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Fandango (1985)
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Genre | Drama, Comedy |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, AC-3, Dubbed, Subtitled, NTSC |
Contributor | Chuck Bush, Marvin J. McIntyre, Kevin Costner, Frank Marshall, Judd Nelson, Kathleen Kennedy, Brian Cesak, Kevin Reynolds, E.G. Daily, Glenne Headly, Tim Zinnemann, Sam Robards, Suzy Amis See more |
Initial release date | 2005-07-12 |
Language | English |
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Product Description
Fandango (DVD) "There's nothing wrong with going nowhere. It's a privilege of youth."FANDANGO: (fan-dang-go) 1. A lively Spanish dance. 2. The music for this. 3. A foolish act.Academy Award winner Kevin Costner stars as one of five young men about to graduate from college on the summer of 1971, who take one last, wild trip across West Texas before facing their lives as adults--which will include marriage, careers and service in the war in Vietnam--in this heartfelt and adventurous coming-of-age story.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Item model number : WHV39633DVD
- Director : Kevin Reynolds
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, AC-3, Dubbed, Subtitled, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Release date : July 12, 2005
- Actors : Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Chuck Bush, Brian Cesak
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Producers : Frank Marshall, Tim Zinnemann, Kathleen Kennedy
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
- Studio : Studio Distribution Services
- ASIN : B0006J28NC
- Writers : Kevin Reynolds
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #31,769 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,732 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
- #5,314 in Drama DVDs
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There is something captivating about this movie. I loved it the first time I saw it and I am another one glad that it is in DVD now.
The Music is Excellent and ends with my favorite song.
Some of the battling between the characters can be a little loose in spots but it is so entertaining, you don't think much about that. Every one had talent and played their parts convincingly.
I agree with another review, this is some of Kevin Costner's best work and no one else could have done it better.
Even if you don't care about the privileges of youth, those certain and uncertain times or the music, that stunt pilot was incredible. I'd watch it again and again just to see that.
Since they are getting ready to go into the world of adulthood, they decide to go on one last trip to go see their buddy DOM. Kenneth calls off his engagement because he got his draft card as did Gardner.
The adventures ensue. And it is their road to adulthood. It was a great film. It was so underrated. If you have the chance, see this movie. It won't be wasted time. It was beautifully shot in West Texas and so worth the journey. Please enjoy it as much as I did!
A look back at a time when some could see that all the navigation markers had been moved, some more, some less. I, for one, did not pick up on all the clues.
A disillusioned ‘Peter Pan’ improvises a ‘Last Hurrah’ with forced frivolity and pranks, grand stunts and a search for something to cling to.
This is a very funny drama. Set in 1971, it is viewed from a post 1983 perspective with all the clarity of hindsight.
This is a fairly inspired look at the time of life when many of us first recognize the erosion of innocence is at work and the beginning of a search for something, any idea, to fasten the remainder of life upon.
The primary characters represent the ones who hold fast to tradition, the ones reaching for a new path, the ones carried by those who are stronger, and the ones rejecting what comes next…all traveling through the crowds just trying to get through the day - some of whom recognize the travails of our main characters as they pass by.
Among other things is represented a wonderful rendition of the ‘stone soup’ meme in the last act, and a terrific topical soundtrack.
In the end is the suggestion that all paths must be traveled and all destinations reveal some meaning.
So it is with Fandango. A tale about five fraternity friends who are led by an irresponsible party seeker played by Kevin Costner, a will be draft dodger. The formulation for this film is to show a man who is on the fence of where he should go in terms of a life path. One friend is irreponsible, another is an ROTC graduate, while another is in a vocational for the seminary. And the fifth stays asleep the entire time, only to waken once the right decision has been made.
That sounds highly artistic, but it is in fact a psychiatric formula employed by modern behavioral medicine and science. The idea behind Fandango is not to show you, me nor the rest of the audience some moral framework based on the director's personal values, but a kind of societal lesson in responsibility.
That is right, long gone are the days of the artist with a vision and message for the masses. It's all pretty much social psychology by use of film as a psychiatric tool. And so you get a lot of behavioral calibration in a film like Fandango as the fivesome traipse from one irresponsible adventure to the next. Costner's character challenges the conservatism and alleged cowardice of their ROTC hanger on, the seminary student acts as a kind of passive moral guide or support, in the middle is the would be groom he has taken Costner's would be bride to be, all the while the sleeper remains unconscious the entire time dreaming, presumably, about the whole experience.
It's a film, like others, that used to act as a salve for a lot of psychological ills for audiences. If you remember your college days with great joy, then this film will put a kind of mix of both a fond reminder and grim sense of social responsibility into your psyche. It seems like art, and the shot setup, the casting, the costumes, the location and everything else, are in fact psychiatric tools for social psychology.
And that's all films are.
That's not to say that Fandango isn't a "good film", nor that a viewer cannot enjoy it as a simple movie, but for all of its profundity it is in fact formulaic science at work and not a personal value driven film. And that's why it's not as good as a film as people may think it.
Still, it's a fun watch if somewhat a downer, particularly at the end.
Like I say, I used to get a medical high from watching movies, and this one was just another drug pushed by Hollywood film making junkies. I am sorry that all films are like that. I'm sorry that this wasn't created by some screenplay artist combination director who had a great vision about a morality play regarding five friends. I'm sorry it isn't that at all, and that those films went away with the silent era.
Still, it was sort of fun and partially gratifying seeing this film on blue ray after all these years. I'm just sorry the film is as I described for all of the aforementioned reasons.
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