A Summer Place [1959]. Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue overacting to the maximum in this drama of adult and teen angst set on an island off the coast of Maine. Sloan Wilson’s novel comes to melodramatic life in this exploration of the growing sexual permissiveness of America. See where it all started and how. The concerns of the teens will seem charming to some and totally odd to younger post moderns.
Your geographic view is of the coast of Maine. The isolation of the island and the rocky coast are well depicted. The coast is beautiful and Holly wood travels to places like this partially to just show that big view that television has lacked most of its life.
Then again, just that people might love on a island and have some isolation from postmodern life, may be a geographic mention that will strike a chord with many in any postmodern audience.
You also get to see a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. The Della Walker house is worth a look by itself. Lloyd attempted to make architecture fit its environment, to become a part of it not a separate element. His home blends into the rocks of the shore.
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