The Way We Were

[Banana]

Im watching the DVD after our Babs fest in teh week, it had to be done..

"Oh Hubbell...."

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[DizzyJenni]

Never heard of it! I take it good ol' Babs is in it :D

[Banana]

Never heard of it???????

Ive banned people for less!! :lol:

:banned:

[DizzyJenni]

:lol: i think i better go and google it.......!

[Mochali]

One of my all time favourite films...Just end up crying every time I watch :)

[Kalikareem]

Ahhhhhhhhh...Memories !!

[Banana]

Loving this film should be a pre requisite of anyone being a mod on HB.. especially as HB is primarily named after its leading star!!

:woho:

[Leah]

Jenni! :)

Plot

A flashback (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback) tells the story of an idealistic young woman, Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand)), who falls in love with Hubbell Gardner (Robert Redford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford)), while they are college students in the 1930s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930s). Their differences are immense: She is a Marxist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism), with strong anti-war opinions, and he is a laid-back troublemaker. She is drawn to him because of his goyish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goy) handsomeness and his natural writing skill, which she finds confident and captivating, though he doesn't work very hard at it. He is intrigued by her conviction and her determination to persuade others to take up social causes.
The two meet again at the end of World War II. She is working at a radio station, and he, having served as a Naval officer in the South Pacific, is trying to return to a conventional life. They fall in love and marry, as much because of their differences in background and temperament as despite them. Soon, however, Katie is incensed by the cynical jokes Hubbell's friends make, unable to understand his acceptance of their insensitivity and shallow dismissal of political engagement. At the same time, his serenity is disturbed by her want of social graces and her polarizing postures.
When Hubbell seeks a job as a screenwriter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriter) in Hollywood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood), Katie is disappointed, believing it to be a waste of his literary talent, and encourages him to pursue writing as a serious challenge instead. Despite her growing frustration, they move to California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California), where he becomes a successful, if desultory, screenwriter and the couple enjoys affluence and leisure. As the Hollywood blacklist grows and McCarthyism begins to encroach on their lives, Katie's political activism resurfaces, jeopardizing Hubbell's position and reputation.
Alienated by Katie's persistent abrasiveness, Hubbell has an affair with Carol Ann (Lois Chiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Chiles)), his college girlfriend and the ex-wife of his best friend J.J. (Bradford Dillman), even though Katie is pregnant with Hubbell's child. Katie and Hubbell decide to part, when she finally understands that he is not the man she idealized when she fell in love with him: he will always choose to take the easiest way out, whether it is cheating in his marriage or writing predictable stories for sitcoms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_comedy). Hubbell, on the other hand, is exhausted, unable either to live on the pedestal Katie erected for him or to face her disappointment in his choice to compromise his potential.
In the film's final scene, Katie and Hubbell meet by coincidence, several years after their divorce, in front of New York's Plaza Hotel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Hotel). Hubbell, who is with a stylish beauty and apparently content, is now writing for a popular sitcom as one of a group of hired and nameless writers. Katie, too, has remained faithful to who she is: flyers in hand, she is agitating for the newest political causes.
Katie, now re-married, tells Hubbell he should come see how beautiful their daughter is. He walks away saying that he will, only to return a moment later confessing that he can't, though he asks whether Katie's husband is "a good father" to their child. Katie's response acknowledges what they both finally understand: Hubbell was at his best when he was with her, and no one will ever believe in him or see as much promise in him as she once did. He could not bear her expectations then, and cannot bear them now. All that Hubbell and Katie can ever share is a poignant memory of the way they were.

[Kalikareem]

:catbwawawa: Beautifully told Leah....*sob*

[Carole]

Why was he called Hubbell?

[Banana]

Cause it was his name...... :holysheep:

[Lucia]

Why was he called Hubbell?

Because his parents lacked imagination and couldn't spell? :catwink:

I know, I know - I'm banned - I'd have had to resign as a mod anyway, because I can't stand either of them and think it's a right old pail of sick! :muahaha1:

[Leah]

:lol: Chris! I had to pinch the plot from Wikipedia, have never seen it.... didn't make me want to rush out and buy the dvd either.... [ ::lol: don't ban me! ::lol:]

[Carole]

I expect it was the old using a surname as a Christian name thing - as in Mr Proud Longdill calling his son Pynson Wilmot Longdill when he was born in 1780 (yes, they are real people!)

[Carole]

God, I'm sad :lol: There are lots of people with Hubbell as a first name like:

HUBBELL BOOGE OR BOGUE
Male

Event(s):

Birth:
1822
Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont


Christening:
Death:
17 SEP 1852



Burial:


Parents:

Father:
HARRIS BOOGE OR BOGUE (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=500090213740&lds=1&region=11&frompage=1)




Mother:
LAURA HUBBELL (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=500090213741&lds=1&region=11&frompage=1)