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14 Dec 2010, 4:20 am
Wallourdes wrote:
Kaybee wrote:
Wallourdes wrote:
I think Alice's Restaurants was a very funny story
The movie weirded me out.
It's a pretty weird story
It was a true story. If you could have "been there" and seen it "back in the day," you wouldn't have found it funny, but poignant.
It was a weird era, produced by many factors, including the despair we felt by the assassination of John F. Kennedy (Julian Lennon commented on just that in an interview I saw a little while back), whom many of us felt "represented" us younger people, because he was such a young president, and all the rest of the politicians were "old-men." We felt betrayed by the older generation, for letting us down, and "dropped out."
I was in the local hipster, hippie, motorcycle scene in the sixties, and that particular kind of story was, generally, "happening" around the US at the time, the Hippie Era. I saw the film first run; it was shown at a little "art-house" theater, and it was probably the only movie in town in those days that had a line of people like those that became prominent during the first Star Wars showings. All the hippie-experience oriented people showed up to see it, and the general comment at the time was "it's happening everywhere!"
I met Pete Seeger a couple times (he had known my warpipes teacher back in the 1950's in New York), and played a Scots bagpipe finale for one of his Hudson Valley Folk Picnics back in '68; he played himself in the film (as did most of the characters, including Officer Obie, IIRC!).
One of the feelings everyone then identified with was that of an "extended family," as there was a "generation gap" brewing that an old Indian yogi once described as "A tragedy worse than wars or natural disasters;" that was a factor contributing to the breakup of the sense of the traditional nuclear family, and many people left home to seek out a new imagination, like the lyrics to Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone.
Alices Restaurant was one of many stories of that era. A great, comprehensive video on the era was shown on PBS some years ago, and was entitled It was Twenty Years Ago Today...", and was evolved around the Beatle's music of the Seargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
Regards, Johnpipe
14 Dec 2010, 9:14 am
johnpipe108 wrote:
Wallourdes wrote:
Kaybee wrote:
Wallourdes wrote:
I think Alice's Restaurants was a very funny story
The movie weirded me out.
It's a pretty weird story
It was a true story. If you could have "been there" and seen it "back in the day," you wouldn't have found it funny, but poignant.
It was a weird era, produced by many factors, including the despair we felt by the assassination of John F. Kennedy (Julian Lennon commented on just that in an interview I saw a little while back), whom many of us felt "represented" us younger people, because he was such a young president, and all the rest of the politicians were "old-men." We felt betrayed by the older generation, for letting us down, and "dropped out."
I was in the local hipster, hippie, motorcycle scene in the sixties, and that particular kind of story was, generally, "happening" around the US at the time, the Hippie Era. I saw the film first run; it was shown at a little "art-house" theater, and it was probably the only movie in town in those days that had a line of people like those that became prominent during the first Star Wars showings. All the hippie-experience oriented people showed up to see it, and the general comment at the time was "it's happening everywhere!"
I met Pete Seeger a couple times (he had known my warpipes teacher back in the 1950's in New York), and played a Scots bagpipe finale for one of his Hudson Valley Folk Picnics back in '68; he played himself in the film (as did most of the characters, including Officer Obie, IIRC!).
One of the feelings everyone then identified with was that of an "extended family," as there was a "generation gap" brewing that an old Indian yogi once described as "A tragedy worse than wars or natural disasters;" that was a factor contributing to the breakup of the sense of the traditional nuclear family, and many people left home to seek out a new imagination, like the lyrics to Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone.
Alices Restaurant was one of many stories of that era. A great, comprehensive video on the era was shown on PBS some years ago, and was entitled It was Twenty Years Ago Today...", and was evolved around the Beatle's music of the Seargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
Regards, Johnpipe
Thank you very much for the explaination, you could really say this movie captured the zeitgeist of the Hippie Era. It's that I am from a later time so I can't really with that time, although I heard people say I should have been around in that time because of my way of thinking.
Cheerfully,
Wallourdes
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