Say Anything...

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Say Anything is a pretty impressive directorial debut for Cameron Crowe. Not only does it establish all of the hallmarks we now associate with his films, it also does so with more confidence than you usually see with a lot of first-time directors. Crowe's not taking his awkward first steps as a filmmaker. He pretty much hit his stride right out of the gate.

Which is not to say there aren't aspects of this that seems a little awkward in retrospect. One of us had never seen this before and so there were a lot of things the other two had always taken at face value that were suddenly being called into question.

Topics include: Crowe's process of finding his films during the editing process and the pros and cons of that approach, the backlash against characters like Lloyd Dobler in the current cultural landscape and whether or not he's a deserving target, our humiliating break-up stories, your most elaborate romantic gestures, real life retweets, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Say Anything?
0:06.6	Hello and welcome? Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:32.0	I'm Chris.
0:32.7	I'm Donna.
0:33.4	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.3	And today we're revisiting Say Anything.
0:53.0	Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Say Anything. Although Cameron Crow had covered similar thematic territory in his screenplays for fast times at Ridgemont High and the wildlife, Say Anything marks his directorial debut.
1:03.0	And there aren't many first features that establish a filmmaker as cleanly or as clearly as this one does.
1:08.8	All of the elements that would more or less go on to define Crow's career are accounted for here.
1:13.8	The underdog hero, the humor, the romance, the music, the sentimentality.
1:19.5	And sure, some of his subsequent films are slightly more ambitious.
1:22.8	They maybe have a little bit more finesse and polish.
1:25.5	But we're not watching a new director awkwardly taking
1:28.0	their first steps. Crow seemed to hit his stride right out of the gate. There's an underlying
1:32.6	confidence to a lot of his best work, and a great deal of that is probably due to him following
1:36.8	that old adage, write what you know. And like many of his films, say anything draws heavily
1:41.6	from several real-life experiences.
1:48.3	The heartbreak he experienced because of the out-of-sync relationship he had with a girl he was pining for.
1:49.4	A friend named Corey who sent him songs she'd written about a guy named Joe.
1:53.4	Even the character of Lloyd Dobler, as much as he's probably a stand-in for Crow in a lot
1:57.6	of ways, he wasn't fully realized on the page until Crow's new neighbor,
2:01.8	an overconfident young man who rambled too much and worked kickboxing into every conversation,
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