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say anything
TEEN MOVIES in the 80's were defined by John Hughes. The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Prink - these films are considered classics of the era.
BUT MY FAVOURITE movie of the 80's did not come out of the John Hughes machine. It is a post-high school, teen romance with an unforgettable cast of characters and the most quotable dialogue since The Princess Bride.
THIS FILM is defined by a single iconic image - a young man holding a boom box over his head.
YES, THE BOOM BOX and the Peter Gabriel song "In Your Eyes" blasting from it constitute what most people consider The Iconic Thing from Say Anthing. I would argue that nearly every scene is iconic, the boom box scene least of all.
SAY ANYTHING is my Dad's favourite romance, and he was eager to share it with me. I was already a fan of 80's movies, so I was excited to see it.
This film was an insta-favourite.
Lloyd Dobler is a dork, and a kickboxer, and infatuated with Diane Courte, "a brain trapped in the body of a game show hostess". Somehow, he convinces her to go to a party with him after graduation, and so their romance begins. She has one summer before she is leaving for England to begin her fellowship.
We are present for every up and down, and things get messy. In the big reunion scene between Lloyd and Diane, he's holding ice to his bloody, broken nose and she's pale and tearstained. I love that.