Carnal Knowledge Page #9

Synopsis: The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives. Their story begins in the late 1940s when they are roommates attending Amherst College together. Both virgins, they discuss the type of woman they would each like to end up with. Sandy, the more sensitive of the two, meets Susan at a mixer, she who he believes is going to be the one to who he will lose his virginity. Sandy goes through the process methodically, taking into account what he thinks Susan wants, but without much true passion or romance. Jonathan, the more sexually aggressive of the two, ends up losing his virginity first to "Myrtle", who ends up being a steady but hidden girlfriend. Based on what each knows of the other's relationship, both Jonathan and Sandy strive for a little more of what the other has. These relationships also set
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1971
98 min
960 Views


in a minute.

Can you cook?

Spaghetti.

I can cook

spaghetti.

Good,

you do the cooking.

What will you do?

What would you

like me to do?

What would you

like to do?

I asked you first.

Well, I'm not gonna

answer you first.

Well...

I can sew.

Doesn't sound like

much of a marriage.

Me cooking spaghetti,

and you sewing.

You want a divorce?

I'll take you for

every cent you got.

I didn't know

I was marrying

a gold digger.

Mm-hmm...

You won't

take pity on me?

Only if you say

you're sorry.

I'm sorry.

And you'll never

do it again.

I'll never

do it again.

And you'll always

be a good boy.

Yes, Mama.

You like

to be mothered?

I'd like to be

smothered by you.

What else would you

like me to do to you?

Well...

How do you like it?

How do I like what?

My, uh... you know.

What do I know?

You know everything.

I know you.

And I know you.

Mmm...

- Dream

- ( moaning )

When you're feeling blue

Dream

That's the thing to do

Just

Watch the smoke rings

Rise in the air

You'll find your share

Of memories there

So

Dream

When the day is through...

Wow... I almost

came that time.

( laughing )

( music playing )

Help!

Oh, nurse?

What is it,

Mr. Weisenborn?

Will you come in here

a minute, please?

Certainly,

Mr. Weisenborn.

Why,

Mr. Weisenborn!

Bobbie:

Most guys

I know are pricks.

( sighing )

I don't know anymore

what they want.

Jonathan:

I'll be happy

to tell you.

They want...

( slapping )

the boodle.

But they ain't

gonna get the boodle.

Goddamn right.

Because this kid here

has got the boodle.

You're pretty

sure of yourself,

aren't you?

Mmm...

( sighing )

You're a nice man.

And you're

a very lucky girl.

( chuckling )

( shower running )

( Jonathan humming )

You know something, Sam?

( Jonathan imitating

Humphrey Bogart )

What is it, sweetheart?

You think it would be

a fatal mistake

in our lives

if we shacked up?

It's very difficult,

Bobbie.

These last

couple of weeks,

we get along

so well together.

The idea...

I like you very much.

So much...

this idea...

to be perfectly honest,

I mean,

it sounds

very good to me.

Let's both give it

a couple of days

to think about it.

It sounds, like...

well, very good.

Very, very, uh...

well... good.

Only, our eyes

should be open.

If we should

go into this,

we should know exactly

what we're getting into.

It's just a shack-up.

I'm not asking for

your hand in marriage.

Yeah, well,

as long as we both

understand that.

We do.

I just thought

it's better

to get it all

out on the table,

( coughs )

so later, there can be

no possibility

of a misunderstanding.

I don't know how

many business deals

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Jules Feiffer

Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.When Feiffer was 17 (in the mid-1940s) he became assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner. There he helped Eisner write and illustrate his comic strips, including The Spirit. He then became a staff cartoonist at The Village Voice beginning in 1956, where he produced the weekly comic strip titled Feiffer until 1997. His cartoons became nationally syndicated in 1959 and then appeared regularly in publications including the Los Angeles Times, the London Observer, The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Nation. In 1997 he created the first op-ed page comic strip for the New York Times, which ran monthly until 2000. He has written more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. His first of many collections of satirical cartoons, Sick, Sick, Sick, was published in 1958, and his first novel, Harry, the Rat With Women, in 1963. He wrote The Great Comic Book Heroes in 1965: the first history of the comic-book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s and a tribute to their creators. In 1979 Feiffer created his first graphic novel, Tantrum. By 1993 he began writing and illustrating books aimed at young readers, with several of them winning awards. Feiffer began writing for the theater and film in 1961, with plays including Little Murders (1967), Feiffer's People (1969), and Knock Knock (1976). He wrote the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge (1971), directed by Mike Nichols, and Popeye (1980), directed by Robert Altman. Besides writing, he is currently an instructor with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. more…

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