Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", New/#66, 1966
This is another movie that was added to the anniversary list even though it was around well before the original list.
This movie takes place all in one night, one very late, very drunken night. It's about two couples, one old(er) and one young. Both the men are professors at the same college and they just meet at a faculty & spouse get together. The young couple comes over to the old couple's house, and even before they arrive, we get to witness the old couple screaming at each other and the audience learns they're in this crazy, bitter, hate-filled, but also somehow loving marriage. At the beginning, the young couple seems like the perfect happy little couple, and then you learn little by little that they have issues too. The best part was when the young women went on this little rant about how she drinks very carefully not to get drunk, and then, naturally, three minutes later she gets very drunk and stays pretty plaster for the rest of the movie. The entire movie is just the couples chatting, drinking, and sharing deep, dark secrets with people they've just met.
One thing I found interesting is that I watched the whole movie without recognizing what actor was the young husband. He's name's George Segal, and I knew him from when he played Jack Gallo on Just Shoot Me. This is not important information or anything, but the fact that after watching this movie, the most interesting thing about it is that I didn't recognize that actor pretty much tells you this was not a good movie. So, I would suggest not watching it.
The last thing is that the title doesn't have anything to do with Virginia Woolf. She's not a character in the movie at all. It comes from a joke at the faculty party, so the movie audience doesn't even really know what the joke is, but it singing "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf" to the tune of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush". And the movie audience gets to hear the couples talk about what a riot that was at the party. So, that's been stuck in my head for a while...

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