I Still Say That Move “Picnic” Is One of The Best Movies Made For 1960’s Nostalgia. Every Scene Invokes It For Me…

The houses, the way people dressed, screen doors that slam, porches, burning barrel by the side of a shed, the farmland and gardens, women drying their hair by hanging their head outside of their window in warm weather…the simple way people did things back then in small town America…and the angst to move away to a bigger city and start a new life, I remember my cousins doing it after high school, they knew there was more out there for them than just living in a small town. I caught the tail end of it just now and here I go again. I need to see the entire movie again.

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RenFur · 70-79, M

Certainly the best dance scene ever - even though Holden couldn't dance worth s**t. He admitted as much himself.

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RenFur · 70-79, M

@cherokeepatti Yes. It captured that feeling.

It's still an old movie - - by that I mean, some of the dialogue. Arthur O'Connell starts a few sentences with "Say" as in "Say, what are you up to?"

Ghostinthemachine · M

@RenFur apparently Holden got really drunk before shooting that scene because he was really nervous about doing it

RenFur · 70-79, M

@Ghostinthemachine

That explains a whole bunch.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

That movie was shot in the mid 50s in the Salina, Hutchinson area. interstate 70 through that part of Kansas was not filled in for another 10 to 15 years. What Picnic depicted was real for much of Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotas, Oklahoma, Texas.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Heartlander even in Missouri where I lived it seemed small towns were that way. People lived a much simpler and slower life. It was hard for those who were teachers, and that was one career option that was a stable one in small towns for young women back in that era, who wanted to get married and felt like life and marriage was passing them by. Picnic portrayed that too.

RenFur · 70-79, M

Screen doors that slam. That little detail evokes so much.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@RenFur And someone yelling not to slam the door and the screen door gets slammed anyway.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@RenFur Haaa...not all screen doors slam. Some just sag instead, once a 3 year old discovers how to ride it :)

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Heartlander oh boy we never did that. But I think I swung a few times on a regular door till I got caught.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

I can't say anything about that movie. Not that anyone would believe it. I still don't. 😆

RenFur · 70-79, M

@DeWayfarer

About movie people shenanigans??

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@RenFur no, a reaction to one of the actors that was likely inaccurate. Yet there were and are still some questions.

Ghostinthemachine · M

Yep

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