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Post by persephone on Mar 8, 2017 5:49:44 GMT
Does anybody happen to know what this movie is? Back when I was little our apartment building had this strange pay TV channel called Select TV and there was this one Australian teen filmed they played all the time. It was in the early 80's about a few girls that were friends and the surfer boys they hung out with. If I remember it was your typical teen film, set around Christmas time during Summer Vacation. My memory is really shaky on this but, it stands out in my mind because it was played so often. I do remember that one girl was kind of mean to her sweeter, kinda dorky surfer girl friend. I think the dorky girl gets the hot boy in the end.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 6:13:09 GMT
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Post by aussiefilmcollector on Mar 8, 2017 6:40:59 GMT
Sounds to me like "Psycho Beach Party".
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Post by persephone on Mar 8, 2017 8:18:50 GMT
Thank you so much! It was Puberty Blues! That has been driving me crazy for years. I have no idea why it stuck in my head all this time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 9:53:43 GMT
They made a remake of it in 2012 in case you were interested.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 9, 2017 2:11:37 GMT
The way they do this shit is so f...ing cruel. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 2:51:58 GMT
Doing remakes?
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Post by aussiefilmcollector on Mar 9, 2017 3:15:14 GMT
They made a remake of it in 2012 in case you were interested. But as a TV series, not a movie |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 4:03:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 4:04:38 GMT
The TV series wasn't bad actually. I thought it was better than the original film.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 5:09:17 GMT
I remember reading (possibly on the trivia page for the movie) that the writers of the source material (the novel) thought the movie should have had more sex in it. The argument against that was that the censorship of the day would have given it an X rating and made making a profit almost impossible.
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Post by aussiefilmcollector on Mar 9, 2017 7:59:58 GMT
The sex part of it wouldn't have had much of an effect for an Australian release because our movies of the time were absolutely swimming in nudity, but it would have certainly affected an overseas release to less liberated countries.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 8:19:33 GMT
Oh I see. I didn't grow up there, but here's the trivia page for that movie on IMDB:
For Australian censorship classification reasons, the ages of characters in the movie were increased from the source novel to sixteen, which was the legal age of consent in Australia at the time. Not doing so would have meant characters depicted as having sexual intercourse would be classified as minors, the film could then have been cut or banned by then Chief Censor Janet Strickland's regime at the Australian Censors, as had been the fate of some films, such as Private Lessons (1981) and David Hamilton's Tendres cousines (1980).
In an 18th January 2012 article in 'The Sydney Morning Herald' about the television series Puberty Blues (2012), entitled "Show true Puberty Blues, not whitewash", source co-novelist Kathy Lette said of this original 1981 cinema movie that "the film sanitized the plot by omitting central references to miscarriage and abortion. The movie depicts a culture in which gang rape is incidental, mindless violence is amusing and hard drug use is fatal, but it was unable to address the consequences of the brutal sexual economy in which the girls must exist".
Feminist Germaine Greer described the movie's controversial source novel by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey as a "profoundly moral story".
Perhaps the 1970s, as elsewhere, saw less strict censorship. It appears at least one of the authors and one of the actors wanted a more truthful portrayal of teen sex, so its not the amount that is at issue, but how different types, its nature and its aftermath.
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Post by aussiefilmcollector on Mar 9, 2017 8:38:36 GMT
Sure, depicting sexuality in people below the age of consent wouldn't have been allowed here either. We're not talking at cross purposes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 9:48:34 GMT
I don't think we are either. I was clarifying my own earlier wrong-ish assumption. I thought the Puberty Blues (1981) trivia page spoke of the level of sex, but it was about the type of sex and the issue of dealing with its aftermath as mentioned by the people in the quote instead. Apparently one of the Actresses marched in the streets on the issue, ie the representation of Women in films.
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