<p>I loved LS back then and still enjoy it for many reasons now, but I think it’s fair to point out that the viewing experience is going to be an entirely different one for a contemporary audience. The dialogue, the expressions, and manners of speech, may not sound authentic or ring true to us any longer. It can seem overacted to us by today’s standards, maybe a throwback to the theater style of acting, where the voice had to carry over long distances. The technology, the editing, the writing and the directing have all evolved over the years, too, so that it’s easy to feel very underwhelmed by what was at the time, state of the art filmmaking and cinematography. Current audiences would certainly not find the plot of the movie compelling or authentic even though it was fresh and original for the time.</p>
<p>I remember seeing A Beautiful Mind and looking at my watch a lot and that a combination of warm fleece and uninteresting movie came very close on several occasions to sending me to sleep. Couldn’t believe it got Best Picture.</p>
<p>And this year…have you seen Juno? I thought it was really good…so different. And Ellen Page, who is nominated for best actress for her role, is very talented.</p>
<p>“Love means never having to say you’re sorry”
Anybody who believed that is now divorced.</p>
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Really! Tweety bird thwowed up.</p>
<p>I don’t remember LOVE STORY being fresh for the time. I remember thinking it treacly awfulness then too.</p>
<p>LS- The dialogue is so amateurish. I cringed during the medical office scene. Since when does a doctor tell a spouse that the other “is dying” before telling the patient? And wouldn’t you have some questions, like “what does she have?” And then tells the spouse that sooner or later the patient will find out/have to be told. Really? Was this conceptualized by a 12 year old? </p>
<p>And after sitting outside in the freezing snow watching H skate around (OK, now that’s something I’d want to do if I only had a little time left), silently, uncomplaining… when H asks, “where do you want to go now?”, saying, “to the hospital.” Again, did a 12 year old think this up? And the long drawn out scene of them walking across a field of snow. I thought that they were on the side of a street. Why couldn’t she just rest while he gets the car? The entire movie, we’ve been watching him pick her up and carry her around, and NOW she walks? Why not, “Pick me up, you g<strong>d</strong>* preppie” like she’s been telling him to do the entire movie?</p>
<p>LOL, THAT was funny, doubleplay!</p>
<p>LS made me sick to my stomach the first time I saw it…OMG could it anymore sappy or unrealistic? The only realistic part was that the Dad thought she was beneath him…I can at least see wealthy families acting that way. </p>
<p>I am with doubleplay, the script was horrible, but it was a different time than.
And how many shows/movies have we seen over the years based on it.</p>
<p>At least we did get Gore to say he was the roommate based on the story</p>
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<p>“Love Story” means you’re never filming here again. After Love Story, Harvard banned the filming of any more movies or TV shows on campus. I guess they hated it too.</p>
<p>coureur, that may be true about interior shots but there have been many films since LS which have filmed exterior shots on Harvard’s campus.</p>
<p>Doubleplay…now they’d tell the patient but in those days (up 'til the mid 70’s) it was not unusual for people not to be told <em>at all</em> that their days were numbered. I guess they thought people would just give up hope or something – never mind getting your affairs in order. I read a lot of books/see movies from earlier eras and there’s often a scene where a doctor breaks the bad news and they decide it’s better the patient shouldn’t know. (See Dark Victory for one).</p>
<p>Even earlier, a doctor might not even tell the patient all the options. I had a grandmother who had a spinal problem in the 40’s and my grandfather never told her that they could fix <em>everything</em> with 2 operations so she only ever had the emergency one because he couldn’t handle taking care of the kids while she was in the hospital. The doctor left it up to Grandad to decide what to do and never told Grandma anything about it. If that had been me, <em>Grandad</em> would have wound up with the spinal problem!</p>
<p>I knew that before HIPAA things were a lot looser, but it’s surprising that as recently as the 70’s patients were ‘kept in the dark’. I’ve seen the same kind of situation presented in soaps and other melodramas, and I always thought it was just a device. I wouldn’t like a doctor to do that (or a husband).</p>
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It’s especially cruel to not know, because although a disease might be incurable, by not knowing, a patient could be doing things, taking certain OTCs, eating certain foods, that could exacerbate the discomfort associated with the disease. Alternatively, she might be able to do things that would have a palliative effect, or add to her quality of life.</p>
<p>I think this year’s Atonement is at least as bad as Love Story.</p>
<p>Love is never having to say that one long shot of a CGI Dunkirk does not make a Best Picture.</p>
<p>I did not like Atonement either.</p>
<p>I didn’t like it when I was watching it, but it has grown on me a bit. I agree, the Dunkirk section was endless.</p>
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<p>You see exterior shots from across the street (i.e. from off campus) - often from the other side of Mass. Ave. And overhead helicopter shots as in Legally Blonde are also done. But you never see any more movies filmed on Harvard property. Nothing from inside Harvard Yard. The have a pretty strict policy against it. </p>
<p>The usual movie or stand-in for the Harvard campus in the walking-to-class scene is often USC.</p>
<p>I was saddened by two movies at the same time: Love Story and another one that I don’t know the title on another channel. I switched back and forth between the two during the last 15 minutes of the movies. In that movies a girl decided to skip college application to find the marrow donor for her boyfriend who later died because of leukemia. Does anyone know the title?</p>
<p>I am out of my league and not really qualified to comment, but being qualified to comment is, as we know, not a requirement on CC. If it were Fundingfather would not have anything to say. </p>
<p>I have to believe, I mean I just have to believe, Love Story had to be the worst movie ever nominated for best picture. I mean, really, it had to be.</p>
<p>“Love means never having to say you’re sorry”</p>
<p>Anybody who believed that is now divorced.</p>
<p>My nomination for Best Post of the Thread</p>
<p>coureur, the son of a friend (he grew up on Cambridge) filmed and acted in a movie that had exteriors filmed outside Dunster House, not across the street. I recall him talking about having been given a tour inside after a day’s shooting, and getting to see the room where Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were roommates. Interestingly, much of that movie was filmed in Toronto with the Univ. of Toronto filling in for Harvard except for those Dunster House scenes. </p>
<p>In addition to that one, I know that The Great Debaters, which was filmed last summer, also filmed at Harvard, both interior and exterior.</p>