Melody (1971) on Netflix
Daniel Latimer, an artistic loner, does what his school expects until he befriends Ornshaw, the class troublemaker. He falls for Melody Perkins, and the two tell their parents they mean to marry.
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Daniel Latimer is artistic and keeps to himself, doing what school asks of him, until he becomes friends with Ornshaw, the class troublemaker. Daniel then falls in love with Melody Perkins, a shy, mischievous girl, and Ornshaw feels shut out because Daniel would rather be with her. Melody is embarrassed by the attention at first, but she comes to feel the same way. The two tell their parents that they want to be married straight away, not years from now, and the grown-ups try clumsily to change their minds.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Melody (1971)
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- Melody was the feature debut of Tracy Hyde, who was 11 years old when she played Melody Perkins. Writer/director Andrew Birkin recommended her to director Waris Hussein after screening and auditioning more than 100 other girls.
- Wes Anderson acknowledged that his film Moonrise Kingdom was inspired by Melody, and Alan Parker said he had had many overtures over the years to remake it.
- David Puttnam held the rights to seven Bee Gees songs and suggested Alan Parker write a love story about children. Parker took the film's title from the Bee Gees song "Melody Fair" and was inspired by a line in their song "First of May."
- Alan Parker said Melody launched the careers of those involved: he had no intention of a film career before he directed a small second-unit sequence on it that was used, and was probably bitten by the film bug then.
