I felt like that before. When everyone wants you to move on with life and deep inside you are so hurt you can't speak to anyone. You don't care about anything anymore. As if you died inside.
I totally understand that.feeling. AND aside from all that...and back to this story. I love Natalie and I wish so much her life had not been cut so short. I'm sure she would have been one of the most famous actresses we ever knew and would have given many of those mentioned here a run for their money!
Heart, crushed. Sickening hallow empty feeling. Yet can’t think of anything else. The feeling dominates everything as if it were a loud blaring sound that won’t subside. You can’t turn away or turn it off. You know you need to. Want to. But you’re somehow kept in it like a prisoner. A prisoner to your own mysterious pain.
School was awesome for me & I’m grateful for for that but not for my daughter who went through hidden pain & it was her teacher who picked on her & embarrassed her in class making her hate school. Do not disrespect your teacher but also a teacher should not embarrass a student in class ever.
I feel you.. You cared so much that when you got hurt it made you feel as if nothing in the word seemed to matter anymore.. As if you feel no life inside..
That's what a great director like Elia Kazan could do; and playing opposite Warren Beatty didn't hurt, either. Great part, superb, understated and completely believable acting by Natalie Wood. She was so lovely, it was hard, almost, to stop "looking at her beauty" and appreciate how good she was.
In my opinion this is one of the best films ever made and the best film about first love. Natalie Wood was so perfect for this role, she really was able to capture Deanie in love and in complete heartbreak. This has to be one of those films everyone has to at least watch once in their lifetime.
If you have experienced the heart break of your first innocent love, you will relate to this film. The first love is always the deepest and most pure. After that, you have to gain strength again and love becomes more practical. I could strongly relate to Natalie's vulnerability and pain. This is the first old Hollywood film that left me in tears.
That was me! My first love my first everything, I was 14, he was everything to me, after 10 mo. He walked out of my life, he ruined me, and took me at least five years to get over him, it was not puppy love, it was real, I adored him,this was my movie only instead of Bud and Deanie, it was Bob and jeanne…I still have his love in a little corner of my heart and I’m 79 now, I never stopped loving him….
veedub447 The right actress won that year. Sophia Loren in “Two Women” delivered one of the most powerful performances that anyone ever gave. Compared to her work Natalie Wood is merely okay.
@Oki je Jskdkek I didn't say anything about Sophia's acting. It's grow not grew. If you don't like my comment you don't have to respond. However I am allowed to have my opinion and my opinion is that Natalie was robbed of the award. I don't care what you think of my opinion. Not everybody has to agree with you.
This is likely the most heartbreaking movie I've ever seen. Parents can really destroy your life. Natalie Wood's performance in this, as shown in this scene, is nothing short of extraordinary.
I've always been told parents can't destroy your life....we do it ourselves. I've had to live with that but I know what really happened. I lived it. I was born in '46 and it was truly a different time back then being a young girl. Relate greatly to this poem..has to be my favorite.
@@IloveTS13haha It was only my dad. I have to say I felt like I was taking care of my mother after I got older. She was like an angel to everyone. He would never take that part of her. She was hurt many times but also knew how to forgive. After dad passed she doubted things I reminded her of and said....oh, he didn't do that ...he really cared about you. Cared? I guess that was the best I got and it was her forgiving him. It just doesn't matter anymore. but thank you.
@@StarrNana I know you wrote this two years ago, but the problem does lie in where one comes from and the environment one lived in. And, it is not one's fault. However, we can hopefully put the past in its place. The film, even after seeing it many times, still resonates for me emotionally. And it is interesting how the woman who plays her mother asks her at the end whether the doctor(s) blamed her (the mother) for Deanie's troubles. So, to me, in the end, the mother has become more cautious and witheld at the end, undoubtedly recognizing her culpability in her daughter's suffereing. And I was born in '52, so I think you and I probably had very similar backgrounds. Totally different time and set of values back then for everyone. This movie is remarkable. And Natalie Wood was outstanding.
I watched this movie when I was 13 years old, and cried like a baby while watching it. It left a lasting impact on me I'll never forget. I was young and didn't know anything about love, but this movie made me feel as if I did. I'm now 62 and still remember it vividly. Natalie Wood acted this role to perfection.
nygblue24 Yes, and I watched it! Natalie should have gotten the Oscar, for sure. "Two Women" was a foreign language film....why was Sophia even nominated!?
@@mjp96 I feel the same way it’s my favorite movie of all times, but I have to psych myself up to watch it because it’s so emotional for me!! Natalie is so brilliant and Warren Beatty was good also. that was his first film. I think he did a great job.
Love the scene ..Quoting Wordworth. Poor Deenie Loomis. Natalie has always perfected her roles. Miss You Natalie. My husband DD met Natalie. LEGENDARY SOUL!
When this film was shown in Rangoon, Burma,in the early 1960s we were also studying this poem in our English Literature Class at Rangoon University.Other things included, this film clip once more touches a chord in my old (now 74) heart.
Every time I watch this scene I weep to high heaven. Some un-intelligent and insensitive people ask why is she crying. WELL HERE'S YOUR ANSWER: This poor heartbroken girl is crying while reading this particular poem by Wordsworth because this poem is exactly expressing her heartbreaking situation with Bud. Deanie is infinitely heartbroken because she has just lost the greatest love of her life which was her splendor in the grass; nothing could ever bring back the hour of splendor in the grass for her which is the boy she loves more than life itself. This is one of the most beautiful, powerful, moving, captivating, and lovingly and beautifully sentimental films ever made in my book. Beautiful from start to the bittersweet end.. A beautiful young and fragile teenage girl heartbroken so young beyond repair. My heart infinitely broke for Deanie. I empathized with her so much because I felt her pain and sorrow over losing the greatest love of her life. I truly know how she feels because I have experienced something like this before but I will not go into that but just take my word for it--I almost did something desperate because I was drowning in my heartbreak. But thank God I overcame that. This scene and especially the last scene of this movie makes me sob and weep to high heaven. You can experience a powerful katharsis watching this movie. I always say to myself; if only he waited for her, they would have lived a beautiful and happy life together filled with love. Bud was the greatest love of Deanie's life and even if Bud doesn't admit it or say it; Deanie is the greatest love of his life. The last scene broke my heart the most; seeing Deanie in that beautiful white dress and hat and the pain in her face and especially in her eyes knowing that this is most likely the last time she will ever see Bud in her lifetime just fills my heart with sorrow and heartache. It was so painful especially when Deanie told Bud that she was getting married that next month to the boy she met at the sanitarium. It broke my heart too when Bud said "Are you Deanie?...I'm so happy for you"--but of course you know he doesn't really mean it and you can hear the pain in his voice and feel his heartbreak too as he says that. You can also hear the hurt in Deanie's voice when she tells him the news and especially the painful look in her eyes and feel her heartbreak and heartache once again. I could see the pain in both their eyes and feel both their heartaches and they both looked like they were almost about to cry.Bud and Deanie just pretend that everything's alright that they are happy with how things ended up for the both of them but again they truly are not. The part where she goes inside his house and meets that wife of his and especially holds their baby just makes me so teary eyed too. Even though Deanie's smiling as she is holding Bud and his wife's baby boy; you can clearly see that the smile is not genuine and especially you can infinitely clearly see the pain and heartbreak in her eyes. Just looking at that painful look in her eyes as if she were about to cry--you know she's saying in her mind and especially in her heart "If only he could have just waited for me and loved me infinitely as much as I love him, this could have been our little boy together." I don't know how Deanie handled it --going into that house of Bud and the girl he married instead of her and holding their baby son--If were her I would have just refused and just said my final goodbye--why make the sorrow and heartache even worse??!!!!! Deanie loved Bud so much; she loved him and worshiped him and when that lovely scene when they came home from school when they were still together--she expressed her deep infinite love for him and even fall down on her knees for him and possibly even die for him because she loved him so infinitely deeply that much. I wish he loved her that much too. Deanie loved him infinitely more than he loved her. I know for a fact that when Bud saw Deanie so beautiful in that beautiful white dress after so many years, he wished with all his heart and soul that he could go back to her and marry her. But it was heartbreakingly too late; so many complications--he has a kid with that second rate girl he married already and unfortunately he cannot just leave her. It's practically his own fault that things ended up the way things are for him now and I blame him infinitely for Deanie's heartbreak. It wouldn't be too late for them if only he wasn't such a jerk and just waited for Deanie which is his true love and again the greatest love of his life. Whenever I think of Deanie and Bud's heartbreaking situation; I always think of that beautiful and sentimental song by Ambrosia called "How Much I Feel" and that heartbreaking but beautiful line close to the end of the song which is "How's your life been going on, I've got a wife now and years we've been going strong...but there's just something that I have to say...sometimes when we make love, I still see your face..." That's exactly what their heartbreaking situation is. I know when Bud makes love to that second rate wife of his; he sees Deanie's face instead of hers and wishes to God with all his heart and soul that it was her that he was making love to instead of that second rate girl he settled for. Same goes for Deanie; but unlike Bud my heart goes out to her; I know that when she makes love to her husband; she sees Bud's face instead of his and wishes so infinitely much to God with all her heart and soul too that it is Bud she is making love to instead of the boy she had to settle for as her husband. I know they'll both got through life heartbroken that they didn't marry the greatest and true loves of their lives which are each other. Every time Deanie and Bud face the people that they married instead of each other they will always feel this lonliness, longing, and heartbreak and say "if only..." No matter what, Deanie and Bud will always love each other romantically and could never love the people that they married instead of each other the way they loved each other. No boy or man could ever replace Bud for Deanie and especially no one could ever replace Deanie for Bud. I practically finish the whole box of Kleenex when I watch the very last few minutes which is when Deanie says her final goodbye to Bud and drives off to the horizon with her two best friends. One of her friends asks her if she still loves Bud, Deanie doesn't really answer her but just smiles and recites the beautiful poem of Wordsworth "Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass; glory in the flower, we shall grieve not but rather find strength in what remains left behind." And with her sweet smile you know she truly will always love Bud forever. Love this movie; one of my most favorite movies ever. This is one of the movies that makes you think deeply about how fragile the heart and soul is; especially a young teenage girl's heart. I blame Bud; he was a jerk; he couldn't wait for Deanie because he was a horny jerk and asshole who couldn't control his sexual urges and got stuck with marrying a second rate girl; a cubic zarconia instead of his diamond gal which is Deanie. He drove Deanie to heartbreak; to the point where she almost did something desperate and drove her to insanity which were deep depression and loneliness and heartache she'll take to her grave.. Deanie loved him infinitely more than he loved her that she would have waited forever for him. I cannot emphasize enough how infinitely heartbreaking this movie is. Nothing could ever bring back the hour of splendor in the grass for both of them, especially for Deanie. That poor girl; my heart breaks for her infinitely.
+materialgirl8707 So tell me did you like the movie? Just kidding. I love what you said. I read it all, it's almost a book! I love this movie too. And how I miss Natalie...
+materialgirl8707 I must most respectfully disagree. I believe Deanie was the one who "grew up"... and was probably the sanest of all in that ending scene. It's called: "there's no going back" ....instead, we move on. This is not cynicism, but life experience..... and the realization that codependency is unhealthy. Second rate wife? I think not. Bud also learned, that as the poem says: You can never go home again. Recall how Bud's pregnant wife feels ashamed and uncertain when the beauty of Wood's charecter comes to "visit?".....and then he tenderly kisses his wife, I believe with genuine love, to reassure her that the past, Is......THE PAST. Very bittersweet and among my top favorite films. Between Inge's script, Kazan's direction, the brilliance of the ENTIRE acting ensemble, along with Amram's score (film soundtrack)....it's a masterpiece.
This is what great acting looks like. Natalie Wood was amazing. This scene and the bathtub scene absolutely nail what it's like having a nervous breakdown.
this poem was just too fire, she couldn't handle it. You're not alone Natalie, every time I begin reading Ode to Intimations of Immortality, I'm like "I got this, I'm in a good place right now", and by the time I get to the line "The things which I have seen I now can see no more." I'm throwing out perfect McDonalds-arc tears. This poem will ruin your day, only read it on days off work, or long weekends. Seriously.
The movie is heart breakingly beautiful. I cried in the beginning when Deanie and Bud are alone in the house and he jokes about her being his slave and Deanie just breaks down. I felt different by the end because Deanie sees him just the way he is, an immature boy with nothing special about him.
marvel096 I agree. They both realize their undying love for each other but their reality is now so different. I first watched this movie as a young teen and now I’m close to 50 and this is still one of my all time favorite movies, if not my #1. So bittersweet.
A Tangerine He chased Juanita’s tail in high school though after breaking up with Deanie. How do we know Deanie will be happy with the doctor she is engaged to? He sounds good on paper but maybe she settled like many people do. After all, she said happiness isn’t something she thinks about much, implying she is just existing and going through the motions of life as is expected of adults.
The final scene in this film ALWAYS makes me cry. Deanie finally understands what William Wordsworth's poem really means: "Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.........Deanie knows that she and Bud can never bring back what they once had.......he is now married to another girl and they have a little boy and Deanie is soon going to be married to another Man.....and yet......Deanie STILL loves Bud and she always will. The poem continues: "we will not grieve but find, comfort in what remains behind. Deanie must now move on with her life and find comfort in what she has, rather than pining for what she WANTS...........very sad.
We all must look back at life experiences to find strength from the memories, good or bad experiences, because the present is what we really have and we can't bring back the innocence we leave behind but how experiences make us mature, evolve and grow. It's our reality.
every time i see the movie i get a lump in my throat it reminds me of me and my true love i never loved anyone so much and i lost him too the actors are terrific
How horrible it must have been for her to have to read a poem that's reflecting the pain and hurt she's going thru at that very moment with her ex boyfriend, who is the most popular and most handsome guy in the whole school and everyone knew THEY were dating. Not to mention knowing that the school tramp that stole him is sitting right in front of her in class and eyeballing her AS she's reading it...
A big part of this film is the sexual morality of the times. I've seriously thought about that because most of this film would not exist if Deenie had been "allowed" to have sex with Bud. It's amazing,too. That Molly Ringwald look alike was nothing more than Bud's sex toy. No way was she classified as a girlfriend. She was fine in that role. There was no way Deenie could compete with that.
@Peppermint Snowdrift I think we all would do the same but I think it was more focused on how she felt and not giving the revenge We are smarter than that When ppl hurt u, all u need to do is to grow and succeed and be happy instead of giving ur time and satisfaction to them of u suffering
Deanie's caught off-guard here by Miss Metcalf, and in her emotionally fragile state she tries to pull together some kind of interpretation of the poem. But she doesn't REALLY understand its meaning till the very end of the film when she remembers these words after seeing Bud as a poor farmer with a messy wife and grimy little boy, and thinks poignantly of what might've been, and what they both lost, but that it can't be changed, only remembered with fondness.
@Wednesday's Child I think if she'd married Bud and had been forced to live on the farm, she would've made the best of it. But there's no need to speculate because it didn't turn out that way.
Natalie arrives with her friends all decked out, hopeful I think. His wife, pregnant, cooking with her baby sitting on the farmhouse floor, playing with a chicken, is warm and friendly to Deenie and her friends, but feels embarassed with their living conditions and her appearance. Yet Bud looks at his pregnant wife with love, telling her everything's fine. Bud's where he should be, doing what he always wanted to do in life. Great ending 💖
Natalie played this role so perfectly. I could feel Deanie's pain 💔💔💔 😓 she was so heart broken and yet her synopsis was so sincere and true about the poem.
Her interpretation here is incomplete; when she recites it at the end of the movie, it's meaning is abundantly clear, and there is resolve and acceptance in her voice. The greatest romantic tragedy movie ever made.The direction of Elia Kazan brought out the best from Natalie Wood and Warren Beaty, just a timeless classic.
I can't understand either, why She didn't win the Oscar that year. Natalie Wood was an artist. That could be seen when She was a child actress. This movie was a masterpiece of direction, writing and acting.
I liked the movie so much. It illustrates that loving another person is not enough to have that person at times. There are things which are not under our control that may change our situations completely and leave some dreams or desires we had in the past, no matter how strong they were, as dreams of youth only. Some call it fate, or other names but there are things that we may want, but simply cannot be for reasons beyond our comprehension.
I remember initially seeing this on a TV rerun. I now have this in my collection.This is one of Wood's greatest scenes. I cried like a baby at the end, and I still do. I LOVE her....AND Wordsworth AND Inge AND Kazan. The film is a masterpiece. Years later,when "I".... "grew up"... I realized that Deanie Loomis and Bud Stamper had an unhealthy codependent relationship. WAY TOO bittersweet. And the music of David Amram was so poignantly set to this cinematic work of art. Do I sound jaded? I think not. Perhaps a bit wiser. Nonetheless, am still a hopeless romantic. THIS... among my top 50 favorite films. @ FilmPoems...Thank You!
Thank you for your comment, it somehow made me feel less alone. I have viewed this film over the decades from the viewpoint of a lover, a husband, a father and a grandfather and it has never failed to move me. It is one of those films that makes you desperately want to rewrite the ending. But you can't because Natalie Wood driving away is so beautiful, more than beautiful, ethereal.
***** Wood was a gifted actor, a MOST beautiful woman. Now as I too am no longer a teen, and have had more than MY share of "LIFE EXPERIENCE"... the romantic in me, still feels emotional over this film..... ......HOWEVER... As far as the ending, where she drives away, I see it differently today. It's about a sense of freedom for Deanie Loomis. Afterall..."she" was the CRAZY one. Yes...or I think not. It's Bud Stamper who perhaps still remains somewhat "trapped" at the end.. sad, and disillusioned over not just financial loss, but family loss, as well as the first great love of his life. All this, no thanks to his father, as portrayed by Hingle (another great actor)...I just LOVE Inge! Kazan.... and the entire cast. It IS ART. I have no doubt that Beatty's character tried to honor his overbearing father's wishes, failed, suffered, and turned to "Angelina." I believe he grew to love her (Zohra Lambert's character) and their son. Maybe the message is about just dealing with life...settling. Doesn't mean people are cowards. Perhaps they become more aware of life's realities? The "happily ever after fairy tale stories" are non-existent. In words of Wordsworth: "We will grieve NOT...rather, find strength... in what remains behind..." (there's no such thing as 'going home again') It's about learning, and moving. Forward.
bravaLiz But you see that's exactly the point. The feelings we have when we are young and in love are so overpowering that we can't conceive that mundane considerations like money or social acceptance could possibly interfere. But they do and it's horrible. I've experienced and I'm reasonably certain you have as well. Happily ever after may not exist but Natalie Wood"s determination in that lovely end scene gives us hope even while breaking our hearts. Like you say, that's art. Incidentally, it's a pleasure to exchange with an intelligent person.
ditto! love engaging in the good stuff... unfortunately not time to be on here all that much... but something for you to chew on....... wasn't it GB Shaw who said "Youth is Wasted on the Young?" hahaha be happy and well! AND SO... I'm a true cinafreak...hence I pose this question: can you name the flick where that line was paraphrased..yes it's TRIVIA TIME....where the old curmudgeon says/ semi plagiarizes that line by saying: "AWWW YOUTH is wasted on the wrong people!!!" :-)
This is such a great movie, but I can hardly stand to watch it because how much I despise the character Bud Stamper. He threw away the greatest girl he could ever hope to find. All because he needed to get laid. I would wait a century for a girl like Deanie if I had to.
Renee Knight Unfortunately thats the truth, most men are disgusting like that, but there are still few gems worth our love, I’m sure I’m gonna find my own gem one day
I saw the movie long ago and liked it very much as it is realistic not those with fairy tale endings. Sometimes we fall in love when young but for one reason or another that love breaks down and later when we grow older, we can only remember it. We go on with our lives and in time find someone else. But we should live the present as the past is gone and done. And concentrate of loving our present mate and forget what could have been, but never was.
Oh this movie still gets me so much. I saw it when I was a teen like she was. She really should of won an Oscar for this, it makes me tear up every time.
Bud was so mean the way he dumped Deanie then on top of that she felt like a fool in front of everybody. He waited until she totally lost her mind to decide he wanted her back.
Heartbreaking and powerful performance. I've loved Natalie from the day I first saw her in West Side Story. Cried the day she died. Such a beautiful woman. May she rest in eternal peace.
Hollywood these days will never have talent like Natalie Wood! I love the old movies, another one is This Property is Condemned with Natalie and Robert Redford. btw I still think Robert Wagner pushed her off that boat, so sad.
This film is so incredible and heartbreaking and beautifully acted and written. Natalie breaks my heart with her honesty and beauty. I think the other film this compares to in the characters and writing is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Paul Newman and Liz Taylor. They are both tragic, with bitter honesty about life. Fantastic
Wordsworth's poem is rather long. That this quatrain should be used is devilishly clever as "Splendor in Grass", given the context of the movie and where is it leading, initially led me to think that it meant something quite different; but then, when all is taken in its full totality, was I wrong? She thought that splendor would be a cure for many ailments, but it (or rather the lack of it?) was her curse, until she found strength in "what remains behind". As far as Natalie Wood's life goes, to see her in this movie so vividly act out a scene of desperately swimming to end her life makes me wonder what Christopher Walken thinks about how close it came to real life....not that he, or Robert Wagner for that matter, would know.
Can you belive this is my first time watching Natalie Wood acting? And I have to say I'm gonna watch some of her movies, I like her a lot in this scene! :)
I just finished watching this film and I thoroughly enjoyed. To me this part signifies: the love she shared with bud was her splendor in the grass, but it has now passed forever. And while she looks at the smug girl in front of her, whom had a brief encounter with bud, she is able to precisely decribe what woodworth describes in his poem, as she is going through it at that moment. Well done movie.
It always amuses me to see the teacher looking over her classroom with some exasperation after she asks the question and all the kids try to avoid paying attention to her - and when Natalie is singled out, everyone else is silently relieved that it wasn't them. It's so typical of school.
she's heartbroken because the boy she loves so much cruelly broke up with her for no good reason and like the poem she knows she will never find that happiness and loveliness she felt with him ever again. watch the movie, it is stunning and magnificent, one of the best movies ever made
The late great, William Inge wrote this screenplay, based on a real girl in his small Southern town who suffered a breakdown; there was some thwarted love involved.
Elia Kazan gets so much out of this wonderful cast. making the film timeless Is it Natalie's best performance? You choose.. Beatty is restrained and very good in his first film. Barbara Loden as Ginny and Audry Christie as Mrs Loomis are spot on and of course Bill Inge ( screenwriter ) gives us the sermon Pat Hingle is great as the insufferable Ace Stamper this film does not age at all and notice the final scenes with the row of trees where they both see each other
bravaLiz Then you know at about the start of the filming of Streetcar Named Desire ..it has been generally accepted that she was having a nervous breakdown Leigh was having it due to breakup of her and Olivier I must say her Oscar performance as Blanche Dubois remains today one of the all time best She was Blanche Dubois.. " He takes off his straw hat she gets up from the floor and says to him :"I always relied ...........on the kindness of rangers" Blanche is taken away Stanley then goes to Stella Stella rejects him by saying " Don't you ever touch me again" Stanley then walks fast away from her .. one of the great scenes in Cinema and Alex North's score is crushing and superb..
I never wanted to watch that movie..because I didn,t want to think of my youth gone for ever...other time take its place like the birth of my son ..but you never forget the splendour in the grass ..and it jumps in your mind for no reason no use thinking go away it,s in the past...it,s there for ever
As time passes by. We change. We dont think the same way as before. Adventures are no longer interesting. Just like a distant memory that isn't clear anymore. Lies, manipulation and being torn. Once you hear from their own mouth how they really feel. You realize it's not really. So you just deal with your loss and learn to move on. Forgetting is the hardest part. This movie is old. But still like it's been repeated through so many. Conclusion. Young and dumb. Live and learn. One day you'll have the real thing.
Actually, this film was re-made as a TV movie in 1981 with Melissa Gilbert playing Wilma Dean 'Deanie' Loomis, and although not up to the one with Miss Wood, it was not too bad.
@@sondraschreiber9209 No way! Wrong for the part. Didn't like it. It wasnt the same. Gilbert didn't have the raw emotion, vulnunerabilty or beauty that Wood had.It didn't leave me in tears. Deanie was the prettiest girl in school. Bud the most handsome and popular.
Maybe I'm a hopeless dreamer maybe I've got it wrong but i'm going where the grass is green if you like to come along (Splenor in the grass - Pink Martini)
“Oda a la inmortalidad” Aunque el resplandor que en otro tiempo fue tan brillante hoy esté por siempre oculto a mis miradas. Aunque mis ojos ya no puedan ver ese puro destello Que en mi juventud me deslumbraba Aunque nada pueda hacer volver la hora del esplendor en la yerba, de la gloria en las flores, no debemos afligirnos porqué la belleza subsiste siempre en el recuerdo… En aquella primera simpatía que habiendo sido una vez, habrá de ser por siempre en los consoladores pensamientos que brotaron del humano sufriemiento, y en la fe que mira a través de la muerte. Gracias al corazón humano, por el cual vivimos, gracias a sus ternuras, a sus alegrías y a sus temores, la flor más humilde al florecer, puede inspirarme idéas que, a menudo se muestran demasiado profundas para las lágrimas. 1807 William Wordsworth Poema original completo en inglés:“Intimations of Immortality”
I felt like that before. When everyone wants you to move on with life and deep inside you are so hurt you can't speak to anyone. You don't care about anything anymore. As if you died inside.
I’ve never reached that point, but I did suffer from a terrible depression.
I totally understand that.feeling. AND aside from all that...and back to this story. I love Natalie and I wish so much her life had not been cut so short. I'm sure she would have been one of the most famous actresses we ever knew and would have given many of those mentioned here a run for their money!
Heart, crushed. Sickening hallow empty feeling. Yet can’t think of anything else. The feeling dominates everything as if it were a loud blaring sound that won’t subside. You can’t turn away or turn it off. You know you need to. Want to. But you’re somehow kept in it like a prisoner. A prisoner to your own mysterious pain.
School was awesome for me & I’m grateful for for that but not for my daughter who went through hidden pain & it was her teacher who picked on her & embarrassed her in class making her hate school. Do not disrespect your teacher but also a teacher should not embarrass a student in class ever.
I feel you.. You cared so much that when you got hurt it made you feel as if nothing in the word seemed to matter anymore.. As if you feel no life inside..
My heart breaks for Deenie. Natalie Wood played this role to perfection.
THIS is what earned her an Oscar nomination in the same year she did “West Side Story.”
My favorite actress of all time.
That's what a great director like Elia Kazan could do; and playing opposite Warren Beatty didn't hurt, either. Great part, superb, understated and completely believable acting by Natalie Wood. She was so lovely, it was hard, almost, to stop "looking at her beauty" and appreciate how good she was.
It was easy for Natilie to cry after the horrors of her mother and her gay husband......
@@ramdomgiltter5590 wait what?? please elaborate on the horrors of her mother and gay husband...
In my opinion this is one of the best films ever made and the best film about first love. Natalie Wood was so perfect for this role, she really was able to capture Deanie in love and in complete heartbreak. This has to be one of those films everyone has to at least watch once in their lifetime.
I agree 100%
If you have experienced the heart break of your first innocent love, you will relate to this film. The first love is always the deepest and most pure. After that, you have to gain strength again and love becomes more practical. I could strongly relate to Natalie's vulnerability and pain. This is the first old Hollywood film that left me in tears.
That was me! My first love my first everything, I was 14, he was everything to me, after 10 mo. He walked out of my life, he ruined me, and took me at least five years to get over him, it was not puppy love, it was real, I adored him,this was my movie only instead of Bud and Deanie, it was Bob and jeanne…I still have his love in a little corner of my heart and I’m 79 now, I never stopped loving him….
She should have received an academy award for that performance
I couldn’t agree more. Incredible performance by Natalie !
veedub447 The right actress won that year. Sophia Loren in “Two Women” delivered one of the most powerful performances that anyone ever gave. Compared to her work Natalie Wood is merely okay.
clarequality Delete your account.
Natalie was robbed - she should have won the Academy Award!!!
@Oki je Jskdkek I didn't say anything about Sophia's acting. It's grow not grew. If you don't like my comment you don't have to respond. However I am allowed to have my opinion and my opinion is that Natalie was robbed of the award. I don't care what you think of my opinion. Not everybody has to agree with you.
This is likely the most heartbreaking movie I've ever seen. Parents can really destroy your life.
Natalie Wood's performance in this, as shown in this scene, is nothing short of extraordinary.
I've always been told parents can't destroy your life....we do it ourselves. I've had to live with that but I know what really happened. I lived it. I was born in '46 and it was truly a different time back then being a young girl. Relate greatly to this poem..has to be my favorite.
@@StarrNana wow. Thank you for the perspective of being in that time and having abusive parents. It must have been hard for young girls
@@IloveTS13haha It was only my dad. I have to say I felt like I was taking care of my mother after I got older. She was like an angel to everyone. He would never take that part of her. She was hurt many times but also knew how to forgive. After dad passed she doubted things I reminded her of and said....oh, he didn't do that ...he really cared about you. Cared? I guess that was the best I got and it was her forgiving him. It just doesn't matter anymore. but thank you.
@@StarrNana I know you wrote this two years ago, but the problem does lie in where one comes from and the environment one lived in. And, it is not one's fault. However, we can hopefully put the past in its place. The film, even after seeing it many times, still resonates for me emotionally. And it is interesting how the woman who plays her mother asks her at the end whether the doctor(s) blamed her (the mother) for Deanie's troubles. So, to me, in the end, the mother has become more cautious and witheld at the end, undoubtedly recognizing her culpability in her daughter's suffereing. And I was born in '52, so I think you and I probably had very similar backgrounds. Totally different time and set of values back then for everyone. This movie is remarkable. And Natalie Wood was outstanding.
Siblings can destroy your life to.
I watched this movie when I was 13 years old, and cried like a baby while watching it. It left a lasting impact on me I'll never forget. I was young and didn't know anything about love, but this movie made me feel as if I did. I'm now 62 and still remember it vividly. Natalie Wood acted this role to perfection.
I'm 60 and it stills blows me away
Me too and I ended living the scene visiting the farm yrs later in my own heartbreaking life.
She is the epitome of beauty!! She was so talented. This performance haunted me for years.
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She should've won an Oscar for this. Finest acting I've seen from a female lead.
+nygblue24 I agree. The breakdown in the bath tub was heart-wrenching.
+Lukas Miller No way. ..Wrong, wrong!
It was just on TCM
nygblue24 Yes, and I watched it! Natalie should have gotten the Oscar, for sure. "Two Women" was a foreign language film....why was Sophia even nominated!?
damn straight
Natalie just kills me in that scene, no matter how many times I've seen it. Her best work.
I know it's the finest acting I may ever see, because I can't watch it without crying. The whole movie -
It's haunting. I cry every time. I love this film.
@@mjp96 I feel the same way it’s my favorite movie of all times, but I have to psych myself up to watch it because it’s so emotional for me!! Natalie is so brilliant and Warren Beatty was good also. that was his first film. I think he did a great job.
@@mjp96 also another great one with her was “this property is condemned” she definitely was my favorite actress of all time.🎭❤️💫
Her acting was powerfully heartfelt. I believe she should have won an Oscar.
Love the scene ..Quoting Wordworth. Poor Deenie Loomis. Natalie has always perfected her roles. Miss You Natalie. My husband DD met Natalie. LEGENDARY SOUL!
When this film was shown in Rangoon, Burma,in the early 1960s we were also studying this poem in our English Literature Class at Rangoon University.Other things included, this film clip once more touches a chord in my old (now 74) heart.
Every time I watch this scene I weep to high heaven. Some un-intelligent and insensitive people ask why is she crying. WELL HERE'S YOUR ANSWER: This poor heartbroken girl is crying while reading this particular poem by Wordsworth because this poem is exactly expressing her heartbreaking situation with Bud. Deanie is infinitely heartbroken because she has just lost the greatest love of her life which was her splendor in the grass; nothing could ever bring back the hour of splendor in the grass for her which is the boy she loves more than life itself. This is one of the most beautiful, powerful, moving, captivating, and lovingly and beautifully sentimental films ever made in my book. Beautiful from start to the bittersweet end.. A beautiful young and fragile teenage girl heartbroken so young beyond repair. My heart infinitely broke for Deanie. I empathized with her so much because I felt her pain and sorrow over losing the greatest love of her life. I truly know how she feels because I have experienced something like this before but I will not go into that but just take my word for it--I almost did something desperate because I was drowning in my heartbreak. But thank God I overcame that. This scene and especially the last scene of this movie makes me sob and weep to high heaven. You can experience a powerful katharsis watching this movie. I always say to myself; if only he waited for her, they would have lived a beautiful and happy life together filled with love. Bud was the greatest love of Deanie's life and even if Bud doesn't admit it or say it; Deanie is the greatest love of his life. The last scene broke my heart the most; seeing Deanie in that beautiful white dress and hat and the pain in her face and especially in her eyes knowing that this is most likely the last time she will ever see Bud in her lifetime just fills my heart with sorrow and heartache. It was so painful especially when Deanie told Bud that she was getting married that next month to the boy she met at the sanitarium. It broke my heart too when Bud said "Are you Deanie?...I'm so happy for you"--but of course you know he doesn't really mean it and you can hear the pain in his voice and feel his heartbreak too as he says that. You can also hear the hurt in Deanie's voice when she tells him the news and especially the painful look in her eyes and feel her heartbreak and heartache once again. I could see the pain in both their eyes and feel both their heartaches and they both looked like they were almost about to cry.Bud and Deanie just pretend that everything's alright that they are happy with how things ended up for the both of them but again they truly are not. The part where she goes inside his house and meets that wife of his and especially holds their baby just makes me so teary eyed too. Even though Deanie's smiling as she is holding Bud and his wife's baby boy; you can clearly see that the smile is not genuine and especially you can infinitely clearly see the pain and heartbreak in her eyes. Just looking at that painful look in her eyes as if she were about to cry--you know she's saying in her mind and especially in her heart "If only he could have just waited for me and loved me infinitely as much as I love him, this could have been our little boy together." I don't know how Deanie handled it --going into that house of Bud and the girl he married instead of her and holding their baby son--If were her I would have just refused and just said my final goodbye--why make the sorrow and heartache even worse??!!!!! Deanie loved Bud so much; she loved him and worshiped him and when that lovely scene when they came home from school when they were still together--she expressed her deep infinite love for him and even fall down on her knees for him and possibly even die for him because she loved him so infinitely deeply that much. I wish he loved her that much too. Deanie loved him infinitely more than he loved her. I know for a fact that when Bud saw Deanie so beautiful in that beautiful white dress after so many years, he wished with all his heart and soul that he could go back to her and marry her. But it was heartbreakingly too late; so many complications--he has a kid with that second rate girl he married already and unfortunately he cannot just leave her. It's practically his own fault that things ended up the way things are for him now and I blame him infinitely for Deanie's heartbreak. It wouldn't be too late for them if only he wasn't such a jerk and just waited for Deanie which is his true love and again the greatest love of his life. Whenever I think of Deanie and Bud's heartbreaking situation; I always think of that beautiful and sentimental song by Ambrosia called "How Much I Feel" and that heartbreaking but beautiful line close to the end of the song which is "How's your life been going on, I've got a wife now and years we've been going strong...but there's just something that I have to say...sometimes when we make love, I still see your face..." That's exactly what their heartbreaking situation is. I know when Bud makes love to that second rate wife of his; he sees Deanie's face instead of hers and wishes to God with all his heart and soul that it was her that he was making love to instead of that second rate girl he settled for. Same goes for Deanie; but unlike Bud my heart goes out to her; I know that when she makes love to her husband; she sees Bud's face instead of his and wishes so infinitely much to God with all her heart and soul too that it is Bud she is making love to instead of the boy she had to settle for as her husband. I know they'll both got through life heartbroken that they didn't marry the greatest and true loves of their lives which are each other. Every time Deanie and Bud face the people that they married instead of each other they will always feel this lonliness, longing, and heartbreak and say "if only..." No matter what, Deanie and Bud will always love each other romantically and could never love the people that they married instead of each other the way they loved each other. No boy or man could ever replace Bud for Deanie and especially no one could ever replace Deanie for Bud. I practically finish the whole box of Kleenex when I watch the very last few minutes which is when Deanie says her final goodbye to Bud and drives off to the horizon with her two best friends. One of her friends asks her if she still loves Bud, Deanie doesn't really answer her but just smiles and recites the beautiful poem of Wordsworth "Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass; glory in the flower, we shall grieve not but rather find strength in what remains left behind." And with her sweet smile you know she truly will always love Bud forever. Love this movie; one of my most favorite movies ever. This is one of the movies that makes you think deeply about how fragile the heart and soul is; especially a young teenage girl's heart. I blame Bud; he was a jerk; he couldn't wait for Deanie because he was a horny jerk and asshole who couldn't control his sexual urges and got stuck with marrying a second rate girl; a cubic zarconia instead of his diamond gal which is Deanie. He drove Deanie to heartbreak; to the point where she almost did something desperate and drove her to insanity which were deep depression and loneliness and heartache she'll take to her grave.. Deanie loved him infinitely more than he loved her that she would have waited forever for him. I cannot emphasize enough how infinitely heartbreaking this movie is. Nothing could ever bring back the hour of splendor in the grass for both of them, especially for Deanie. That poor girl; my heart breaks for her infinitely.
+materialgirl8707 So tell me did you like the movie? Just kidding. I love what you said. I read it all, it's almost a book! I love this movie too. And how I miss Natalie...
+materialgirl8707 The thing about is: William Inge, the author, said he took it from a real life story when he was growing up in Kansas.
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+materialgirl8707 I must most respectfully disagree. I believe Deanie was the one who "grew up"... and was probably the sanest of all in that ending scene. It's called: "there's no going back" ....instead, we move on. This is not cynicism, but life experience..... and the realization that codependency is unhealthy.
Second rate wife? I think not. Bud also learned, that as the poem says: You can never go home again. Recall how Bud's pregnant wife feels ashamed and uncertain when the beauty of Wood's charecter comes to "visit?".....and then he tenderly kisses his wife, I believe with genuine love, to reassure her that the past, Is......THE PAST.
Very bittersweet and among my top favorite films. Between Inge's script, Kazan's direction, the brilliance of the ENTIRE acting ensemble, along with Amram's score (film soundtrack)....it's a masterpiece.
+John T. Smith the key words here: When he was "growing up."
This is what great acting looks like. Natalie Wood was amazing. This scene and the bathtub scene absolutely nail what it's like having a nervous breakdown.
this poem was just too fire, she couldn't handle it. You're not alone Natalie, every time I begin reading Ode to Intimations of Immortality, I'm like "I got this, I'm in a good place right now", and by the time I get to the line "The things which I have seen I now can see no more." I'm throwing out perfect McDonalds-arc tears. This poem will ruin your day, only read it on days off work, or long weekends. Seriously.
I had a day off today....slobbering everywhere
You are not alone
This poem is the true picture of youth and the bittersweet memories that have been and are forever gone.
The movie is heart breakingly beautiful. I cried in the beginning when Deanie and Bud are alone in the house and he jokes about her being his slave and Deanie just breaks down. I felt different by the end because Deanie sees him just the way he is, an immature boy with nothing special about him.
He should have graduated college then went back to Deanie but nawl....chasing tail got him 2 kids, a dull wife and a farm to manage alone.
Not at all at the end she realizes she still loves him but there’s nothing she can do about it
marvel096 I agree. They both realize their undying love for each other but their reality is now so different. I first watched this movie as a young teen and now I’m close to 50 and this is still one of my all time favorite movies, if not my #1. So bittersweet.
A Tangerine He chased Juanita’s tail in high school though after breaking up with Deanie. How do we know Deanie will be happy with the doctor she is engaged to? He sounds good on paper but maybe she settled like many people do. After all, she said happiness isn’t something she thinks about much, implying she is just existing and going through the motions of life as is expected of adults.
@@marvel096 No. At the end she realised how happy she is that she did not stay with him and became miserable like them on a farm.
The final scene in this film ALWAYS makes me cry. Deanie finally understands what William Wordsworth's poem really means: "Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.........Deanie knows that she and Bud can never bring back what they once had.......he is now married to another girl and they have a little boy and Deanie is soon going to be married to another Man.....and yet......Deanie STILL loves Bud and she always will. The poem continues: "we will not grieve but find, comfort in what remains behind. Deanie must now move on with her life and find comfort in what she has, rather than pining for what she WANTS...........very sad.
heartbroken,,but that s life... :(
Frances JAMES Should have had sex with Bud. The only reason Bud broke up with her was because she would not have sex with her.
She just couldn't ,,the way how she brought up and stereotypes stopped her so that was heartbroken for her..:(
Frances JAMES
We all must look back at life experiences to find strength from the memories, good or bad experiences, because the present is what we really have and we can't bring back the innocence we leave behind but how experiences make us mature, evolve and grow. It's our reality.
It represents the lost of the innocence and a heartbreak that could never be repaired.
Does anyone else think the girl sitting in front of her looks like Molly Ringwald
joe kemp yes same !!
Just like her.
At least Bud didn't marry that trampy Molly Ringwald girl had he gotten her in trouble. That would've ruined the film.
joe kemp Yes
Two teen icons from different era's
A WONDERFUL MOVIE MOMENT !! AND NATALIE DESERVES HER OSCAR NOMINATION !!
every time i see the movie i get a lump in my throat it reminds me of me and my true love i never loved anyone so much and i lost him too the actors are terrific
Beauty+ talent= Natalie Wood Oscar worthy performance here
How did she not win. This and the bathtub scene. F Warren Beatty btw
Now this is a "Classic" Natalie did an amazing job bringing Deanie to life in this timeless movie..
How horrible it must have been for her to have to read a poem that's reflecting the pain and hurt she's going thru at that very moment with her ex boyfriend, who is the most popular and most handsome guy in the whole school and everyone knew THEY were dating. Not to mention knowing that the school tramp that stole him is sitting right in front of her in class and eyeballing her AS she's reading it...
A big part of this film is the sexual morality of the times. I've seriously thought about that because most of this film would not exist if Deenie had been "allowed" to have sex with Bud. It's amazing,too. That Molly Ringwald look alike was nothing more than Bud's sex toy. No way was she classified as a girlfriend. She was fine in that role. There was no way Deenie could compete with that.
@Peppermint Snowdrift
I think we all would do the same but I think it was more focused on how she felt and not giving the revenge
We are smarter than that
When ppl hurt u, all u need to do is to grow and succeed and be happy instead of giving ur time and satisfaction to them of u suffering
@Loriane that's just fucked up
@Loriane going crazy about some guy just bc he is so hot
Deanie's caught off-guard here by Miss Metcalf, and in her emotionally fragile state she tries to pull together some kind of interpretation of the poem. But she doesn't REALLY understand its meaning till the very end of the film when she remembers these words after seeing Bud as a poor farmer with a messy wife and grimy little boy, and thinks poignantly of what might've been, and what they both lost, but that it can't be changed, only remembered with fondness.
so sad ...................they still loved each other ....
@@MsBonnieBlue Yes, it is very sad
bonnie benini it is possible to love more than one suitor.
@Wednesday's Child I think if she'd married Bud and had been forced to live on the farm, she would've made the best of it. But there's no need to speculate because it didn't turn out that way.
Natalie arrives with her friends all decked out, hopeful I think. His wife, pregnant, cooking with her baby sitting on the farmhouse floor, playing with a chicken, is warm and friendly to Deenie and her friends, but feels embarassed with their living conditions and her appearance. Yet Bud looks at his pregnant wife with love, telling her everything's fine. Bud's where he should be, doing what he always wanted to do in life. Great ending 💖
What a brilliant actress she was!
how did she not win an Oscar for this incredible performance?
- Stand please.
That's when Natalie Wood gets my vote for the best actress of her generation.
One of my 'ol time favorites I can watch over and over, still tear up at the same spots....Bravo Nat!
My heart shattered in this scene
The young actresses now wouldn't hold a candle to Natalie Wood :)
+Fabian Patrizio have you seen àdele exarchopoulos in blue is the warmest colour?
Not in talent or beauty. I don't think there's 1 today who can even come close.
Better if they don't dare to do another version someday because it would be catastrophic
the poem has such a perfect place in the storyline, not overly instituted and not thrown in. love her reading of it at the end more fondly
This is a story about life. Being young and in love. Ultimately, heartbreak and learning to live without that innocent love. A movie for the ages.
This movie reminds me of my first LOVE that I lost.This makes me sad OFTEN.
Bessie Pevey same
Happens with first loves
Natalie played this role so perfectly. I could feel Deanie's pain 💔💔💔 😓 she was so heart broken and yet her synopsis was so sincere and true about the poem.
What an absolute dream boat. Her acting is so good here, you just want to hug her. She's gorgeous through and through.
She is soo pretty.....so classy....!!
This generation needs an actress like Natalie
One of my favourite moments in movie history 🔥
My favorite movie of all times, thanks for posting
Her interpretation here is incomplete; when she recites it at the end of the movie, it's meaning is abundantly clear, and there is resolve and acceptance in her voice. The greatest romantic tragedy movie ever made.The direction of Elia Kazan brought out the best from Natalie Wood and Warren Beaty, just a timeless classic.
I can't understand either, why She didn't win the Oscar that year. Natalie Wood was an artist. That could be seen when She was a child actress. This movie was a masterpiece of direction, writing and acting.
Whenever I need a really good, deep cry, I watch this movie. Gets me every time.
Me too I cannot watch it without crying. Hope it never changes.
Natalie was super gorgeous :)
I love this movie.
I liked the movie so much. It illustrates that loving another person is not enough to have that person at times. There are things which are not under our control that may change our situations completely and leave some dreams or desires we had in the past, no matter how strong they were, as dreams of youth only. Some call it fate, or other names but there are things that we may want, but simply cannot be for reasons beyond our comprehension.
I remember initially seeing this on a TV rerun. I now have this in my collection.This is one of Wood's greatest scenes. I cried like a baby at the end, and I still do.
I LOVE her....AND Wordsworth AND Inge AND Kazan. The film is a masterpiece.
Years later,when "I".... "grew up"... I realized that Deanie Loomis and Bud Stamper had an unhealthy codependent relationship. WAY TOO bittersweet. And the music of David Amram was so poignantly set to this cinematic work of art.
Do I sound jaded? I think not. Perhaps a bit wiser. Nonetheless, am still a hopeless romantic. THIS... among my top 50 favorite films. @ FilmPoems...Thank You!
Thank you for your comment, it somehow made me feel less alone. I have viewed this film over the decades from the viewpoint of a lover, a husband, a father and a grandfather and it has never failed to move me. It is one of those films that makes you desperately want to rewrite the ending. But you can't because Natalie Wood driving away is so beautiful, more than beautiful, ethereal.
***** Wood was a gifted actor, a MOST beautiful woman. Now as I too am no longer a teen, and have had more than MY share of "LIFE EXPERIENCE"... the romantic in me, still feels emotional over this film.....
......HOWEVER...
As far as the ending, where she drives away, I see it differently today. It's about a sense of freedom for Deanie Loomis. Afterall..."she" was the CRAZY one. Yes...or I think not.
It's Bud Stamper who perhaps still remains somewhat "trapped" at the end.. sad, and disillusioned over not just financial loss, but family loss, as well as the first great love of his life. All this, no thanks to his father, as portrayed by Hingle (another great actor)...I just LOVE Inge! Kazan.... and the entire cast. It IS ART.
I have no doubt that Beatty's character tried to honor his overbearing father's wishes, failed, suffered, and turned to "Angelina." I believe he grew to love her (Zohra Lambert's character) and their son. Maybe the message is about just dealing with life...settling. Doesn't mean people are cowards. Perhaps they become more aware of life's realities?
The "happily ever after fairy tale stories" are non-existent. In words of Wordsworth: "We will grieve NOT...rather, find strength... in what remains behind..." (there's no such thing as 'going home again') It's about learning, and moving.
Forward.
bravaLiz But you see that's exactly the point. The feelings we have when we are young and in love are so overpowering that we can't conceive that mundane considerations like money or social acceptance could possibly interfere. But they do and it's horrible. I've experienced and I'm reasonably certain you have as well. Happily ever after may not exist but Natalie Wood"s determination in that lovely end scene gives us hope even while breaking our hearts. Like you say, that's art. Incidentally, it's a pleasure to exchange with an intelligent person.
ditto! love engaging in the good stuff... unfortunately not time to be on here all that much... but something for you to chew on....... wasn't it GB Shaw who said "Youth is Wasted on the Young?" hahaha be happy and well! AND SO... I'm a true cinafreak...hence I pose this question: can you name the flick where that line was paraphrased..yes it's TRIVIA TIME....where the old curmudgeon says/ semi plagiarizes that line by saying: "AWWW YOUTH is wasted on the wrong people!!!" :-)
***** don't know if you saw my comment to your last comment... in any case. G+ does SO (blankety blank)
If you watch this entire movie it's hard to imagine how she did not win that year. Performance of a lifetime.
I remember this part and thought--what a great actress. She had so much more to do. God bless her.
Chef d'oeuvre !!! Wood était une immense actrice, magnifique et très touchante.
This is such a great movie, but I can hardly stand to watch it because how much
I despise the character Bud Stamper.
He threw away the greatest girl he could ever hope to find.
All because he needed to get laid.
I would wait a century for a girl like Deanie if I had to.
Bud's father gave him an out - he actually says if Deanie were pregnant Bud would have to marry her. He copped out.
Draven you have to lay off the makeup if you want someone like Deenie.
@Wednesday's Child Sorry you all. Bud was a mess because of his father and the depression was coming. Bud had his own demons.!!
Draven God bless men like you, you’re amazing
Renee Knight Unfortunately thats the truth, most men are disgusting like that, but there are still few gems worth our love, I’m sure I’m gonna find my own gem one day
I saw the movie long ago and liked it very much as it is realistic not those with fairy tale endings. Sometimes we fall in love when young but for one reason or another that love breaks down and later when we grow older, we can only remember it. We go on with our lives and in time find someone else. But we should live the present as the past is gone and done. And concentrate of loving our present mate and forget what could have been, but never was.
Such a powerful scene, one of my favorites.
Beautiful voice Natalie has. Physically beautiful too.
Most beautiful actress ever lived I still cry the way she died it should have never happened she should still be with us I love her Sally
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i watch ths movie when i was 15 , and i re-watch it once again.. and again.. and i♡it :)
Oh this movie still gets me so much. I saw it when I was a teen like she was. She really should of won an Oscar for this, it makes me tear up every time.
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Bud was so mean the way he dumped Deanie then on top of that she felt like a fool in front of everybody. He waited until she totally lost her mind to decide he wanted her back.
Heartbreaking and powerful performance. I've loved Natalie from the day I first saw her in West Side Story. Cried the day she died. Such a beautiful woman. May she rest in eternal peace.
kazan said when the role was right NO ONE was better than NATALIE WOOD.
Hollywood these days will never have talent like Natalie Wood! I love the old movies, another one is This Property is Condemned with Natalie and Robert Redford. btw I still think Robert Wagner pushed her off that boat, so sad.
This film is so incredible and heartbreaking and beautifully acted and written. Natalie breaks my heart with her honesty and beauty. I think the other film this compares to in the characters and writing is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Paul Newman and Liz Taylor. They are both tragic, with bitter honesty about life. Fantastic
This has been my favorite for years
got teary eye'd here, only seen this movie 10 times!!
Wordsworth's poem is rather long. That this quatrain should be used is devilishly clever as "Splendor in Grass", given the context of the movie and where is it leading, initially led me to think that it meant something quite different; but then, when all is taken in its full totality, was I wrong? She thought that splendor would be a cure for many ailments, but it (or rather the lack of it?) was her curse, until she found strength in "what remains behind".
As far as Natalie Wood's life goes, to see her in this movie so vividly act out a scene of desperately swimming to end her life makes me wonder what Christopher Walken thinks about how close it came to real life....not that he, or Robert Wagner for that matter, would know.
Elia Kazan and Natalie Wood!!!
Can you belive this is my first time watching Natalie Wood acting? And I have to say I'm gonna watch some of her movies, I like her a lot in this scene! :)
I just finished watching this film and I thoroughly enjoyed. To me this part signifies: the love she shared with bud was her splendor in the grass, but it has now passed forever. And while she looks at the smug girl in front of her, whom had a brief encounter with bud, she is able to precisely decribe what woodworth describes in his poem, as she is going through it at that moment. Well done movie.
It always amuses me to see the teacher looking over her classroom with some exasperation after she asks the question and all the kids try to avoid paying attention to her - and when Natalie is singled out, everyone else is silently relieved that it wasn't them. It's so typical of school.
I watched this pregnant sad and alone. Film still touches my heart.
I love poetry and also this performance was incredible.
This movie still blows me away . first see this in 1980 and at the age of 10 i became infatuated by Natalie's talent and beauty ,
she's heartbroken because the boy she loves so much cruelly broke up with her for no good reason and like the poem she knows she will never find that happiness and loveliness she felt with him ever again. watch the movie, it is stunning and magnificent, one of the best movies ever made
Perfection ...
Natalie was a phenomenal actress. 👍❤️
She sure was. One of a kind.
This scene’s so moving
She should have won the Oscar.
Elia Kazan's best work.
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The late great, William Inge wrote this screenplay, based on a real girl in his small Southern town who suffered a breakdown; there was some thwarted love involved.
Elia Kazan gets so much out of this wonderful cast. making the film timeless
Is it Natalie's best performance? You choose.. Beatty is restrained and very good in his first film. Barbara Loden as Ginny and Audry Christie as Mrs Loomis are spot on and of course Bill Inge ( screenwriter ) gives us the sermon
Pat Hingle is great as the insufferable Ace Stamper this film does not age at all and notice the final scenes with the row of trees where they both see each other
This film is a classic. A stellar ensemble cast, script, director... even the score by David Amram adds to the bittersweet message behind this.
+bravaLiz Listen ,your a lovely looking woman too.
Great movie!
bravaLiz Then you know at about the start of the filming of Streetcar Named Desire ..it has been generally accepted that she was having a nervous breakdown Leigh was having it due to breakup of her and Olivier I must say her Oscar performance as Blanche Dubois remains today one of the all time best She was Blanche Dubois.. " He takes off his straw hat she gets up from the floor and says to him :"I always relied ...........on the kindness of rangers" Blanche is taken away Stanley then goes to Stella Stella rejects him by saying " Don't you ever touch me again" Stanley then walks fast away from her .. one of the great scenes in Cinema and Alex North's score is crushing and superb..
Judy Blume's "Deenie" was named for this character.
Snuggles McSquishbottom Currently reading this book 😊 the spelling is a little different from the actual movie.
"When we grow up...we must forget the ideals of youth...* There is a major truth to those words. Innocence lost in any manner is devastating.
I will always love the stunning, radiant Natalie Wood.
Good work, Nat.. You did great !
I never wanted to watch that movie..because I didn,t want to think of my youth gone for ever...other time take its place like the birth of my son ..but you never forget the splendour in the grass ..and it jumps in your mind for no reason no use thinking go away it,s in the past...it,s there for ever
Hello Francine, How are you doing?
That teacher (Martine Bartlett) played Sybil's mother.
I'd say it is my favorite movie of all time. Warren Beatty and Natalie would were perfectly cast. I can cry just thinking about it.
As time passes by. We change. We dont think the same way as before. Adventures are no longer interesting. Just like a distant memory that isn't clear anymore. Lies, manipulation and being torn. Once you hear from their own mouth how they really feel. You realize it's not really. So you just deal with your loss and learn to move on. Forgetting is the hardest part. This movie is old. But still like it's been repeated through so many. Conclusion. Young and dumb. Live and learn. One day you'll have the real thing.
Madame Poovie......I agree with you. REAL Love never dies....your story, like Deanie's story, is very sad.........
A timeless classic..
Natalie Wood is amazing
Natalie Wood was such an incredible actress.
Beauty beside, so REAL!!
An awesome band, named 'Miischa,' used the quote where Deanie discusses the poem and made it even more powerful.
Good movie, good band.
Love this movie...
Onde assisto esse filme completo e legendado/dublado???
Actually, this film was re-made as a TV movie in 1981 with Melissa Gilbert playing Wilma Dean 'Deanie' Loomis, and although not up to the one with Miss Wood, it was not too bad.
She is no natalie wood yuck
@@sondraschreiber9209 No way! Wrong for the part. Didn't like it. It wasnt the same. Gilbert didn't have the raw emotion, vulnunerabilty or beauty that Wood had.It didn't leave me in tears. Deanie was the prettiest girl in school. Bud the most handsome and popular.
Maybe I'm a hopeless dreamer maybe I've got it wrong but i'm going where the grass is green if you like to come along
(Splenor in the grass - Pink Martini)
“Oda a la inmortalidad”
Aunque el resplandor que
en otro tiempo fue tan brillante
hoy esté por siempre oculto a mis miradas.
Aunque mis ojos ya no
puedan ver ese puro destello
Que en mi juventud me deslumbraba
Aunque nada pueda hacer
volver la hora del esplendor en la yerba,
de la gloria en las flores,
no debemos afligirnos
porqué la belleza subsiste siempre en el recuerdo…
En aquella primera
simpatía que habiendo
sido una vez,
habrá de ser por siempre
en los consoladores pensamientos
que brotaron del humano sufriemiento,
y en la fe que mira a través de la
muerte.
Gracias al corazón humano,
por el cual vivimos,
gracias a sus ternuras, a sus
alegrías y a sus temores, la flor más humilde al florecer,
puede inspirarme idéas que, a menudo
se muestran demasiado profundas
para las lágrimas.
1807 William Wordsworth
Poema original completo en inglés:“Intimations of Immortality”
Natalie Wood is a extraordinary actress