A Face in the Crowd - Vitajex sequence

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  • Vitajex commercial beautiful sequence from "A Face in the Crowd" by Elia Kazan.
    A Face in the Crowd is a 1957 film starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau, directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by Budd Schulberg, based on his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler".

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  • @JasonNation72
    @JasonNation72 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Andy Griffith should've won an Oscar for this performance.

    • @mairzydoats8050
      @mairzydoats8050 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Elia Kazan should have been awarded an Oscar as well. EK was caught up in the "Red" Scare during the era.

  • @abbcost1
    @abbcost1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    The greatest piece of social commentary and prophecy ever put on the screen.

  • @paddydoublems
    @paddydoublems 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Watched this movie last night and wow, I was blown away. Andy Griffith could act!!! The whole Vitajex montage was surreal as well.

    • @Krose333
      @Krose333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pat Mccurry You should now watch "Meet John Doe" a movie made just a sixteen years or so earlier, with radio and newspaper as the media. Same basic story; average Joe plucked from obscurity by an ambitious woman with access to mass media, but the nature of the hero "John Doe" differs from Lonesome in a crucial way. Both are very entertaining well crafted movies with talent all around. Have fun watching, comparing and contrasting.

    • @dudleymorris2337
      @dudleymorris2337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Vitajex sequence was a good decade ahead of its time, with its use of mixed media, quick cuts, and cynicism.

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Krose333 So true. With "Doe", you had radio and newspapers, not TV. You also had the hero who just wanted to play baseball for the love for it and not be famous.

    • @Rupert14
      @Rupert14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@dudleymorris2337 I am sure the Coen brothers watched this sequence a few hundred times.

    • @mairzydoats8050
      @mairzydoats8050 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      During the ending scene, where Lonesome is, well, finally alone, Andy Griffith was drinking real booze and he was Drunk. The producers did a Take Two, in which it was said he played a drunk when he was sober better than drunk.

  • @jamesbrady5663
    @jamesbrady5663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This is actually a pretty strange scene for a 1950s movie, way ahead of its time!

    • @Rupert14
      @Rupert14 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A fucking classic of American cinema. Any discussion that does not mention this masterpiece or The General in the first 30 seconds is a waste of time.

    • @michaelquinones-lx6ks
      @michaelquinones-lx6ks 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was the same bullshit even then, The quiz show scandal would happen two years later, So much for for 'nostalgia'.

  • @jamesfeldman4234
    @jamesfeldman4234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Vitajex commercials are 100% accurate. Vitajex does everything that these commericals say it does.

  • @andrewscott4014
    @andrewscott4014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The look on his face before the woman's hand feeds him the pill cracks me up every time.

  • @paulmerritt8593
    @paulmerritt8593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That grunting from the audience when the graph goes up! I'm dying over here. This is so great. Love this movie. I have seen it probably 5 times.

  • @Gobear1
    @Gobear1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    20 years before Network.

    • @Rupert14
      @Rupert14 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice catch.

    • @jimgoad7702
      @jimgoad7702 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @randywhite3947 "Fewer" than 20 years, if you really want to get pedantic.

  • @CityGirlCountry
    @CityGirlCountry ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love this rocking - and, rather risqué - sequence. It’s ahead of its time.

  • @KDC256
    @KDC256 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My wife howled with laughter when the woman in bed showed her multi-year supply of Vitajex!!
    Vitajex was the late 1950's version of Viagra!!

  • @gregorybufkin890
    @gregorybufkin890 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Falling in love with this film just from the shorts.

  • @salvatoreguarino8075
    @salvatoreguarino8075 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This movie is absolutely insane 👍

  • @RBAILEY57
    @RBAILEY57 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Vitajex was Viagra, 40 years earlier!
    I gained a new respect for Andy Griffith as an actor when I saw this the first time.
    The film has Elia Kazan written all over it!

  • @mordecaiesther3591
    @mordecaiesther3591 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤❤❤--> prediction of every pharma commercial

  • @nonamepersonok6436
    @nonamepersonok6436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Unrated exceptional movie

  • @garyspence2128
    @garyspence2128 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That's as freaky as anything made during the 60's or 70's. Both campy and absurd. Griffith didn't play the bad guy too often, but he could do it so well. Had that country good old boy charm, but also could turn sinister, if necessary. Reminds me of Henry Fonda in Leone's "Once Upon A Time In The West", when he played the role of Frank, the merciless outlaw who gets taken down by Charles Bronson. Another movie classic...

    • @scottlahti1252
      @scottlahti1252 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "Keep your loving brother happy."

  • @Lydiard91
    @Lydiard91 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Anyone else find the tune catchy?

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s the same melody as the already-popular real song “Kokomo”.

    • @Suddenlyits1960
      @Suddenlyits1960 ปีที่แล้ว

      @hebneh,No,it is not the same song. You must be tone deaf. Do you also think a 1957 Plymouth looks like a 1957 Chevy?

    • @thomasparker2447
      @thomasparker2447 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Of course - that's the point.

  • @johns.7501
    @johns.7501 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What a catchy jingle.

  • @M-1996A1
    @M-1996A1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Now... the hard sell.

  • @russellcampbell9198
    @russellcampbell9198 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Pill popping - an American tradition.

  • @RaymondAndTheCircle
    @RaymondAndTheCircle ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful? No. Ghastly, menacing and prophetic? YES.

  • @joypresleyify
    @joypresleyify ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those ladies' costumes leave little to the imagination! I love the scene when he doesn't know the mike is still on.

  • @SnowGiant.9
    @SnowGiant.9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Elia Kana was a great director of film making. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

  • @Dluxn8r
    @Dluxn8r 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You'll never convince me this isn't a veiled advertisement for Speed.

    • @Rupert14
      @Rupert14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Viagra, actually.

  • @Dogfather428
    @Dogfather428 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh My God!!!!!!
    Funniest thing I have seen in FOREVER!!

  • @LorenIpsum75
    @LorenIpsum75 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Vitajex pigs on the beach segment appear as the later animation style of Famous Studios.

  • @tailsprowerfan2729
    @tailsprowerfan2729 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is it me or would Andy griffin make great Joker

  • @danielchais4603
    @danielchais4603 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Viagra should use this ad.

  • @goofkat1737
    @goofkat1737 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    a classic that hates new stuff like elvis, television, and elvis on television.

    • @baronsledjoys1363
      @baronsledjoys1363 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      goof kat Holy shit, that's a great description!

    • @Suddenlyits1960
      @Suddenlyits1960 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      “A face in the crowd” has nothing to do with Elvis. Budd Schulberg wrote the story in the early 1950’s and has gone on record as saying Lonesome was loosely based on Will Rogers.
      The movie was made in 1957 and rock n roll was the trend at that time.

  • @TheAmericanNomad352
    @TheAmericanNomad352 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your welcome 0:18 0:53 1:25 2:03 2:07 2:13

  • @4021971
    @4021971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Viagra in the 50's

  • @thewatcher5271
    @thewatcher5271 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Andy Griffith As The Villain, Who Would've Thought It!?! Check Him Out In, 'Pray For The Wildcats' If You Get A Chance. Thank You. (Like #346 - Comment #74)

  • @paulmerritt8593
    @paulmerritt8593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The soft sell part is too much

  • @minespatch
    @minespatch 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This movie really redpills.

  • @peterbury9707
    @peterbury9707 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ppl say it was like Viagra, but meth was legal back then...

    • @Suddenlyits1960
      @Suddenlyits1960 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vitajex was a parody of pep pills sold back then. It had nothing to do with sex.

  • @databasedan6833
    @databasedan6833 ปีที่แล้ว

    His Vitajax was actually Jack Daniels in this movie…

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral7672 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is such a sad spectacle.

    • @Rupert14
      @Rupert14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sad, because it predicted how Americans would be so easily led like sheep to create US consumerism.
      Just ask Oprah "Lonesome" Winfrey.

  • @paulmerritt8593
    @paulmerritt8593 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did women really used to say "oompf oompf oompf" while having sex back then?

    • @ricardocantoral7672
      @ricardocantoral7672 ปีที่แล้ว

      Of course not. That's just something tame for the sake of marketing.

    • @Suddenlyits1960
      @Suddenlyits1960 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well ones things for sure,people “didn’t used to” ask such moronic questions back then.

  • @markbrown375
    @markbrown375 ปีที่แล้ว

    If that not Bill Clinton

  • @mooncrab
    @mooncrab ปีที่แล้ว

    Vitajex: 1957 Viagra 😊

  • @CalculusVariations99
    @CalculusVariations99 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey, an Asian guy