Acting Gods | 5 Breathtaking Scenes of the 1970's 

Very cool indeed! Here’s to acting longevity 👏🍾🎉

He is a jerk!

She is such a great actor ... even at that age. She's amazing. Of course, he's so good as well.

@@PixivityComputerSpecialistsI know! He’s terrible at true strategies that might have convinced her. But the screenwriter did a great job of getting across how socially inept he actually was.

what age? I can't stand the US obsession with youth. When I trained as an actor I was told that you couldn't be a real actor until you were 40. There are exceptions, but it's true. So much wisdom is wasted in this country and that's why we're in the shitter. @@SherryAnnOfTheWest

It's so weird. I was thinking the same thing. Are just the same people we were when we were that age? It seems like we are. Almost like our personalities are set in stone and they slowly mold over time.

Excellent point.

My exact thoughts too, great scene, great movie...

The best scene from Jaws was in the cabin of the boat at night drinking telling how they got their scars. Best buddy scene ever.

Agreed. One of the most haunting, mesmerizing scenes ever.

Agreed, but the scene with Brody's son is the heart of the movie.

So glad thanks for your enthusiasm, mroe coming!

Do you mean “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”??? 🎉I REMEMBER that show!!!!!! Bill Bixby!!!!!!!!!

Yes, THAT's the one! ;-)@@mrsmacca126

Yeah. She did even back then at 13.

Yesssss!!!!!

As she's telling him she's not a child, she's showing him with those sandwich ingredients that she is a child. And every tween girl is into astrology. The juxtapositions here are perfect. Writing, directing, and acting are all stellar.

She's hyper intelligent but at the same time showing she is still very young by the astrology beliefs.

@@eltravos99She’s indoctrinated. She has been fully indoctrinated by her pimp / lover / father / god figure “Sport” (Harvey Keitel). She has been taught and is now able quickly to rattle off a number of irrelevant facts from her detailed and systemic knowledge of an (irrefutable and thus worthless) system of human psychology and behavioral explanation (astrology) in order to both give herself and anyone who might question her the impression of having an independent, intelligent and free mind. But the “knowledge” she has is unconnected to the real world and ultimately worthless outside of the small group to which she already belongs (Sport and the other prostitutes under him and their clients). She has fully adopted and embraced the logic of her oppressed, enslaved and abused state and interpret it as “freedom”, because she’s been indoctrinated. Even someone as unskilled as Travis Bickle has little trouble initiating a state of dissonance in her. She is full of the false consciousness provided by her oppressor … Sport. Because her “knowledge” is worthless outside of the small group to which she already belongs she runs the very grave risk of “aging out” of the opportunity to take advantage of the fact the average person will still feel empathy for her state. In a couple more years she will become effectively “institutionalized” into the alternative world Sport and people like him entrap young children like her. The fact that only Travis Bickle seems to notice what is happening to her and is ultimately motivated by mixed and confused, not completely unselfish feelings towards her says a lot about the other allegedly “liberal” and “emancipatory” characters that are part of the movie. Or it says a lot about the screenwriter’s and director’s opinion about those kind of people and the institutions they represented at the time of the mid-1970s in America, a time that had already hardened into the “Me Decade” and “Me Generation” well on its way to the looming disaster of the “Greed Is Good” 1980s of Gordon Gekko which was codified and made into an alleged civic virtue by Reagan and Thatcher and the trickle down supply side neoliberal capitalist economics of Hayak and Friedman which turned the rich into a permanent social strata and gave them a political god-like status, and permanent increasingly unlimited access to the political system to defeat the democratic process and the interests of poor and mixed up people like Travis and her.

The line ‘he calls you names, he calls you a little piece of chicken’ was De Niro dropping into improv. Jodie at 12 years old didn’t bat an eyelid. Don’t think this film could be made today. The 70’s was the last golden age of cinema I fear. The drugs references such as sugar on jam and the changing of Jodie’s glasses. You could study this scene for hours and see more….

All the presidents men

You don't get out much, do you?

Love the word "dreck". 🫂

Absolutely 👍

The 1970s was a great decade for everything. It was the best decade in the 20th century.

@@armandoneri3607 Definitely movies and music

Great trivia knowledge

Indeed trivia was the wrong word, we do apologise, FYI, Meryl Streep also protected Harvey Weinstein, and called him ‘GOD’ in her Oscar acceptance speech. So it’s one horrible world we live in.

Genius move

You should write a book, thanks for sharing!

I worked at Diamonds department store, which is now Dillards when I was in high school (1975). I waited on a very nice lady, who I thought was very pretty and very small built. It was Barbra Streisand. I never let her know that I recognized her but I always remember her.

Amazing, wow 🤩

Oh sure Dillards was right around the corner from where I worked...interesting to know it was a Diamonds prior. I always tried to treat well known individuals like any other customer. I am sure BS appreciated just being one among many. @@jacquelineaslan8403

Incredibly kind, I hope you keep with us, lots more to come.

@@Vortexfilmclub I look forward to it. I'm really enjoying going through your catalog. :)

Wonderful comment.

Good catch 👍I remember him from Bullitt

Meryl and Bob, together in 'Falling in Love' ....😢

Arrrggghhh great choice!!

I just watched it a few months ago. Plays like a straight drama but it's a thriller with a twist ending. I still haven't decided if I liked it, but I'm glad to have seen it, if that makes sense.

​@@stephanie1624Watch it again in a few months. It captivates.

Intelligent ***

You better hop to it!! You're in for a treat too with these superb movies

Maybe the sound foley artist got paid too much and wanted to give his moneys worth to the producers 😆

@@Vortexfilmclub @Vortexfilmclub Oh, definitely. But of course not just this example (French Connection) but what seems like every movie/television show in the 70's did the exact same thing with the footsteps. Especially during any kind of chase scene. It's more of a directing choice and a crutch for the storytelling, I guess. But I always notice it and kind of laugh about it. Even the most famous opening walking scene from the 70's had it - except luckily mostly covered up by the sound of the Bee Gees.

It’s often that polished, leather, dress shoe sound with a hard sole, you can hear the stones crunch under each step. Not very practical in a real life chases scene I imagine.

Good question, regular uploads, keeping the channel alive with a mix of content but also these lists are interesting to viewers. They are great platforms for chatting about classic films. We have 70’s horror coming up and 80’s sci-fi 👍

Why isn't he?

@@weltschmerski Because murdering people just because you think they're bad is wrong, even if some of them are total scumbags.

Humanity gave birth to degeneracy. 😎🖤👍

Look deeper

For what it’s worth, she was 12 when filming Taxi Driver.

Yep, 12 years old there. Granted, she was precocious, but still 12. EEP.

@@dr.pennington1664 hot? She was a child!

You responded to the Wrong person-I’m saying she’s 12 so it’s inappropriate. Notice the EEep! I think your connect was meant for the person who said she’s hot.

😥

I still miss River and wonder about all the contributions to film we never got to see from him.

@@julietwochholz9755same 💔

Sally Fields in Sybil, how horribly UNDERRATED was THIS??? It haunted me for many years.

For sure. Became a life long fan after that movie. She's pure talent and class.

I miss Gene Hackman on screen. I remember him on Larry King’s CNN show in approximately 2004 stating he “couldn’t get a job.” I was stunned. This Oscar winner who was in Bonnie and Clyde, Reds, No Way Out, The French Connection, and so many other great films was unemployable? He retired shortly thereafter and he is still missed. Kevin Costner gave a lovely tribute to him and Sean Connery years ago at an awards ceremony acknowledging their greatness as actors, missing them, and wishing they would come out of retirement. We all felt the same, but sadly, it never happened. At least we have their previous work forever on celluloid. Here’s to the greats. ❤🥂❤️

He’s electrifying. Mississippi Burning is one of my all time faves.

@@Jettypilelegs Agreed. Willem Dafoe and Francis McDormand were great in that excellent film also.

@@nanny287 we were spoiled by an abundance of richness with that cast.

Gene is one of my all time favourites

I was just thinking that too

It's the perfect teeth. Ruins everything.

Beautiful phrasing on your part. 🌙

I wasn't!

@@hippojuice23 Well, hopefully someday you will be. Growing old is a privilege denied to many. Be grateful if you live long enough to say "I remember when I was young".

@@peach7210 That was joke poking fun at clichéd reactions to sentimental media designed to appeal to a particular era/generation.

Jodie is my fave child star (turn to Adult star). She is so beyond gifted.

I don't think she was hateful. The film kind of wants you to see her as hateful, but I see her just as a woman who needs to get out of that relationship, that she's felt trapped and hasn't known how to get out. She's probably told him in a million subtle ways what's wrong and he hasn't gotten it. So her only alternative is a clean break, rip the bandaid right off. If she's anything like the many women who left their husbands during the 70's, this is the only way she could figure out how to do it.

@@carolcyr8553She left her kid. That’s hateful.

I agree that leaving her kid like that was horrible. What a scarring trauma for that child. I guess i was just thinking about her leaving her husband, when I commented. I don’t think she was hateful in the way she left her husband.

@@carolcyr8553 Look. I get your initial point. And, there is no doubt that there were a lot of women in suffocating marriages. And, I was 14 when this came out and thought it was great. And, while my folks stayed together. I knew plenty whose didn’t. And, I generally felt the moms were in the right. The thing about it now, as an adult and a stronger movie critic, is that everything you said might be true. But there is LITERALLY nothing in the film to support it. Hoffman ain’t a brute or macho. Be it in the movie or real life. He wasn’t Burt Reynolds. He comes home and boom. She is out of there. We can divine that he works a lot. But there is nothing to suggest he mistreats her. And, from the cards she lays down, they have a nice life. Isn’t willing to talk. Go to therapy. Etc. If we reversed it, at any point in time, there would be very few women empathetic to a man suffocating in a marriage who just runs away for a year. And, rightly so. Hoffman grows. Becomes a better human. Reflected in his relationship w his son and w the female neighbor. And ultimately not appealing custody decision. Meanwhile she disappears for 15 months. Like, I think we all can kind of understand losing your shite for a coupe of days or a week. But, over a year. That’s just awful. While she uses his job loss and the jungle gym accident against him. Even as a 14 year boy I felt this tactic was awful. I understood that moms got custody. And that it was generally better. But, it just didn’t sit right. She was pretty awful.

I think it's better than you (we) think. 💎

If you can appreciate great performances, you have to watch it

@@Txjape70 I do and I love Rob De Niro

Great, a classic. And Dog Day Afternoon.

It's a little corny now in 2024 but certainly worth watching. It does get violent. The music score is superb too.

Did you actually see the movie and think about his character in it?

I think he plays the character perfectly, a little slow mentally is who Travis Bickle is

Very!