He’s considered a “punk,” even though he tends to dress and behave just like everybody else. Tommy winds up in fisticuffs with Nicolas Cage which, I would assume, ostracizes Cage within the local youth community, but he seems to be a misfit anyway, so it doesn’t matter.
#Rewind clothing 1983 movie
I think I hate Tommy, and I will give the movie credit for making me feel things about the characters. Daily feels guilty, but Tommy’s a douche who refuses to adjust the collar of his sensible polo shirt. I guess there’s a pecking order for weirdos.
He surveys the crowd like they’re a bunch of circus freaks. If Foreman is a “valley girl”, what’s Cage? I would say he’s a “grody dweeb,” whatever that is. Referencing the quote above, Foreman breaks it off with boring Tommy, so he looks up her best friend, Elizabeth Daily. She checks out Cage on the beach while her friends mock his awkward masculine dowdiness. Her toothy, amiable countenance drives the plot. Though hirstute thespian Nicolas Cage gets top-billing, this is Foreman’s movie. Idiots and their collars.įor the purposes of story, we have to focus on Deborah Foreman. Running up $200 credit card bills in 1983 doesn’t strike me as upper-middle class. The Wikipedia has a curious definition for the quintessential Valley girl: “Originally referring to upper-middle class girls from the Los Angeles commuter towns of San Fernando Valley during the 1980s, the term in later years became more broadly applied to any English-speaking female who engendered the associated affects of ditziness, airheadedness, and/or greater interest in conspicuous consumption than intellectual or personal accomplishment.” I had no idea the definition had gone that far off the rails. They bitch and moan and lust after the boys and go to big parties in the Valley. They go shopping for clothing and run up huge credit card bills. We have four girls, friends, hanging out in the mall, scarfing down cheeseburgers and milkshakes.
If you say you don’t like Valley Girl (God help you), you’ll get nothing but icy stares for the rest of your existence. This is one of those movies everybody has to say they love or they won’t be taken seriously. Valley Girl, 1983 (Nicolas Cage), Atlantic Releasing Corp.
“It’s like I’m totally not in love with you anymore, Tommy.
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