace he encounters along his walk of the bank, now, as the sestet expresses, ...
