Identify this (probably really awful) movie!
March 2, 2009 10:10 AM Subscribe
Identify this (probably really awful) movie!
The scene:
We're in some land where people live before they are born. Apparently, you grow up here and age as you normally would until the day that you're born on Earth and you have to leave the before you're born world.
The scene follows a teenage boy (in a blue...toga?) and a teenage girl (in pink), both with dark hair (I think), who have fallen in love. Unfortunately, the time has come for one of them to be born, and now they have to be split up. (How tragic!)
It was something that came on TV, basic cable, when I was a kid (so we're talking early to mid 90s). My mom was watching it and it was just on as I walked in and out of the room, so I don't really know the rest of the movie. I'm pretty sure this is just a side story, though. The movie had a 60s feel to it, and for a long time I thought it was some scene from Jason and the Argonauts, as I had seen that movie about the same time. (I just watched Jason and the Argonauts last week, though. It's not Jason and the Argonauts.) But as far as color and style went, it could have easily been that. It's possible it could have been a Mystery Science Theater 3000 thing (my mom watched a lot of MST3K) and I'm just not remembering the mocking, but I went through the episode guide the other day and can't find anything on there.
As I've been thinking about this, though, I think this other random-scene-from-a-movie-I-saw-when-I-was-little might be from the same movie. Here's what I remember of that:
A man (and maybe his mom?) were on a quest (?), and come upon a fountain of youth. Or something similar. It was in this room surrounded by a bunch of young-looking people (wearing purple?). The guy (or possibly his mom) was about to take a drink from it, when suddenly the man realizes that, while all these folks hanging out in the fountain room are hot young things, they are also blind (omg!) and that's the price you have to pay for immortality.
It had the same (cheesy 60s movie) look and feel of the earlier scene, so my brain might be linking these two for that reason only, but I have a good feeling that they're the same one. Searching the "fountain of youth" "greek myth" and "blindness" movies on IMDB have turned up nothing.
This has been bugging me off and on for years (years!) so if you guys have any idea as to what the movie (or movies) is, I will heart you forever.
Yes, I know I could ask my mom if she remembers, but I'm almost certain she doesn't. If I asked, she would spend hours searching for it online using the same methods that I already have and coming up short. I don't want to waste her time.
The scene:
We're in some land where people live before they are born. Apparently, you grow up here and age as you normally would until the day that you're born on Earth and you have to leave the before you're born world.
The scene follows a teenage boy (in a blue...toga?) and a teenage girl (in pink), both with dark hair (I think), who have fallen in love. Unfortunately, the time has come for one of them to be born, and now they have to be split up. (How tragic!)
It was something that came on TV, basic cable, when I was a kid (so we're talking early to mid 90s). My mom was watching it and it was just on as I walked in and out of the room, so I don't really know the rest of the movie. I'm pretty sure this is just a side story, though. The movie had a 60s feel to it, and for a long time I thought it was some scene from Jason and the Argonauts, as I had seen that movie about the same time. (I just watched Jason and the Argonauts last week, though. It's not Jason and the Argonauts.) But as far as color and style went, it could have easily been that. It's possible it could have been a Mystery Science Theater 3000 thing (my mom watched a lot of MST3K) and I'm just not remembering the mocking, but I went through the episode guide the other day and can't find anything on there.
As I've been thinking about this, though, I think this other random-scene-from-a-movie-I-saw-when-I-was-little might be from the same movie. Here's what I remember of that:
A man (and maybe his mom?) were on a quest (?), and come upon a fountain of youth. Or something similar. It was in this room surrounded by a bunch of young-looking people (wearing purple?). The guy (or possibly his mom) was about to take a drink from it, when suddenly the man realizes that, while all these folks hanging out in the fountain room are hot young things, they are also blind (omg!) and that's the price you have to pay for immortality.
It had the same (cheesy 60s movie) look and feel of the earlier scene, so my brain might be linking these two for that reason only, but I have a good feeling that they're the same one. Searching the "fountain of youth" "greek myth" and "blindness" movies on IMDB have turned up nothing.
This has been bugging me off and on for years (years!) so if you guys have any idea as to what the movie (or movies) is, I will heart you forever.
Yes, I know I could ask my mom if she remembers, but I'm almost certain she doesn't. If I asked, she would spend hours searching for it online using the same methods that I already have and coming up short. I don't want to waste her time.
Best answer: This is a scene in the Shirley Temple movie, The Blue Bird. It is "The Land of Tomorrow".
posted by muddgirl at 10:15 AM on March 2, 2009
posted by muddgirl at 10:15 AM on March 2, 2009
Re-reading your question, I am talking about the first scene you describe - with the boy and the girl who are in love but must separate because one will be born soon. I don't believe the second scene is from the same movie but it has been 15 years or so since I went through my Shirley Temple phase.
posted by muddgirl at 10:19 AM on March 2, 2009
posted by muddgirl at 10:19 AM on March 2, 2009
The first scene described, of people in pastel togas waiting to be born, is definitely from The Blue Bird, including the teens in love. I don't recall the later fountain-of-youth scene from that movie, though.
posted by motsque at 10:23 AM on March 2, 2009
posted by motsque at 10:23 AM on March 2, 2009
Best answer: The blind-fountain-of-youth thing is from a TV adaptation of Gulliver's Travels (maybe the mid-90s Ted Danson one?), and it's how they chose to depict the Struldbrugs.
posted by scruss at 10:24 AM on March 2, 2009
posted by scruss at 10:24 AM on March 2, 2009
I don't think it is the Clonus Horror, which is a great cheesy movie.
posted by Ironmouth at 10:31 AM on March 2, 2009
posted by Ironmouth at 10:31 AM on March 2, 2009
Response by poster: Wow, so I was way off. 1960s for the lose. muddgirl, scruss, you guys rock. Thanks!
posted by phunniemee at 10:36 AM on March 2, 2009
posted by phunniemee at 10:36 AM on March 2, 2009
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posted by Faint of Butt at 10:15 AM on March 2, 2009