Great Movie Moments - Splendor in the Grass

The first time I watched this movie, this scene -- not the scene in which Warren Beatty pushes Natalie Wood to her knees, or frolics naked under the waterfall with the town tramp(the girl in the orange sweater here) -- made me prick up my ears.  When Miss Metcalf (Martine Bartlett) made Natalie Wood read the Wordsworth lines aloud, I scribbled them on a scrap of paper and found the poem in one of my mother's college textbooks. I was about twelve or thirteen years old and for the next few days managed to slip a few lines of WW into all of my conversations as I tried to memorize Wordsworth's Immortality Ode. What an insufferable brat!

Watch the first four minutes:

-- sdh

Comments

this is certainly a great scene. it's a strange movie -- hard to do passage of time as when she's in the asylum. the scenes with beatty and his father are outstanding.
-- mitch s.