[Duck]

The Big Chill (Pics)

I love this movie and it represents the 80's well. Is it completely "trad", of course not, but it does have some preppy elements to it. Some of the characters dress well, the soundtrack is phenomenal, the house in Beaufort SC is amazing. Thoughts? Memories?

I would love to find some more pictures.

 

[Cruiser]

It had a great soundtrack but I thought the movie itself was only average. I lived in Beaufort from 1970 to 1972 when I was in the service, but haven't been back since then.

Cruiser

 

[Prepdad]

We have the soundtrack - it was a great one. Memories of the movie are fading. I've been past the house several times when in Beaufort - wife is from nearby Charleston.

 

[Georgia]

It had a great soundtrack...

A GREAT soundtrack.

 

[oldschoolprep]

The Leaders and Best!

 

[Helvetia]

One of my favorite movies. I remember being disappointed it didn't win the Academy Award that year ... I was 15. I love the soundtracks from this movie, it got me hooked on the MoTown sound.

If I remember correctly - Kevin Costner was the dead friend - he ended up on the cutting room floor.

 

[Literide]

Bunch of white Ivy Leaguers, approx class of '70 getting together 10 years later. Lots of late 70's fashion hangovers and haircuts. This bunch being heavily in to 60s motown is about as plausible as the "Tiny Dancer" bus scene in Almost Famous.

 

[Cruiser]

Bunch of white Ivy Leaguers, approx class of '70 getting together 10 years later. Lots of late 70's fashion hangovers and haircuts. This bunch being heavily in to 60s motown is about as plausible as the "Tiny Dancer" bus scene in Almost Famous.

My college class would have been '71 if I hadn't dropped out to join the military in '68 and it was that 60's Motown that connected with me, along with The Stones :icon_smile:. I don't know how old you are but the music in that movie was what just about everybody was in to in the mid to late 60's. Remember they would have been in high school from about '62 to '66 and then college to '70. That's what we listened to back then.

And they weren't Ivy Leaguers. They were University of Michigan grads.

Cruiser

 

[Sartre]

I loved the movie, saw it a few times, but not recently. Kasdan made a handful of terrific films in the '80s. Accidental Tourist remains one of my all time favorites -- not a wrong note in that entire movie.

tjs

 

[jamgood]

Hate to piddle in y'alls' ale, but the sountrack was a compromise because they could not acquire/afford rights to some of the desired chunes. Beatles, etc. Big mistake on the part of the copyright owners as a lot of the soundtrack chunes regained popularity and were subsequently used in commercials.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/trivia

I never understood that CCR "Bad Moon Rising" lyric of 'There's a bathroom on the right'.

(Which version of I Heard It Through The Grape Vine was released first?)

 

[Cruiser]

(Which version of I Heard It Through The Grape Vine was released first?)

Gladys Knight. At least that was the first version to make the charts. It was my freshman year of college, 1967. Marvin Gaye had a release a short time later that also charted.

Cruiser

 

[Duck]

Can you imagine if a few of us got together for a long weekend at that house? What a blast! The wife would be pleased, she loves each and every one of you. So Glenn Close.

 

[Literide]

My college class would have been '71 if I hadn't dropped out to join the military in '68 and it was that 60's Motown that connected with me, along with The Stones :icon_smile:. I don't know how old you are but the music in that movie was what just about everybody was in to in the mid to late 60's. Remember they would have been in high school from about '62 to '66 and then college to '70. That's what we listened to back then.

And they weren't Ivy Leaguers. They were University of Michigan grads.

Cruiser

Some Stones, Led Zep, even 3 Dog Night or Bad Company would have been more convincing. Hollywood tripe. Then, like the 80s and now, there is whats on the radio and there is what is cool.

 

[jackmccullough]

I enjoyed the movie and the sound track is one of the few movie sound track albums worth owning, with one glaring exception. That godawful Jeremiah the bullfrog song is not only unspeakably bad in its own right, but not consistent with the rest of the selections.

Oh, and as for the Motown music--when I went to college in Michigan (MSU) in the early 1970's I found that Motown was definitely more popular among my fellow white students from Michigan than I had found it in my age cohort in the NYC area.

 

[Cruiser]

Some Stones, Led Zep, even 3 Dog Night or Bad Company would have been more convincing. Hollywood tripe. Then, like the 80s and now, there is whats on the radio and there is what is cool.

You didn't say what age you are but I get the feeling that you are not in the age group as portrayed in the movie. As someone who is the same age as the characters and lived the time in question, I thought the music was perfect.

Keep in mind that most of the music in that soundtrack was what we were listening to before there was a Led Zeppelin or Bad Company. Zep didn't release it's first album until 1969 and Bad Company didn't even exist until 1973. Motown literally fueled the music scene in the mid-60s.

Again, I'm speaking purely from my own personal experiences of having come of age at that time. As much as I love the Stones and Led Zep, when I hear Smokey Robinson sing "Tracks of my Tears" or Otis Redding sing "Dock of the Bay", I do more than just enjoy the music; I literally go back in time in my memories. I suspect that is what happened with a lot of folks of that generation as they listened to the soundtrack of that movie.

The music was almost perfect for the movie.

Cruiser

 

[xcubbies]

Bunch of white Ivy Leaguers, approx class of '70 getting together 10 years later. Lots of late 70's fashion hangovers and haircuts. This bunch being heavily in to 60s motown is about as plausible as the "Tiny Dancer" bus scene in Almost Famous.

Literide, I've got to agree completely with Cruiser. Living in a mostly White middle-class community just ouside of St. Louis, Motown was the music we listened to at parties, danced to-Four Tops, Temptations, Smokey Robinson. This was especially the case for the types this Forum tends to attract, ie. khakis, madras shirts, Weejuns. True, the kids with longer hair tended to rock, but even then, the radio stations tended to play both kinds of music.

 

[Ron_A]

^ Agree with the others, the soundtrack for this movie seems perfect for people who came of age during this era (mid-to-late 60s). Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, etc., appealed more to the subsequent, early-to-mid 1970s generation (see the soundtrack to the Richard Linklater movie Dazed & Confused for a decent representation of that era).

 

[djl]

Some Stones, Led Zep, even 3 Dog Night or Bad Company would have been more convincing. Hollywood tripe. Then, like the 80s and now, there is whats on the radio and there is what is cool.

Not sure where you're from, but you obviously didn't spend a lot of time with this particular demographic in South Carolina during the era.

 

[gar1013]

Not sure where you're from, but you obviously didn't spend a lot of time with this particular demographic in South Carolina during the era.

Yup. My dad graduated from college in the late 60's and is originally from SC.

Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, James Brown... they are much more appropriate.

Oh yeah, and Rolling Stones instead of the Beatles.

 

[Naval Gent]

Not sure where you're from, but you obviously didn't spend a lot of time with this particular demographic in South Carolina during the era.

"...I'm talkin about music by the Tams, The Clovers, The Catalinas, The Embers..."

(Recognize that?)

Scott