In fact, Natalie Wood should have been nominated for "West Side Story" this year, but she "Where There Is No Grass" was nominated, and Natalie Wood's performance in "West Side Story" far exceeded her performance in "Where There Is No Grass". Perhaps it was because Natalie Wood was sung in a musical like "West Side Story" and was disqualified from the nomination. The following year, this scene also happened to Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady", and Hepburn was also not nominated because of the singing in the film. I don't know if it was because of compensation or not, Oscar gave Natalie Wood a nomination as usual, but this greatly reduced her chance of winning, which is another big performance of Oscar's 'brain wreck'.
Warren Beatty's first starring film was "Where There Is No Grass", in which he played the hero Bud, a confused and depressed young man. But critics at the time did not pay much attention to this handsome young man. Beatty then starred in Arthur Payne's arty crime drama "Beleaguered" in an effort to change people's perceptions of him. The film was well-received but audiences didn't buy it. In 1967, he became a Hollywood superstar with "The Male and Female Thief". While acting in the film, he also achieved impressive results in production, editing, and directing. In 1981, he won the Oscar for best director with "The Red Man".
Natalie Wood was 22 and Warren Beatty was 23 when the film was filmed. Natalie Wood is a Russian immigrant and a relatively successful child actress. At the age of 17, she successfully starred in "Rebel Without a Cause" and received an Oscar nomination. In 1981, he drowned while filming "Brainstorm" at the age of 43. Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty were Hollywood's most famous and brightest lovers. The equivalent of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie today. Just like the sad boy who fell in love with the beautiful girl in the film, Warren Beatty also fell in love with the dizzyingly beautiful Natalie Wood on the set of Nowhere in the World, and was also very Sad because Natalie Wood, now 22, is now the wife of actor Robert Wagner. When the boy swore affectionately to his sweetheart that he would marry her, Natalie clearly saw the eager look in Warren's sharp blue eyes. "They pierced my soul," she whispered to a friend in private. Unfortunately, this was also heard by her husband. Wagner rushed to the set every day to supervise Natalie's shooting, but the pair of those under surveillance couldn't restrain their mutual affection. In this way, Natalie and Wagner's marriage, which was once hailed as a godsend, ended because of Warren's intervention. What made Natalie even more heart-wrenching has just begun: after the divorce, she found that her lover who loved her wholeheartedly turned out to be an "amorous seed". Natalie suddenly regretted the beginning and ended her relationship with Warren as quickly as possible. There is a saying that there is no fragrant grass anywhere in the world, but Natalie chose that one. After a few years, she brought her resentment against Warren to the kingdom of heaven.
How many people can finally be with their loved ones? What ruined our unforgettable love? "Where There's No Grass" is a very moving film about two teenagers struggling with love and lust, who eventually part ways because of the times (the 1920s, pre-Depression) and their powerful and domineering parents. In the beautiful and peaceful American countryside, the beautiful girls Deanie and Bud are deeply in love with each other. Their love carries the enthusiasm and excitement of youth, as well as the helplessness and confusion of youth. However, they were forced to break up due to misunderstandings due to family, social and environmental reasons. In order to please their parents and live up to the moral standards of the times, the boy chose to give up being sent by his family to a university in another city for further study, but he exiled and depressed himself because of this deep love. As a result, Bud opened up with another The girls had sex; the girls even had a mental breakdown because of the blow, and ended up in a nursing home...and it ended up tormenting them and changing them forever. So will they ever be able to feel true love again? Many years have passed, and those fragments of youth have settled in Bud's memory. Bud found an ordinary girl to marry and have children, and he became an authentic farmer. And when Deanie got sick and got out of the nursing home, he mustered up the courage to meet Bud. Bud was already a mature man. He pulled up his pants and worked hard to clean the bullpen. The child is next to him. Bud introduces Deanie to his family one by one…. At the end of the film, someone asks Deanie if he still loves Bud. Deanie didn't answer, but said in his heart: No, nothing. She smiled softly, but her eyes were full of tears. Love is gone, leaving only a permanent scar in my heart. In her heart she recited the poem of Wordsworth: "There will be no more bright sunshine, magnificent grasslands and gorgeous flowers, no sorrow, we must draw strength from everything that exists."
What's interesting is that this tearful movie is the first kiss movie in movie history. When the 1896 short "Widow Jones" was released, critics once described the scene of the two people's faces squeezing together as "very disgusting", but the first kiss on the screen did not attract the same harsh criticism. Instead of the polite lip pecks in previous films, Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty have a genuine French kiss in this Ilya Kazan-directed drama. This is an inspirational gift for someone on the brink of despair. It may be a lovelorn, an interpersonal conflict, or a career crisis... It doesn't matter. Sometimes people don't need to step forward to fight difficulties, and sometimes the way out is just turning around. The plot of the film is full of tension, and more valuable is the meaning, which has gone beyond the scope of inspiration and provided a solution to the problem of life in the philosophical category.
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