{"id":31730,"date":"2013-06-10T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31730"},"modified":"2020-12-28T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T17:22:19","slug":"nickelodeon-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31730","title":{"rendered":"Nickelodeon (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Any jerk can direct!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Poster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the early days of Hollywood, an attorney (Ryan O&#8217;Neal) and a cowboy (Burt Reynolds) &#8212; both in love with the same woman (Jane Hitchcock) &#8212; become involved in the burgeoning motion picture industry.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian Keith Films<\/li>\n<li>Burt Reynolds Films<\/li>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood<\/li>\n<li>Lawyers<\/li>\n<li>Movie Directors<\/li>\n<li>Peter Bogdanovich Films<\/li>\n<li>Ryan O&#8217;Neal Films<\/li>\n<li>Stella Stevens Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeter Bogdanovich&#8217;s unabashedly affectionate paean to the earliest days of the motion picture industry remains a curiously uninvolving effort &#8212; one so focused on recreating elements and attributes of its era that it forgets to tell a compelling tale in its own right. The ultimate point of the storyline seems to be that luck and timing (i.e., serendipity) played a defining role in determining who found work and success in early Hollywood &#8212; see the selected quote above for an indication of the attitude on display, supposedly meant as a contrast to the arrival of &#8220;real&#8221; (i.e., auteurist) cinema (as signified by the film&#8217;s powerful culminating sequence, in which the various characters join a wider audience to watch the inaugural screening of D.W. Griffith&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1187\"><em>The Birth of a Nation<\/em><\/a>). Meanwhile, Bogdanovich&#8217;s screenplay incorporates weak attempts at silent-era slapstick (bespectacled O&#8217;Neal is a sort-of stand-in for Harold Lloyd), as well as a standard-issue love triangle subplot which fails to involve us. While serious cinephiles will surely be curious to check this one out given its subject matter, it&#8217;s ultimately a missed opportunity; see Howard Zieff and Rob Thompson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31573\"><em>Hearts of the West<\/em><\/a> (released the previous year) for a much more successful and authentic evocation of early Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/3749\/nickelodeon#articles-reviews?articleId=247103\">TCM&#8217;s article<\/a> offers some valuable insights into why this film wasn&#8217;t as successful as it could have been; Bogdanovich&#8217;s vision was apparently thwarted.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burt Reynolds as Buck Greenway<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Reynolds.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Reynolds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Reynolds.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Reynolds-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Reynolds-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>An affectionate homage to early Hollywood<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Ode.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Ode.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Ode.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Ode-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Nickelodeon-Ode-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a one-time look simply for its obvious interest to cinephiles. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074964\/?ref_=sr_1\">IMDb entry<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?res=9B0DE6D6113AE03BBC4A51DFB467838D669EDE\">NY Times Original Review<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/3749\/nickelodeon#articles-reviews?articleId=247103\">TCM Article<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.tvguide.com\/nickelodeon\/review\/107421\">TV Guide Review<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmovie.com\/movie\/nickelodeon-v103872\/review\">All Movie Guide Review<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1530&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/nickelodeon-1976\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Any jerk can direct!&#8221; Synopsis: In the early days of Hollywood, an attorney (Ryan O&#8217;Neal) and a cowboy (Burt Reynolds) &#8212; both in love with the same woman (Jane Hitchcock) &#8212; become involved in the burgeoning motion picture industry. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Brian Keith Films Burt Reynolds Films Comedy Hollywood Lawyers Movie Directors Peter Bogdanovich Films Ryan O&#8217;Neal Films Stella Stevens Films Review: Peter Bogdanovich&#8217;s unabashedly affectionate paean to the earliest days of the motion picture industry remains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=31730\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31730"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60189,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730\/revisions\/60189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}