#Dogfight (1991)

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Dogfight (Nancy Savoca, 1991).

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dogfight (1991), dir. nancy savoca

'dogfight', my beautiful underrated gem, my beloved anti-war, pro-love and kindness film. my sweet, tender balm for trying times. god i i miss river phoenix so much. what an incandescent talent. what a privilege that cinema has his performances immortalized in celluloid forever.

every scene in this film, every frame, pulsates with such pure, young emotion: first thrill then confusion and anger and then something warmer, something realer, something almost like love, the kind only possible on certain summer evenings. they never last forever the way we so desperately want them to. and then growing up, coming into terms with the inevitable cruelty of the world.

there's a scene about midway through the film when eddie and rose slow-dance around a music arcade, there are no words spoken, only the unraveling and revealing of something unnamed but so, so unmistakable.

but what also elevates this film from your standard forever-in-one-night romance fare is that it comes from a place of real hurt, it carves out its joy and grace and young love from a place of real cruelty. and that seeps through in every nuanced beat, even beyond language. that we need each other to survive—that our entire species depends on it in spite of all our protests—is such an embarrassing thing to come into terms with sometimes, but to be seen is a necessary precursor to being loved.

it's films like these that make me believe in everything again and thank god and the heavens that cinema is a capsule of time and memory and emotion.

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Dogfight (1991), dir. Nancy Savoca

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"Couldn't we just..."

DOGFIGHT (1991) | dir. Nancy Savoca

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gonna watch dinner in america. i have to understand why everyone seems to like it

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clingy

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6am post about my username bc I've never talked about it before and I'm bored.

There's a 1991 film called Dogfight and it centers around a marine who's spending his last night stateside with his friends. He's meant to ship out the next morning for Vietnam.

"The rules of the Dogfight were simple. Everyone puts in fifty bucks, and the guy with the ugliest "date" wins."

Eddie (the marine) brings Rose (daughter of a cafe owner) to the dogfight with the rest of his friends and their "dates". She ends up finding out about the game and it's rules and storms off. Eddie wins some money because Rose threw up in the bathroom.

Eddie spends the rest of the night trying to make it up to her, even going so far as to ditch his friends, and the two end up falling in love. Rose asks Eddie to write her, but he never does because he doesn't want his friends to find out. When the occupation ends, Eddie doesn't return home to his parents, no. He goes straight back to Rose, who is now the owner of her mothers cafe.

The word "Dogfight" refers to a close range aircraft fight. The modern term is much less fascinating and is just referred to as "maneuvering".

There was also a musical that ran shortly, based off of the film.

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[brixuth]

“You and me, against the pricks. Are you with me?”

Dogfight (1991)

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RIVER PHOENIX 1991 | Dogfight

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dogfight (1991)

[thecoparoom]

movie review of Dogfight

Boston Phoenix, October 1991

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I was tagged by @queenofattolia

List five of your favourite movies and let your followers decide which vibes fit you best.

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[pierreism]

Dogfight, 1991. dir. Nancy Savoca

Watching the Criterion restoration just confirms this isn't merely your favourite movie that you haven't seen in a while - it's one of the greatest ever made. Nancy Savoca is one of the best to ever do it.

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MBTI & Celebs

Brendan Fraser: INFP

“Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American actor.

Having graduated from the Cornish College of the Arts in 1990, he made his film debut in Dogfight (1991). Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties.

He gained further prominence for his starring role in With Honors (1994) as a Harvard student and George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged a star playing Rick O'Connell in The Mummy trilogy (1999–2008). (…)

Fraser's film career was revitalized by roles in Steven Soderbergh's No Sudden Move (2021) and Darren Aronofsky's The Whale (2022).

His starring role as an obese gay man in the latter earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Canadian to win this category.”

Sources: video, wiki/Brendan_Fraser. Screencaps: transcript.