Carnal Knowledge Page #11

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
966 Views


What do you do?

I mean,

when you're

not telephoning?

I'm not on the phone

that much.

It took me

45 minutes

to get through

this afternoon.

I'll go

get the beer.

No, I'll go.

I thought you

were too tired.

I haven't

been out all day.

Fresh air will

do you good.

Will you walk

with me?

Then I may as well

go myself.

( music from the TV )

To sing my love song too

And until the day

that one comes along

I'll sing

my song with you

For every little

fault that you have...

Wanna make love?

We haven't

in a week.

Is it a week?

It's funny.

Susan and I do all

the right things.

We undress in front

of each other.

We spend 15 minutes

on foreplay.

We experiment,

do it in different rooms.

It's a seven-room house.

We don't believe in

making a ritual of it.

We do it when

we feel like it.

We don't feel we have to

be passionate all the time.

Sometimes it's even

more fun necking.

We're considerate of

each other's feelings.

I had a tendency--

men, I guess, have--

to be selfish.

But I stopped.

I don't do that now.

We try to be patient,

and we are patient,

gentle with each other.

( sighs )

Maybe it's just not

meant to be enjoyable

with women you love.

Sandy...

do you want to get laid?

( sighs )

Please.

Sandy:
Very nice.

Jonathan:

Very nice indeed.

Indeed. Watch out.

I almost had it.

Sure,

you almost had it.

I almost had it.

Right, Cindy?

See that, Cindy?

He was lucky.

That's all.

Bastard,

that was out!

- Bullshit it was!

- Oh, bullshit.

Let Cindy

be the judge.

We'll do it over,

all right?

All right.

Fair's fair.

Deuce!

You see that shot,

Cindy?

Now we got

some tennis.

Hey!

Game!

Luck!

Luck, my ass!

Whoo-hoo!

You want to

take me on, Cindy?

It's my turn.

Oh, come on, Bobbie,

you're so awful.

You serve.

Very nice.

Hey, you play well.

Hey, Sandy, will you

look at this girl?

Terrific, Cindy.

Whoo! Hey!

She's racking me up.

I'm not kidding.

Look at this.

She's racking me up.

Beautiful.

Boy, will you

look at this?

40-love.

And I'm not taking

it easy on her either.

You and Lord & Taylor's

are gonna

have to work out

a trial separation.

I had the water running.

What did you say?

You and Lord & Taylor's

are going to

have to work out

a trial separation.

Look at the date.

What do you mean?

Five months ago.

( sighs )

I'm sorry I cost you

so much money.

( telephone ringing )

( ringing continues )

I want

to get married.

( door slams )

Are you tired

of me, Jonathan?

Am I ever.

- The answer is yes.

- I didn't say yes.

You said, "Am I ever."

I need more

in life than this.

Who put you up to this?

Your psychiatrist?

After a long,

exhaustive bed hunt,

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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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