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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $12.49 You Save: $2.45 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 13 March, 1975 DVD Release : 21 January, 2003 |
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Shampoo description For those who consider Bulworth to be a savage and unprecedented political send-up, it's worth revisiting Warren Beatty's first, and best, attempt at outrageous social criticism. Mercilessly exposing the essential vacuity of both the sexual revolution and conservative alarmism over cultural permissiveness, Shampoo remains the best movie ever made about Nixon's America, and one of the very best about the tragic and disappointing conclusion to the 1960s. Set on the eve of the 1968 presidential election that elevated Nixon to the Oval Office, Beatty's uproarious satire follows a hairdressing Lothario (played by Mr. You're So Vain himself) in and out of the beds of several women, including the wife of a wealthy businessman, his mistress, and his young daughter (Carrie Fisher, in her first screen role). Juxtaposing tropes from Restoration comedy with Southern California dialogue and a healthy, hilarious dash of running commentary from election returns, Beatty's ruthless awareness cuts through the film like a scalpel. The performances are uniformly excellent and surprisingly ego-free; though Jack Warden's portrayal of Lester, the twice-cuckolded businessman, stands out as a model of sensitive, nuanced parodic acting. Released in 1975 during the messy cleanup at the conclusion of the Watergate era, Shampoo neatly bookends the Nixon presidency, and concludes with the frightening finality of an iron door slamming on a cell. Commended for including the live version of Jefferson Airplane's Plastic Fantastic Lover. --Miles Bethany |
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| First off, the DVD cover is misleading. In the film, Beatty's hair is bigger, lighter in color and more messed up. And Julie Christie's hair is straight and very blonde. Goldie Hawn's hair is blonder, fluffier, and pulled back/out of her face more. As you can tell, I'm a connoisseur of hair, and SHAMPOO best documents that crucial bridge between 60's HAIR slobs and good, clean cut well-coiffed Americans of the 80's. (Based purely on aesthetics, those who came of age in the Reagan years applaud SHAMPOO, while dirty hippies shake their fists as the fringe element is figuratively trimmed! Totally awesome!)
The background of the film is politics, and the film takes place on election eve 1968. [The foreground is Beatty shagging. (In hindsight, you may think Warren is training for his upcoming, more demanding sessions with Madonna)]. No overt political messages are spoken. We simply catch some Nixon banners (and those Styrofoam hats - remember?), radio chatter, and TV speeches. A long, key scene takes place at a GOP contributors' party, but no one talks politics. Who would, when freshly trimmed Christie, Hawn, Lee Grant, and hard booze are in the swanky room! (The 80's rapper who "once got busy in a Burger King bathroom"* is way outclassed by Beatty here). The film's politics are a Rorschach test, with many viewers interpreting, "Beatty is describing the end of the 60's ideals." My friends agree, "By 1968 - or at least 1975 when the film was made - the hippie era was so yesterday!! The path is clear for disco, Reagan, and successively better hair!!" (I concur: Barry Gibb, Reagan, and A Flock of Seagulls had magnificent coifs that would make Beatty's George Roundy cheer). Although SHAMPOO's politics is vague subtext, it may help to know of Beatty's experience by 1975: Beatty actively supported RFK, raised money and gave PR advise for McGovern, and became BFF with McGovern's campaign manager Gary Hart (who later got too Beatty-esque for his own good.... Hart's advisers were actually telling him to stay away from Beatty... because of Beatty's womanizing image, not because of his politics). Contrary to the official Amazon review of SHAMPOO, I think BULWORTH - where Beatty wears his politics on his sleeve - is a better film. In BULWORTH, Beatty overtly attacks the 90's DEMOCRATS for being "Me Too" centrists. As he said in a real-life speech, "We don't need a third party. We need a *second* party." Agree with him or not, Beatty's got skills. And with the Hollywood consensus that "political films don't sell" (translates to "good Americans don't buy Hollywood's politics"), Beatty does it well - with a teaspoon of sugar... and hot babes... and good soundtracks... and his underrated "introverted" acting (the anti-Pacino)... and hot babes.... In summary: SHAMPOO and Beatty represent 60's freedom. And with that freedom comes responsibility. Keeping yourself finely groomed beautifies America and shows that you make an effort - and CARE - for society. * "Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground |
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