American Graffiti (1973) Movie Reaction/*FIRST TIME WATCHING* "What a Beautiful Movie !!"
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Great reaction. Sorry it took me so long yo catch up with your channel, but I wanted to see if many people did a reaction to this film, one of my all-time favorites and that's my good friend,Paul playing John and my good friend Candy playing Debbie. She was nominated for an Oscar for her role. Going to send them your reaction. Best wishes. 👍
Oh holy smokes thank you so much Robert that means so much to me :) and I hope they enjoy the reaction loved all performances !.
@@JCARTSARTS982 my pleasure. They've done a lot of good films, but AG seems to be the one everyone remembers most. Candy's favorite of her performances is in THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH alongside David Bowie and,Paul's are in ALOHA, BOBBY AND ROSE and MELVIN AND HOWARD in case you're searching for further insights into their acting chops. I'm now subscribed. 👍
Tell Paul his character was my hero. This is my dad's generation and the stories-omg. my age group created our own. Fast Times at Ridgemont High/Breakfast Club. All real. These newer gens dont have anyhting to really look back on. When u play it safe and whine about feelings, our 2 gens arent gonna listen. lol
This was George Lucas' Second Film! It made $140 million dollars against a $777,000 budget! It's now part of the National Film Registry and try Library Of Congress. Nominated for 5 Oscars including Best Picture but lost to THE STING. It did win Best Picture, Musical or comedy at the Golden Globes.
I first saw this movie on a passenger jet over the Pacific Ocean. Years later when I watched "Airport '75" for the first time, this was their in-flight movie too. When Lucas showed his finished cut to the studio executives, they pronounced it "unreleaseable" due to its unorthodox storytelling and editing style. Little did they know...The DJ character was legendary real-life DJ Wolfman Jack. The blonde in the T-bird was Suzanne Somers, who would gain superstardom as Chrissie on "Three's Company." Future director Ron Howard of course is iconic in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days", and Cindy Williams would play Shirley in "Laverne and Shirley." Mackenzie Phillips went on to co-star in "One Day At A Time." Richard Dreyfuss sealed his burgeoning stardom as Hooper in "Jaws." It isn't a true story per se, just based on people and events from George Lucas' teen years.
In fact, Cindy Williams so impressed George Lucas from this film, and Francis Coppola from 1974's "The Conversation", she was originally Lucas's first pick to play Princess Leia.
@@ericjanssen394 Cindy Williams was at one point a cocktail waitress at The Whiskey A Go Go. her first customer was Jim Morrison. Little fun fact.
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Well, she was one of his choices to audition, anyway....reading lines opposite Harrison Ford, who, of course, was eventually decided on and convinced to play the roll of Solo....as he was really only brought in to read lines. Lucky us! 😊
Nice that you reacted to this classic. Great cameos all around. The radio station dj is a legend. He is Wolfman Jack. Look him up. Take care and keep up the great job on here.
For a little kid growing up during those times, these were the older kids; brothers , sisters, aunts and uncles. If you were on main street Friday nights and weekends, this is what was going on. Who had the fastest car and where the local quarter mile was. Today's street racing or Street Outlaws? Studio heads had doubts about Lucas' filmmaking abilities though a preview was met with great response. The cast and soundtrack are legendary. Love the ending song, All Summer Long by The Beach Boys. Thank for the reaction as not many reactors have. :)
The girl at 6:44 is Debralee Scott, who would play Mary's younger sister Cathy in the classic soap opera spoof "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and was also one of the Sweathogs in "Welcome Back, Kotter."
Rosalee "Hotsy" Totsy
And died at a young age in 2005.
This the era my late Father grew up in. He said it was a great time but looming over every young man was the threat of being drafted and going to Vietnam.
This is my favorite George Lucas movie. The story is a coming of age story but I think of it more as a teen comedy. I credit Lucas with creating the template for modern teen comedies the same way Star Wars created a new template for space operas. I'm completely on the same wavelength with the humor in this movie. It's not over the top but it is funny. Toad trying to buy alcohol was comedy gold. Have you ever tried to buy something you're not supposed to, so you add a bunch of random items hoping they just ring it all up and say nothing? I have. All the humor feels true to the characters. The visuals and soundtrack are fantastic too. This movie proves that Lucas can create memorable visuals without needing special effects to do it.
This was George Lucas first movie
@@willowb1527 His second. THX 1138 was his first.
It's hilarious that this movie has Harrison Ford lobbing insults at the director of Solo.
Great reaction to a great pick! Love ensemble coming-of-age odysseys like this and "Dazed and Confused."
"Dazed And Confused" is totally it's cousin, I love that you mention it! The two movies together tell a story about radical culture change between the 50s and the 60s (the decade that looms over both movies in an unspoken way).
I really enjoy films like this where it is usually just conversations. Plus the fact that it basically takes place in a limited number of locations in a limited amount of time. Which are bonus points for me, but would love to see what the original 180 minute cut would have been like.
Most of the on-air banter you hear from Wolfman jack was taken from clips of his actual shows. One bit was created for the movie and that's the phone-in to the pizza parlor, the proprietor is played by George Lucas.
Another interesting fact about Wolfman Jack is that during the scene when the Pharaohs are speculating about where Wolfman is actually located the little guy states that he heard that he is south of the border where the cops cant catch him and he blasts that stuff all over the valley.
Which was actually the truth. The reason he could get away with some of the raunchier stuff he was doing was because he was literally south of the border blasting a very powerful AM signal up through Southern California.
Another detail was that he simply could not act and they had a very difficult time getting enough footage of him that they could actually use. Knowing that, it's seems like a miracle it came off as good as it did.
In one of the first scenes where we start to meet all the characters Ron Howard tells the story of when asked Lucas for some direction for how he wanted the scene to play out, Lucas told him to just be natural and that he would do all the directing in the editing room.
Written by Willard Hyuck and Gloria Katz, who also wrote INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM!
I love the relationship between John and Carol. Very sweet.
The characters are fictitious, but they are basic archetypes. This is a bittersweet movie for me. It was the end of an era. A year later, JFK was assassinated. The British Invasion displaced American Rock n' roll and Vietnam became an American war, with a psychedelic soundtrack. Riots and more assassinations followed. It all came to a head in Chicago in 1968. I moved to San Francisco and dropped acid in Big Sur. The ending of the movie was emotionally overwhelming, as we found out what happened to the protagonists. My best friend felt the same way.
Lucas said 3 of the 4 leads (not the Steve character) were based in Lucas and different points growing up. Terry the Toad was probably him starting out in high school as a nerd then he got a cool car and raced around and they was John. Then went he went to college that was Kurt.
What a classic saw at the theater several times thanks for sharing your reaction always a good time here also I was at a liquor store once and asked for a bottle of old Harper and the guy working there got a good laugh he remembered the movie, thanks again!
the scene in the beginning when “toad” runs his vespa into the machine was unscripted .
I got my driver's license in 1976 near the end of the cruising era .
So many classic cars out back then on Friday and Saturday night .
We had good music and fast cars .
I was at the local premier. I have two friends in this, Paul LeMat (John Milner with the Yellow coupe) and Candy Clark (Debbie Dunham, the girl who gets in the car while Toad is driving Steve's car).
Wow! It must feel like you're connected to a part of Americana history.
blonde in the white Tbird was played by suzanne somers
First off, THANK YOU for being one of the very few people to react to this masterpiece. I wish I saw this sooner so that I could make this comment.
1.) 3:08-3:33 It's very impressive that you picked up on the subtext of John Milner's words because NOBODY does. Yes, indeed, Milner is depressed that life is changing and that everyone's leaving and going on to bigger and better things and he isn't. He wants to be 17 forever but he knows deep down he's getting too old (he's 20) to keep up the racer/greaser act, especially when he realizes he was actually losing the race to Harrison Ford before he lost control of his car.
2.) An interesting fact about this film is that it changed film editing forever. The movie has 4 subplots and cuts back-and-forth between them. No film had ever been edited this way prior-- in fact, the studio didn't want to release the film because of it. But after the film's success, countless movies borrowed this exact narrative structure. In fact, if you watch any episode of a TV show, it's edited this exact way with a few minutes of the "A-story", then a few minutes of the "B-story", then a few minutes of the "C-story" (if one exists), then back to more of the "A-story", then back to the "B-story" etc. They do this in "The Simpsons", "Family Guy", "Seinfeld", "Breaking Bad", "Games of Thrones" etc. Another cool piece of trivia at 9:08, John Milner's license plate is "THX 138", a reference to George Lucas's student film at USC which he later adapted into his first feature film "THX-1138" from 1971.
3.) Lastly, the film is based on George Lucas's teenage years but it's not JUST about that. Surface-wise, it seems like a simple fun teen movie, but it's actually an incredibly layered story about American history from 1962-1972. Believe it or not, the depressing end title cards at 23:11 (that throws everyone for a loop) were actually the ENTIRE point of the film-- as it shapes the context of when the movie was set (1962) and when the movie was made (produced in 1972, released in '73). It's been 3 months since you watched this (so you might have forgotten certain details) and you may never even see this comment, but I hope you do read this because it's fascinating and well worth reading:
THE ANALYSIS
George Lucas based the script on his teen years growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s-- known as the '50s "Americana" years. This time period in American history was considered the years of America's "innocence". The '50s was the first decade following America's victory in World War II. The Second World War and all the businesses on the home front that created supplies for the war effort is what pulled America out of the poverty of the Great Depression. All the servicemen came home from the war to start families, which led to the baby boom, the housing boom, and the economic boom of the 1950s. It was a time period of great economic prosperity in America, and thus a very optimistic time period to grow up in, hence America's "innocence".
The story takes place in 1962 for a reason, as it was the last year of America's innocence due to John F. Kennedy being assassinated the following year (Nov 1963). And the suspicion that it may have been a government conspiracy had shaken many Americans' trust in authority overall. And it was all downhill from there. The Vietnam War escalated heavily and America entered the war not long after (1964). The war divided America right down the middle with half supporting it, half opposing it. After '62, America also saw the rises of the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture movement, the experimental drug culture, the feminist movement, the gay rights movement, the sexual revolution, the hippie culture, the anti-war movement, the environmental movement etc. It was a time period of great division and a lot of violence surrounded that division. And also, the economic boom of the '50s led to a major recession in America in the 1970s-- it was a very pessimistic time period in America when the film was made. The ENTIRE culture of America had shifted in just 10 short years (1962 to 1972). It went from a period of optimism (1962) to a period of pessimism (1972).
The whole movie of "American Graffiti" was about change. It wasn't just about the coming-of-age of the young characters-- the film was also a microcosm of the coming-of-age of America as a whole. John Milner (the greaser with the Model-T Ford) was the oldest character of the group (age 20) who only wanted to have fun and didn't want to grow up, but he slowly started to realize that he was getting too old to still be a greaser cruising the strip. Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) was very hesitant about leaving for college the next day because it meant leaving his childhood and his high school years behind. When Curt is at "The Hop" dance, he wanders the halls and tries to open up his old high school locker-- the reason it didn't open was because back then school lockers had their combo locks changed at the end of every school year to prevent theft by the lockers' previous owners. The locker was symbolism representing Curt's childhood and his high school years. By not being able to open his locker, Curt was being symbolically "locked out" of his childhood with life forcing him to grow up and to get on that plane for the next stage of his life (college). John Milner complains about listening to a Beach Boys song on the radio, saying "I hate that surfer shhhh. Rock 'n' roll has been going downhill since Buddy Holly died." This marked the beginning of the end of the '50s Americana era and its music and marked the transition of American culture to the next era (late '60s/'70s). Also, while riding in the car (before Curt gets kicked out at 8:54), Curt's ex gf says "Curt's greatest ambition is to shake hands with President Kennedy." This line represented America's fleeting innocence in 1962, as they had no idea he'd be assassinated the following year. There's a lot of symbolism like this throughout the movie, the script has a LOT of subtext on the themes of change. Knowing this context, it's a whole new movie if you ever decide to rewatch it.
But yea, soon after '62, the cruising and car culture had disappeared, upbeat '50s rock and roll was replaced by '60s counterculture music, '50s and early '60s optimism was replaced by late '60s and '70s pessimism. That's why we see the "depressing" title cards at the end of the film with John Milner being killed in a car crash, Terry the Toad (the nerd) becomes missing in action while fighting in Vietnam, and Curt living in Canada as a writer-- like many young people, he moved to Canada to avoid being drafted into Vietnam. That depressing ending contextualizes the whole movie, as the themes and subtext of the film was actually about America's drastic change and radical shift in culture. This is why it's considered one of the best screenplays ever written and one of the best movies in American cinema.
Right, this time it's not just a coming-of-age film in which characters lose their innocence - it's our culture losing a sense of innocence.
Loved your reaction.
Most of the actors in this movie went on to become popular TV or movie stars. There are too many to mention, but Ron Howard who played Steve was a former kid star, stared in the TV series Happy Days set in the 50s, and then became a famous director of several known movies such as Apollo 13 and Parenthood.
Parenthood was one best movies of all time. Love Steve Martin lol.
Ron Howard also played Opie in The Andy Griffith Show.
Awesome that you picked this to watch. More reactors need to pull some older films out that no one else have watched. I haven’t seen this in many, many years. I must have watched it many times as every scene was familiar. I forgot how much i like this film. Do some more of these that would never come in on a poll. Be the first.
You are the first reactor that I saw who even understood what was going on. Other reactors are confused by the lingo, by the actions of the characters, reading deep, profound meanings into the lines (meanings that are not there). But you just got it, the way we all did when it first came out in the theaters. :)
I just noticed that Falfa said, "You'll be hanging on to me for mercy when I get this sucker rolling". How true.
"You want some liquor? ... Yeah I know, you lost your ID"
I'm pretty sure the experience of under age teens trying to buy alcohol is universal.
As a 13/14 year old here in Scotland back in the 80s, I and my fellow young teens would club together to try and get someone (an older brother/sister/teen/anyone) to buy some booze from an off-licence ("liquor store" I believe is the US name?). A half bottle of vodka was the preferred choice. We'd then mix that with a carton of orange juice and share it between us; outdoors of course in all seasons. Good times!
P.S. see also - smoking - I started smoking basically because all the girls I fancied also smoked... Thankfully, I never really did it seriously and stopped by the time I was 20 or so.
When I was a teenager we would do that very thing. Stand outside the convenience store and ask people to buy us some beer 🍺 👌 😋.
Vitamin C enhanced liquor
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Yep.... we did that too!
I grew up in Tennessee in the 1970s. We bought liquor and beer and rarely got carded. Apparently, Tennessee didn't care about our safety in the 1970s.
John Milner one of the coolest movie characters ever!
Such a great movie....I own it on DVD!
So many stories connected to this film...the making of, how the actors got the rolls....and the further story of how it lead to Harrison Ford getting Star Wars.
Yes, that was the real Wolfman Jack....Google his bio if you don't know.
This was Lucas's second film, the first being "THX 1138", which was a full length version of his notably overly long for the assignment (20 mins) film school project. And, BTW, George was/is friends with Coppola because they, as well as Steven Spielberg went to USC Film School together......Lucas couldn't find a studio to take on this film so he turned to his friend, FFC, who had just finished filming The Godfather.
No, this is not based on a true story...those notes at the end were just an interest technique, later used on many films in the next decade of the '80s.....rather, it was an ode to the cruising culture of George Lucas's youth......and yes, a "coming of age" story filled with character development.
So many unique filming and production techniques that George used in this!
You should really watch a "making of" video for this....they're out there, and very interesting!
My two favorite things.........movies and Hot Rods.
Really enjoyed your reaction thanks
Thank you so much glad you enjoyed :) !!!
Hopefully some of these will help you.
1. Pantsing and mooning were big all the way into the late 70's. Back when they still made cars.
2. Candy Clark/Debbie would worth a look-see😍😋
3. My 1979 prom had live band covering the current top music. Timeframe wise, That didn't suck.
4. We used to do the Chinese fire drills too. Late 70s
5. Back in the day in most towns there was only one pop radio station.
(Remember this is before FM)
6, Rock DJs were a big deal. Wolman Jack was bigger than just Modesto.
7. RIP Cindy Williams😇
8. Cruising was HUGE.
9. The hot blonde in the car is Susanne Summers.
10. I haven't seen this for a while so thanks for bringing me back.
Thank you, thank you.! You're the first reactor I've watched who's kept in my absolute favorite scene. Curt visits the radio station and the DJ tells him he's not the Wolfman. Then as Curt's leaving he hears Wolfman Jack's voice and looks back through the window. It's Wolfman Jack himself doing an awesome song intro.
“The first time I got drunk, I threw up for 8 hours straight.” Lol. That must be an exaggeration.
unfortunately not lmao, No joke I kept throwing up possibly due to alcohol poisining !!
F*** me! American Graffiti? I thought the world had forgotten about this film. It was actually a huge hit in 1973, Lucas's first (since THX 1138 did terribly in its first run). It is full of early roles for actors like Harrison Ford and Richard Dreyfuss. Yeah I'm down for watching this. Cheers.
Thank you so much for watching :) !! hope you enjoy the reaction Francis !.
@@JCARTSARTS982 It was an enjoyable watch. Nice to hear that you recognised what a great character piece it was. I'll bet you didn't realise that much of it was improvised.
Great reaction to a movie with an incredible soundtrack.
A superb choice of movie. I think you may the first CZcams content creator to react to it. My compliments to you.
Alexa Chipman and Shanelle Riccio have both done great reactions to "American Graffiti"; Alexa even did the sequel and then went to the original film locations (which she lives near) and made a video of them. Shanelle's reaction: czcams.com/video/y-OXDfzHsfw/video.html / Alexa's concise A.G. reaction: czcams.com/video/yPgtuT_wXno/video.html They were the first two reaction videos I ever watched.
...so have Ashleigh Burton, Casual Nerd and Rob Squad; all are worth a watch.
@@ArtamStudio Yes, NOW they have.
Living a Rockabilly lifestyle for a long time, this is my favourite 50's/60's style movie. I was lucky to live through the UK Rockabilly explosion of the late 70's early 80's. All the Rock n roll/rockabilly dances at the weekends, miss the vibe, the cats, and the atmosphere of those days.
Now you know why the Mandelorian gave baby Yoda the knob from his console.
This is the epitome of the 60s car culture and middle class America. I'm 77 years old and experienced everything you saw in the movie...but not all in one night. Some points: most people didn't go to college. You went into the military or went to work for a company with the expectation of retiring in 40 or 50 years. Your car was your identity and,yes, I had a badass '55 chev like Harrison Ford but never raced in town...that was stupid. Oh, the girls were all cute. Few people were obese as you pretty much walked everywhere until you got your own car. Anyway, I enjoyed your reaction and commentary. Keep up the good work. Oh, if you want to see us 10 years younger, watch The Sandlot.
The characters in the film are all fictional, but the events are loosely based on Lucas' experiences as a teenager in California.
Yesh... Truth is this is about as true as Fargo. It is a believable story though.
I like to have your face when it played wolfman and howling. But yeah the dude sitting at the controls is wolfman Jack. But he didn't want people to know that he was wolfman so he would tell people oh no it's all taped beforehand. I don't know who wolfman is. he wanted to leave wolfman a mystery which is awesome. May he rest in peace gone way too soon. They'll never be another wolfman. Ever as good as him.
Pay no attention to that Wolfman behind the curtain.
I'm 18 & this is one of my favorite movies 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🔥🔥🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
bEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME !!!!!
The ending is actually cannon to the American Graffiti story. Watch “More American Graffiti” and everyone’s fate is revealed. The only sad story arc is John Milner.
They're fictional postscripts. However, MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI is pretty decent sequel.
The red headed guy you said you didn't like who was manhandling his girlfriend is actor, producer and famous director Ron Howard (Apollo 13) and after this movie he was cast in the TV show based on the 50s with the Fonz called Happy Days! His girlfriend Cindy Williams was also cast in the series Laverne & Shirley and the young guy who liked the blonde in the white car and ended up with the gang is Richard Dreyfus (Jaws, Close Encounter of the Third Kind, What About Bob?) Harrison Ford had never acted before and this was his introduction to film and screen.
Don't forget Ron Howard was a star before this movie- in The Andy Griffith Show, as Opie.
@@kentclark6420 As well as other movies and productions. His entire life has been either in front of or behind the camera.
Actually, Harrison's first film role was a bellhop in the crime comedy "Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round".
And the blond in the T-Bird is Suzanne Somers.
The gearshift scene: That's in The Madalorian
you need to see “more american graffiti “
Right on! Then there's "Dazed and Confused" about coming of age n 70's, then "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" 4 80's, then I got old, sooo...??? Another GREAT choice! Happy Solstice & Merry X-mas, J-Cart Mofos!!! 🙏 ✌ ❤ 🚬 🎄
Haha Merry X-Mas to you too and oh yeah I really need to see Dazed and Confused too I have heard about that one !.
"Fast Times" actually is based on fact. Writer Cameron Crowe went back to high school for a year disguised as a teenager and wrote about what he saw. It's a fascinating non-fiction book, altered somewhat of course for the movie version.
Yeah this is where George Lucas discovered Harrison Ford to decide that he was gonna be Han Solo
And that almost cost Ford the role of Indiana Jones, as Lucas didn't want to be overly associated with a particular actor. It took Tom Selleck not being able to get out of his Magnum PI contract for Lucas to agree to go to Ford.
Great fun! And there's a sequel!
best movie ever , great music , cars , and storyline
You can also react to the sequel "More American Graffiti" from 1979.
We love this movie
That guy,,,,is Director RON HOWARD.
Haha I know I say that in the uncut version of this reaction I was like "Holy smokes that guy is Ron Howard !!" though I didn't know he had an acting career I just thought he was a director which was a surprise !.
@@JCARTSARTS982 Ron and his brother were both childhood actors ,Ron was on andy Griffith show for along time and of course long running happy days and various 70s movies his brother clint was a kid and on a famous episode of 60s star trek ,and other various 70s and 80s movie ,clint was in rock and roll high school movie with the Ramones, the when Ron was directing he would find cameos for clint in his movies
@@jayconant3816 Clint is the tv producer with hair plugs in the ron howard directed, EdTV. Also hilarious as one of the hardcore fans in Waterboy.
Their Dad Rance is also in everything.
@@jayconant3816 Ron has said "By the time I became a director, I already knew everything that actors talk about behind the director's back."
I love your comment about Candy Clark being cute because she's probably your grandmother's age now. Modern make-up can make a lot of meh women attractive, but there's timeless beauty that even women from nearly 200 years ago still radiate in photography and film.
It just hit me why I love this reaction so much: this didn't win a poll or anything, it was a movie you WANTED to watch. Dude, do that ANYTIME you want. I love it when reactors follow their own muse, their own taste, their own interests. Some reactors don't do requests or polls at all, and some only do what wins polls. When it's a hybrid of both, it's better because it gives each channel it's own flavor and we also get a sense of the reactor's tastes. Ok, enough from me; I just got jazzed seeing one of my faves. PS: By the way, along with A.G., the other movies I routinely cite as favorites all come from the early 70s. One is another 1973 film, "Paper Moon" and the other is the 1971 Jack Nicholson movie "Carnal Knowledge". And I love that everyone is mentioning "Dazed And Confused"! Definitely see that soon, just so you can get the impact of how much culture changed during the decade between. The music. The cars. The attitudes towards sex and drugs. Teachers and students. Etc. THANKS AGAIN, BRO!
'The Last Picture Show', and 'The Trip' would be another couple of cult classics good to react to.
@@kentclark6420 I prefer "Paper Moon" to "Last Picture Show"....and "Psych Out" to "The Trip"! Ever see "Psych Out"? Jack Nicholson with a pony tail, playing a bass player in a psychedelic rock & roll band, LOL. Him and Dean Stockwell, freaking HILARIOUS.
@@TTM9691 Is Psych Out the one where they have nude go go dancers with body paint, in a groovy-type night club? I've done a lot of drugs over the years so my memory isn't what it used to be, ha ha. Sounds like a movie I'd enjoy! I really like Paper Moon, too. I'd say about a tossup. So many good classic films. Summer of '42, Easy Rider, Tommy, Cuckoo's Nest, Billy Jack, Scarecrow, Bound for Glory, Alice's Restaurant. Btw, I lived across the street from Peter Fonda's yacht berth, but never met him. He would occasionally take cruises to Maui, etc. with his entourage in the Summers. I was just a kid, then.
Love this movie. This was the movie my husband and I saw on our first date.
My favorite movie for sure a low budget movie
The cars.
it's not a true story but it's based on George Lucas's teenage years growing up in Modesto, California
That is so cool !!
And the really funny thing is, Lucas spent most of the year this film is set stuck in bed after he was almost killed in a car accident.
Lucas actually updated the special effects in this movie.
Lucas was paid $150k to direct American Graffiti. His next project was Star Wars and the studio offered him $500k to direct it. He turned it down and said instead he'd do it for $150k but that he also get all the rights to any sequels and all the merchandise in the future, the studio agreed. We know how this finally turned out, $35 billion dollars later this franchise is still going and Lucas is a billionaire.
When this came out in 1973 as kids we thought the 50's were ancient history. Such a good movie that my friends and I went and saw again.
And while it’s not true that the success (all-time #1, before Jaws) of American Graffiti led ABC to greenlight the “Happy Days” sitcom a year or two later…it sure didn’t hurt. 😁
It's fascinating from my point of view to watch the next generation discover these movies. First and foremost; I'm glad you are aware that the world existed before your birth. You would be amazed at how many of your contemporary young folk refuse to acknowledge there was an Earth before their birth. I often get asked why I don't like "new" movies and it's because I grew up on movies like this. I know what makes a movie good. Modern movies are not great....
I'm glad you enjoyed it. There's an entire mass of movies out there from the 1950's, the 1960's and the 1970's that are equally as good if not better than American Graffiti. "AG" also fits into the Genre of "Road Movies" ie: movies that take place primarily in cars. Very much a genre of the late 60's and most of the 1970's.
If you liked this genre, may I also suggest:
- Two Lane Blacktop
- Vanishing Point
- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
- Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974) NOT the Nicolas Cage version from the 1990's.
- Speedtrap
- Stingray!
- Moonrunners
- Duel (Steven Spielbergs' first movie)
- The Gumball Rally
- Cannonball!
- Death Race 2000
- Thunder & Lightning
- Smokey & the Bandit
Awesome reaction! I also just watched this movie earlier in the year and loved it. A similar one is Diner. Also set in the 50s and dealing with kids meeting up after their first semester of college. I thought that was just as awesome as this movie. Dazed and Confused is similar too. All great coming of age stories.
Diner, I've not seen. Thanks for the mention.
@@karlmay1949 awesome! Let me know what you think after you watch!
@@robertmccauley754 will do, thanks
This is the movie that gave George Lucas some street cred among the studio execs. He finished American Graffiti on time and within budget. A lot of these actors were nobodies at the time, but later went on to become big stars. Happy Days was a copy of this movie.
Not a true story! Fiction characters! But the epilogue tells you much about the rest of the 1960s; this takes place in 1962, but the culture is all 1950s. Pre-Beatles, pre-Vietnam War, pre-drug revolution, pre-sexual revolution, etc etc./ "Dazed And Confused" is basically "American Graffiti"...but instead of last day of summer 1962, it's last day of school 1976. The two together tell you A LOT about the social upheaval that went on between those years, it might as well as been eight decades between them. Both great movies/The giant success of "American Graffiti" led to "Star Wars", that was his next movie. And he hardly ever directed after that, and nothing ever as great as this. Amazing cinematography....they shot the ENTIRE DANCE sequence, all the scenes, including the ones in the bathrooms, in a single night! Amazing soundtrack. The greatest of all 1950s-era movies, definitely the most influential. When people ask what my favorite movies are, it's too hard to cite them all, but I routinely list this as one of them.
Also suggest the sequel it’s pretty good thanks
Thjs was Harrison Ford's first role...
The blond girl likes Toad because we see early on that she broke up with her rough boyfriend, and she can see that Toad is a sweetie, and he will be nice to her. P.S.: when I was little, I had a Barbie with that EXACT dress. :)
I must say that Harrison Ford drove the Milan Ian falcon better than he drove that 55 Chevy.
My favorite part is the soundtrack.
Not too awkward in a big car
Lori got in the car with Falfa, because her boyfriend Steve wanted to "see other people", she saw steve through the window talking to the hot waitress, so she decided to get into the car with the baddest guy on the street, and he is an outsider. This is a very female tactic. "You want to see other people? Watch this!" Word will get back to Steve fast, because it's a small town. But she is scared of Falfa so she is trying to be careful. You notice: Falfa has a death's head hanging on the rear-view mirror.
Call the cops?! Don't be a square. You never call the cops - ever. Only finks call the cops.
what is that elderly couple doing walking thru town in the middle of the night?
Safer times back then.
Probably more like, can I get a pint of old harpers, and all the cash 💸 in the till 🤔.
Hadir..☕☕👍🇮🇩
No... not a true story...
There is an American Graffiti 2
It's not as good as this, but it is still worth a view ✌️🙂
HOLY F**K! I'm putting down EVERYTHING to watch this reaction!!!!!! One of my all-time favorites; I actually saw this in the theater.....when I was five! A vivid memory!!! (I had young parents, they took me everywhere, i was a rock & roll kid! :P). Ok, super psyched......man, I can't imagine what it must have been like editing this one!!!
That's one thing I'm not proud of my generation for- drag racing. What fools! All the people that died in stupid wrecks.
Did you watch this movie on fast forward? Twenty-six minutes? 🙄
that cop car thing wasnt stupid. our generation had the balls to fck with corrupt cops. Millennials will never have the memories we have. We attacked the world and won. And we gave you all the gizmos you have. We were real rebels. Sex drugs and rock and roll especially in the early 80s when I grew up. We took chances and experienced life. living it safe is fcking boring..like the new gens are. lol
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