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Shampoo (1975)
In Hal Ashby's sex comedy farce set during a 24-hour
time period on November 4th, 1968 when Richard Nixon won the presidency:
- the numerous sex scenes between studly, liberated,
seductive playboyish Beverly Hills hair-dresser George Roundy (Warren
Beatty) and three women - all in one day, and his quintessential
question: "Want me to do your hair?" - and George's inarticulate
repeated expression:
"You're great!" to all of his female conquests; and the
sensual way that George 'did' his clients' hair in the salon
- the love triangle between conservative, wealthy businessman
Lester's (Jack Warden) mistress Jackie Shawn (Julie Christie) - George's
old girlfriend, Lester's wife Felicia (Oscar-winning Lee Grant),
and George's current pert girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn), an aspiring
actress
- Lester's seductive teenaged daughter Lorna (Carrie
Fisher) - who wanted to avenge her cheating mother through sex with
her hairdresser, with her forward request to George:
"You're my mother's hairdresser...Do you wanna f--k?"
- the scene of George having sex with Jackie in a steamy
bathroom when interrupted by Lester (and they pretended to be doing
her hair and telling him to close the door and not let the steam
out)
- the 1968 Nixon election-night victory dinner where
Jackie groped between George's legs under the table - and her famous
bold response to executive Sid Roth (William Castle): "Most
of all, I'd like to suck his c--k!", causing George to do a
spit-take and almost choke on a piece of chicken
- the scene of Lester and Jill's stumbling upon George
in a boathouse during a party - where he was having sex with Jackie,
and Lester's amused first reaction (without knowing their identities)
when a refrigerator door slowly opened, illuminated and caught Jackie
and George in the act: "That's what I call f--king! Am I right,
or am I right?" - then followed by George's innocent statement
to an enraged Jill: "Honey, where have you been? We've been
looking everywhere for you"
- George's excuse told to Lester about his sexual proclivities
with so many women: "How am I gonna tell you what they got against
you. I mean, Christ, they're women aren't they? You ever listen to
women talk, man? Do ya? 'Cause I do till it's runnin' outta my ears!
I mean, I'm on my feet all day long listening to women talk, and
they only talk about one thing: how some guy f--ked 'em over. That's
all that's on their minds. That's all I ever hear about! Don't you
know that?...We're always trying to nail 'em and they know it. They
don't like it. They like it and they don't like it, it's got nothin'
to do with you, Lester. It just happened"
- the final long shot of morally-shallow, bleak miserable
and hedonistic George looking down while atop a Hollywood/Beverly
Hills bluff after losing Jackie to Lester
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