Coming attractions for you 2020s most anticipated movies. Smooth talk is a 1985 american drama film directed by joyce chopra, loosely based on joyce carol oates 1966 short story where are you going, where have you been. Smooth talk definition of smooth talk by the free dictionary. Morality after watching the movie, my view of the story changed. An unexpected encounter with older man, a real smooth talker named arnold friend williams, who seems to know just where shes at and how to get to her, pushes connie to make a huge and ambivalent leap into adulthood with all its mixed rewards. Jay smooths ted talk reveals how he learned to love talking. A neglected masterpiece by a gifted director whose subsequent career was consigned to tv movies and series episodes. Fifteenyearold connie laura dern spends the summer before her sophomore year fixating on getting male attention. He honed his craft working in a bar band, the straitjackets, backing visiting blues giants such as sonny boy williamson ii, howlin wolf, lightnin hopkins, and jimmy reed.
Laura dern plays a teenager anxious to experience the pleasures of sexual contact. You can look at them and almost literally see the need in their eyes. Smooth talk topictheme analysis stevens ap literature. Williams is intense and believable and totally creepy as an older man who seduces her. I originally felt bad and sorry for connie for going through the situation with arnold friend. If you want to be smooth with the ladies, practice being cool and confident. Bedrohliches gefluster smooth talk trailer 1985, german. Smooth talk is based on a short story by joyce carol oates, who so often finds the materials of classic tragedy in the lives of everyday people. Dern herself achieves this in smooth talk in her centerpiece scene with treat williams.
Smooth talk fifteenyearold connie laura dern spends the summer before her sophomore year fixating on getting male attention. In the 2019 interview, however, dern said that she realizes with hindsightand after having filmed the talethat this was naive. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on youtube. Smooth talk spends the first half of its run time developing the dern character, showing her to be a typically more or less rebellious, angstfilled, brittle teen who is just discovering boys and dating when an unexpected encounter with a smooth talker williams forces her to take a quantum leap toward maturity. While her mother, katherine mary kay place, nags her about painting the house and favors her older sister, connie spends her days going to the mall with her friends. The main character is a 15yearold girl with a normal interest in boys her own age. Smooth talk trailer 1985 video detective movie trailers. That scene is done so beautifully by dern and treat williams that one never forgets it. Smooth talk synonyms, smooth talk pronunciation, smooth talk translation, english dictionary definition of smooth talk. Smooth talk 1985 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. One day, while the rest of her family is having a barbeque, connie is confronted at home by a handsome.
Comparison of smooth talk to where are you going, where. The protagonist and main character, connie wyatt, is played by laura dern. Her mom does nothing but put her down and her father ignores the completely dysfunctional family. An unforgettable stunningly honest performance by a young laura dern as a teenage girl awakening to the exciting and frightening world of sexuality. Smooth talk spends the first half of its run time developing the dern character, showing her to be a typically more or less rebellious, angstfilled, brittle teen who is just discovering boys and dating when an unexpected encounter with a smooth talker williams forces her to take a. Smooth talk was evelyn champagne kings debut album and she was a mere 17 years old upon her discovery and the albums release in 1977. Smooth talk by joyce chopra joyce chopra, treat williams. Smooth talk is the adaptation of that work and is pretty well done it holds the attention of modernday teens which is saying something. She is a perfect example of when youve got the talent it is inbred and pure. We deal with race and prejudice with this all or nothing, good personbad person binary, in which either you are racist or you are not racist, smooth says. According to smallwood, at the time smooth talk was released, dern gave a defiant interview in which she stated her belief that the two of them did just go for a drive. Feb, 2011 where are you going, where have you been.
Available on dvd from freespirited fifteenyearold connie wyatt laura dern may be too young to drive, but shes already. Joyce chopra cast treat williams, laura dern, mary kay place a freespirited. Fifteen yearold connie a nubile laura dern and her friends use their summer break in northern california to experiment. If you like smooth talk you are looking for psychological, tense and serious movies about with coming of age, small town, innocence lost, summer, sexual awakening, teenage life and teenage love themes of drama, romance and thriller genre shot in uk or usa. I do not recommend this movie, this movie left us feeling very disturbed, to say the least. Smooth radio plays your relaxing music mix, the very best music from the past six decades. An early draft of my short story where are you going, where have you been.
We loved fright night while we were growing up and used to follow all the actors work. For the best experience please update your browser. Delbert mcclinton is a blues musician born 4 november 1940, in lubbock, texas. Unlike many rude and crude movies about teenagers in. According to smallwood, at the time smooth talk was released, dern gave a defiant interview in. Smooth talk nude scenes naked pics and videos at mr. For example, even if youre nervous while talking to a girl, keep a straight face, which will make you seem confident. Following the success of freddie mercury biopic bohemian rhapsody and elton john movie rocketman, the next big musical film is likely to be about the gibb brothers. Courtesy of janus filmsphotofestthe new retrospective at the brooklyn academy of music, punks, poets, and valley girls offers such an abundance of stylistic and narrative throughlines that its hard to distill them.
Its certainly an oldie but had managed to hold onto its relevance thanks to oates. Nov 17, 2011 in the talk, called how i learned to stop worrying and love discussing race, smooth says its sometimes difficult to talk about race because were taking the wrong approach. While her mother, katherine mary kay place, nags her about painting the house. Dont judge a book by its movie is another common jab. A new movie about the bee gees is in the works, and a huge hollywood star is apparently tipped to play barry gibb.
The film, smooth talk, is a tale about a 15year old girl, connie wyatt, who begins to explore her sexuality. Her mom does nothing but put her down and her father ignores the completely dysfunctional family dynamic. Dern, who was in her mid to lateteens while filming smooth talk, was convinced while filming it that when her character, connie, gets into the car with arnold, she does not actually get raped even though the movie otherwise strongly implies that. Smooth talk is a 1985 american drama film directed by joyce chopra, loosely based on joyce carol oates 1966 short story where are you going, where. Listen across the uk on 97108 fm, digital, online, in hd on our a. Smooth talk 2006 fifteenyearold connie laura dern spends the summer before her sophomore year fixating on getting male attention. The story and film were both made to relate to the real life serial killer charles ho. It was cast in a mode of fiction to which i am still partialindeed, every third or fourth story of mine is probably in this. This was a project for my junior year english class. This movies only known purpose is to stupefy its audience with its perplexed meaning if there actually is a meaning at all for anyone who actually pretends to understand smooth talk one only has to watch the film with to prove them wrong. Comparison of smooth talk to where are you going, where have you been. Connie, the heroine in smooth talk, is a girl like that. Smooth talk 1985 smooth talk 1985 smooth talk 1985 the image could not be loaded.
Even though time has changed technology, the subjects of acceptance and teenparent relationships is timeless. Still, its almost shocking to find a film that deals so purely with the real fears and desires of young people who are too knowing to. Try to react to almost everything casually, as if its completely natural. Although the movie is shocking, it is not sensational in the way it might have been if it had been handled as a horror story, say, instead of as a morality play. Left alone in the family summer cottage when her mother. A comparison of smooth talk, a movie and where are you. Winner of the grand jury prize at sundance, smooth talk was adapted. Watch smooth talk online stream full movie directv. William ragsdale was one of our favorite actors from the 1985 horror film fright night. Released june 26th, 2006, smooth talk stars laura dern, treat williams, mary kay place, margaret welsh the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 32 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. We loved fright night while we were growing up and. So much that it is one of the most discussed pieces of literature ever. While her mother, katherine mary kay place, nags her about.
Jan 25, 2017 provided to youtube by sony music entertainment smooth talk evelyn champagne king smooth talk expanded edition. The drama smooth talk 1985 stars laura dern as connie, a fifteenyearold girl whose sexual awakening is spurred on by her relationship with older man arnold friend treat williams, who may not be as innocuous as he seems. Smooth talk reminds you that even movies about and for teenagers dont have to deal in such tradeoffs i. Joyce carol oakess short story, where are you going, where have you been. However, after the movie, i felt that connie had deserved to be punished and that arnold friend surved a moral purpose in this story.
Without spoiling it too much, she exudes an almost unbearably tense mixture of fear, arousal, and confusion that makes the rest of the movie or maybe the rest of movies seem belabored. The book was better is a phrase heard often in conversations about booktofilm adaptations. Smooth talk is based on a short story by joyce carol oates which tom cole has adapted for the screen. Metrograph is a new manhattan movie theater devoted to screening archivequality 35mm prints and new films in stateoftheart digital projection. Smooth talk 2006 stream and watch online moviefone. Smooth talk is screening as part of metrograph a to z. Smooth talk is one of the few films ever made whose climactic scene takes place on the borderline between reality and the imagination. As a sophomore in high school, she longs to get into the world as most teens do. Produced for pbss american playhouse series, smooth talk was given a brief theatrical release before its official february 9, 1987 tv debut.
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