1981 Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Winner:
* Ninth Configuration, The (1980) - William Peter Blatty
Other Nominees: # Elephant Man, The (1980) - Eric Bergren; Christopher De Vore # Ordinary People (1980) - Alvin Sargent # Raging Bull (1980) - Paul Schrader (I); Mardik Martin # Stunt Man, The (1980) - Lawrence B. Marcus
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)
Wel, I'll be blowed!
― Aimless, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)
WTF is The Ninth Configuration?
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)
Exactly?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, proved a workmanlike producer/director for 1979's The Ninth Configuration. Army psychiatrist Col. Kane (Stacy Keach) (teetering on the sanity brink himself) tries to minister to the patients in a military mental hospital. The fact that the hospital is located in a brooding old castle is hardly conducive to speedy recoveries. Nor does the mid-film barroom brawl indicate that Kane's approach to mental health is all that workable. Blatty adapted the screenplay for The Ninth Configuration from his own novel Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane (which also served as the film's title during one of its many releases). It is hard to tell if what you're going to see is the "director's cut," since there are several versions of this film, running anywhere from 99 to 140 minutes.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 23 August 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)
I've seen it. It's...strange.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 August 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)
Stacy Keach likely makes it stranger.
Is it Zardoz 70s film strange?
― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 23 August 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)
Actually, looking at that again, the win itself isn't even the most shocking thing. (I guess it's clear that the other noms split the vote and allowed this to happen.) The really shocking thing to me is that this even made the nominations round and thus was able to pull this off!
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:13 (eighteen years ago)
Man, that is RICH. I'm proud of the guy.
The only one of these with which I'm not familiar is #Stunt Man, The.
― Abbott, Thursday, 23 August 2007 05:16 (eighteen years ago)
clintonsparks.jpg
"get familiar"
― poortheatre, Thursday, 23 August 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)
Stuntman rulz. One of my all-time favorite movies of all time. Maybe not so art-grate as Elephant Man, but I like it better. Wipes the floor with Ordinary People and Raging Bull. Probably better than The Ninth Configuration, but who the fukk knows?
Anyway, Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback. Both in top form, both totally batshit crazy. Some funny shit, AMAZING stuntwork, nice tits, and enough gore to pass muster. Plus fucks with your head like Ira Levin.
Awesome A++ 70s WTF movie in '81.
― Bob Standard, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)
i think it got rereleased in about 1999...?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)
9th config, i mean
http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jndfg20/website/ninth.gif
^^^^ LOVE THIS
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)
Holy shit! I must see this movie.
― Bob Standard, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah, the photo just bumped this up to top of the netflix queue.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg
― buttoutofu (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:11 (sixteen years ago)
severin films recently put the stunt man out on blu ray/dvd
http://www.severin-films.com/2011/06/09/the-stunt-man-blu-ray/
"I had a virgin once. Had to go to Guatemala for her. She was blind in one eye and had a stuffed alligator that said welcome to Miami Beach."
― johnny crunch, Monday, 20 June 2011 16:53 (fourteen years ago)
"putting a dog licking his balls in the opening title sequence, i suppose, was a way of letting the audience know it was going to be an iconoclastic picture"
― johnny crunch, Monday, 20 June 2011 19:35 (fourteen years ago)