Say Anything - Clip-a-Palootza
Today’s post is for Christina, who’s new to the Lloyd Dobbler fan club, a feast of clips from Say Anything…
Spoilers follow. This post is for the Lloyd Dobbler-informed only.
“So you’re . . . monumentally busy?”
Lloyd asks Diane out.
Great tag on that clip. “What do we love? Pain!”
“I’m Lloyd Dobbler.”
At the party. Lloyd shares for the first time that he’s looking for a dare-to-be-great situation.
The bonus is Lili Taylor singing her painful love songs about Joe, heh.
“You must chill!”
End of the party. That’s Eric Stoltz there, as Rooster. And of course, Jeremy Piven, too drunk to drive.
“I don’t want to buy anything, sell anything, process anything as a career . . .”
My favorite scene, when Lloyd is asked about his future plans. I think my career goals when I was 18 were essentially the same as his here.
“I said it.”
They break up.
Which leads to the classic line of the film - “I gave her my heart. She gave me a pen.”
“Bitches man.”
Lloyd asks the boys for advice.
In Your Eyes.
The defining scene of the movie.
And finally, the Film Trailer.
It’s Lloyd’s world, we just live in it, folks!
February 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Thanks! I watched them all - I had missed Corey’s songs and somehow missed the dinner scene where he unloads his career plans (or lack thereof) on the adults. Also, isn’t that Madness playing at the party (where the kids are dancing)? Another great 80s band. (Or Fishbone?)
I still can’t believe it took me this long to see it… It’s fun to find out how much it lined up with your life.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
It’s not Madness, I think it is FISHBONE.
Yeah, you should watch it again without commercial interruption . . . it’s simply too worthy, finely crafted piece of work.
And there’s a theme, in a sense, about the men in her life, her father resists Lloyd, partly out of London but also partly, I think, out of jealousy, out of having to share his wonderful daughter who chose him over her mother. And then a boy comes in, who’s the complete opposite of what he’d want for his daughter.
And still she chooses the boy, in the end.
She’s transitioning and its fascinating.
Anyway, heh. I’d better stop now, heh-heh.