Talk:Picnic (film)

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[edit] Plot synopsis

Someone inserted the following, dreadfully written, incoherent and blatantly boostering plot summary. I don't think a synopsis is needed in the article but a cleanly written one would be ok. I've moved the inept prose here is someone wants to fix and re-insert it. The Witch 14:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Picnic's 24 hour cycle in the life of a single mother's two girl family is set in a smallish Kansas town. Starting in the morning of Labor Day, Hal, the drifter, meets a kindly old lady resident, a Mrs. Potts, not far from the railroad tracks, on which he had come to town, by freight train from "elswhere". An extremely likable looser, Hal had been a college football star, perhaps 7 years before, and now is looking up his old room mate, Alan, who's father owns the many huge grain elevators that tower over the town's railroad right-of-way. That railroad will be his way to leave the vicinity 24 hours later. All this, after "looking up" his old friend, meeting his friend's "girl", Madge, going to a big community picnic with Madge's younger sister, falling in love with Madge, getting his friend & local police very angry , & and after, presumedly, having spent the night in sensual bliss, asking her to join him for a life together... "Nothing big-time" in Hal's honest words. Her much wiser, but younger, sister advises her to follow him, quote: "For once in your life, Madge, do something smart!".This very "up close & personal" film ends with a James Wong Howe cinematographer's wide, wide 'copter shot of the distant train heading into the flat farmlands with a bus heading the same way. The great score of this iconic film rises triumphantly.

Ugh.

[edit] Technicolor?

Someone deleted a reference to Picnic being in Technicolor. The movie has a credit for the Technicolor consultant, however, and is shown in IMDB as in Technicolor. The New York Times review of the DVD agrees. I intend to restore the reference unless there is some objection.

Tex 22:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)