The Beach Party Genre
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Before John Hughes, before Dazed and Confused, and before Twilight, there were the Beach Party films - one of the first times Hollywood produced films that were specifically designed for and marketed to teenagers. Let's dive in to what is undeniably one of the oddest subgenres in films history (but maybe one that was also pretty fun?).
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The "teen film" genre has always fascinated me in general, but I grew up watching a lot of teen beach films, so I loved this breakdown of the phenomenon!
Finally living up to your channel's name i see
Good one!
One of my favorite things about this video is how it asks you to take things with a grain of salt. Show business is a business. Marketing is marketing. Market trends are market trends. And yet somehow tied into that is the primordial ritual of storytelling that's happened since humans first could communicate. I've always believed that 90 percent of any storytelling marketplace produces crap, and 10 percent is good. Hollywood is no exception. We get formula and trends, but we also get some nice gems along the way. Making a blanket statement about "hollywood" being "good" or "bad" isn't helpful. But it is fun to understand the machine a bit more. The same machine that brought us Casablanca.
Ed Garner, one of the regular "beach party gang" in the Frankie & Annette ones (from "Beach Party" to "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini") passed away on March 5th (2022). RIP surfer dude.
I suspect the “British pop star in the mould of John Lennon” only seems to reference Lennon specifically in retrospect, because he wears granny glasses, a style with which Lennon came to be associated. But Lennon didn’t start wearing that style of glasses (or ANY glasses in public, for the most part) until a couple years AFTER Bikini Beach was released. If he IS meant to satirise Lennon specifically (rather than a generic “British invasion” pop star), the choice of eyewear is incredibly prescient.
I feel as though the whole Peter Pan syndrome described, the "a younger child will watch anything an older child will watch " ect, is really evident of movies like "The Nun" or "The Bye Bye Man". Garbage horror movies that teens end up seeing. Younger kids wanna watch it to seem cool, guys take girls to see it (a dumb cliché, I know). YA movies I guess are kinda interesting in that they subvert the Peter Pan syndrome... kinda.
Human Bean that's exactly how movies like The Bye Bye Man or Truth or Dare, even The Purge movies get greenlit.
It's dumb, fun horror that people watch for a fumb, fun time.
Honestly I’m relieved to find that YA movies like... did something good
Man, this one was interesting. I have no interest at all in teen films, especially in the beach party genre, but this was a great watch. Excellent work as always!
I remember in like the eighties they make back to the beach with Frankie and Annette that and mystery science theater 3000 are the reason I know anything about this genre which all ways seem to be super over the top silly.
Hey look, a movie about what's happening with superhero movies without talking about superhero films whilst also shedding light on a mostly-forgotten trend from the 60s. I like it.
It's looks like gaslight theater in new show 40th anniversary celebration party years New come back to look like it was great good
Please don't stop making such high quality essays. You're criminally underrated my dud, but hopefully soon you'll get the attention u deserve
I was born in the late 70s, long after this series ran its course. But! I have always had an odd soft spot for the Beach Party films. I still prefer the original 1959 "Gidget" but... eh... why compare? Wether I'm watching Sandra Dee or Annette Funicello, James Darren or Frankie Avalon, I have a smile on my face and a warm heart. I go back to the beach movies again and again just to have that feeling. Strangely enough, I especially enjoy watching these movies in the dead of winter.....
Great video. A lot of people would consider this a trite genre and just ignore it altogether but it's pretty interesting to see the marketing strategies behind it's existence and how it's legacy still lives to this day in newer trends.
Great essay. Makes me think of that scene in "That Thing You Do" where the Wonders play in a beach party film at the apex of their stardom. Everything crashed and burned after that.
I love how creative and interesting these essays are
The study of certain film genres fascinate me. Thanks for making this.
I just like how Disney made fun of the genre when they were making Teen Beach Movie.
I love how ironic it was because earlier disney channel movies WERE the teen beach movies of my generation. High School Musical, Camp Rock, Hannah Montana. Safe, formulaic movies that featured "teens" but were really marketing 8-12 year olds and we LOVED IT and it all came full circle
@@scifikoala I concur, I was a total sucker for them xD
Disney Channel practically encompasses my entire childhood.
If Disney didn't make Teen Beach Movie until now, it would provide exactly the same experience as the worst beach party movie. Just sayin'
Great job on this! I loved this short lived genre. The results vary, but they're colorful, goofy fun. Mainly the A.I.P. ones. They had the formula down well. Leaving out the parents was really smart. It makes the world of these 30-something "teenagers" quite otherworldly. The formula became less "sexy and adult" over time. For instance, in the 1st film of the series "Beach Party" the kids are seen on the beach drinking beer. Then, Dr. Pepper helped finance the films and you saw "Dr. Pepper" everywhere. They even had there spokesteen, Donna Loren join the series. Good stuff!
Awesome analysis (as always!). What's been really interesting about the MCU cluster of movies, is that Disney managed to combine the Peter Pan Syndrome model with Nostalgia, successfully pulling in both teenagers, and adults wanting to revisit their teen interests. Which of course has resulted in the single largest combined market share in history. Yet another masterful stroke of the business knowing audiences better than they know themselves...
And it gave aged Comedy-Superhero Buster Keaton something to do. He even contributed some (working!) visual gags.
I was just about to mention how this feels a lot like the YA Dystopian trend of now.
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Great video! I've grown up hearing about the Beach Party movies a number of times, whether it was through Siskel and Ebert, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, or even a friend who is a big fan of American International Pictures films, but haven't seen any of them yet. I'll definitely have to check them out. Ironically, the one I'm most curious about though is "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini", mainly because I'm a big Basil Rathbone fan.
The Great Dick Dale loved making the Beach Party Movies
Annette Funicello was a national treasure.
I love it it's so much fun making flash back past life look back at movie made into store story about doing so many times and hollywood and I will see if I just
I am really excited remember her she's was in Mickey mouse club on Disney company channel Disney classic Disney plus on Disney movies and I have to be there in
Okay, I lost my shit at 5:36.It adds so much personality to a really saturated market of video essays. Keep up the good work!
5:36
I really love your videos. You talk about most things people don't even think about and you dont do it with hate or annoyance like most TH-cam critics do. You dont think you're above them, but you acknowledge them for what they are. And I really appreciate that. Keep up the great work
Always felt the Monkees project owed more to Frankie and Annette beach movies than those stupid Beatles movies; all were teensploitation product. All they really had in common with the Beatles was hair and a vague image.
The graphic design in your videos is beyond amazing
This was interesting. It reminded me of the movie That Darn Cat (original 1965 film). The stuff shown on tv and in films within the movie itself was centered around surfing. Like there's a part where two of the main characters go on a date to a drive-in cinema and it's a surfing themed double feature. At one point the guy says "All these surf'n pictures look a like". Must've been a reference to this film craze. Even calling it out. Just funny that that time period was referenced and mocked back then just like movies are today.
Well something else started in 1967 when Bonnie and Clyde hit theaters.
I wish the super hero genre started and stopped as quickly as the beach party genre did.
The “Peter Pan principle” seems to me to be spectacularly ill-named. Peter Pan famously resisted growing up, and a “Peter Pan” complex is a desire by an adult to remain a child or behave like one. “A younger child will watch what an older child watches, but an older child will not watch what a younger child watches” seems to be the diametric opposite: a child aspiring to seem more adult than they are, and a young adult viewing anything that lumps them in with children as anathema.
I think it is important to note that Palm Springs Weekend was a beach film that was set... IN A DESERT!
GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI is fantastic for its cast (mostly cameos, but what the hey) - Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Patsy Kelly, Jesse White, Francis X. Bushman, Benny Rubin (who was huge on radio and one of the great dialect comedians of the century), Nancy Sinatra, plus Tommy Kirk (after Uncle Walt fired him) and Deborah Walley. Toss in Harvey Lembeck as Erich von Zipper (my favorite recurring character) and you've got an evening's mindless entertainment. I used to watch these films primarily for the humor, since I lived nowhere near a beach and had no interest in surfing. The music was always mediocre and forgettable, except for the occasional name band or performer (yep, Stevie Wonder in a beach movie - go figure). Always found it interesting that Frankie Avalon, an ok singer compared to the rest of the teen singers of the era, became such a huge film star while Bobby Rydell, the best singer of the lot (and a very good drummer, to boot), made a single movie. But at least he got a high school named after him.
5:43 ... talking to a 'phallus' and being wondrous about a film called 'Ghost in The Invisible Bikini' is just hilarious!
l liked the water skiing scene , in Bikini Beach, when they are using surfboards to water ski .
I can't believe there's a name for it. Peter Pan Syndrome has been a theory of mine for ages. I was so perplexed that boys at my school were reading the Hunger Games in the lead up to its theatrical release. It's still a phenomenal success story of marketing.
Really. I read those books in middle school and never really thought of it as feminine coded or something meant specifically for female readers. Now that you bring it up, it is fascinating how that was the only other YA franchise besides Twilight that didn’t collapse on itself while also garnering appreciation beyond its intended niche.
The Arkoff Formula is not the Peter Pan syndrome . The Peter Pan syndrome (PPS) is a pop psychology term that describes adults who have difficulty growing up and facing adult responsibilities. It's a metaphor that refers to adults who are socially immature and trapped in childhood. PPS is not a recognized clinical diagnosis, but it can impact relationships and has some overlap with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
Don't you just love it when someone who wasn't even around then tries to tell you all about it? You will never know how good those times were.
THIS is one of your best! Good job!
This is one of the best channels around.
Great analysis! I grew up watching an old VHS recording of Beach Blanket Bingo. And it's so funny to learn about all the other almost identical movies they made.
Awesome video man. Keep doing these educational videos where you shed light on subjects most people don’t know about 👌🏼
Now Teen Beach movie makes a lot more sense lol
I just got through a lot of these this Summer for the 1st time. Really fun stuff.
I actually love all the beach party movies. Or most of them, rather. Rock and Roll, Eric Von Zipper, and plenty of scantily-clad mega-babes. What's not to love?
Beach party is exactly like a Monkees episode with less music
All culminating in Teen Beach Movie!!!!
If you really want a taste of the Beach Genre with all of the campy fun but plenty of self-awareness and still holds up IMO, watch "Back to the Beach". It's like a love letter and a parody of the genre and I friggen ADORE it!
there is also a funny recent Beach Party Movie by ... the Disney Channel! It's called Teen Beach Movie and its meta approach is pretty entertaining!
What movie had the girl sending the dude flying with their hip because that was hilarious. Also, this video gives quite a bit of context to an old Disney channel TV movie I saw a while back.
Now this is the kind of forgotten movie shit that needs coverage.
A film about illegal racing? I've seen one of them. "Eat My Dust" starring a teenage Ron Howard. It's editing is so incompetent, it's hilarious!
(While the car is in mid-air leaping over a shed; girlfriend VO): "Wait!" (The movie literally pauses, VO cont.): "Put it in reverse!" (Insert of Ron's hand on the shift. Back to the car as the footage reverses the car against gravity back over the shed and over the ledge.)
(While at an abandoned barn, the girlfriend dries off from the shower. To Ron): "Fill up the tank. I'll be down in five seconds." (Shoddy editing shows Ron filling up the gas with barrels from a wagon and jumping and disappearing---all shots out of order and a half-second long. A five-second cheat.)
When Hollywood discovers Yaoi, the shit will really hit the fan.
They're already trying to tap into anime adaptations. It's only a matter of time.
Ceeryle Brown Yes but is America ready for boys in love? I can see a massive audience of girls, women and creepy pastors while Fox news and Baptists scream abuse from above.
Ceeryle Brown After Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball movies flopped I have serious doubts.
after death note you can go a little farther than serious doubts
@@graphite2786 . . . Creepy pastors? Those will be the proponents, huh. Really, now?
Nicely done with this vid! I’m a huge fan of the Teen Beach Party genre and have been since I was a kid. Stupid thing to brag about, but I’ve seen nearly every single that has ever been made under AIP and some outside of that company.
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or the best nearest thing
The beach films were Products of the time a.i.p. did what they what were best at and owned up to it. Like the same era's pelum genre or the incoming spy, spaghetti westerns or cycle gang films. They showed the stuff that television wasn't showing. today's craze is "superhero films but are they any different than the serials of the 30's and '40s?
"Where the Boys Are" is surprisingly solid.
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I would give anything to go back to those day's watching these movies at the drive-in
How about a Beach Movie entitled 'How to Stuff an Invisible Ghost into a Wild Bikini'?
Yes! Bring back the glorious campy teen film!
"It's not evil. It's just Hollywood."
I can't help but find that comment incredibly ironic in a post-Weinstein world.
Hollywood had its fair share of scandals prior to October 2017, and will do so again. It's a simultaneously inefficient and profit-orientated industry, that cynically exploits people's aspirations and sexual desires, while also creating some of the most moving art of the past century. Hollywood is amoral, but not neccesarily immoral.
neonatalpenguin Yeah, that's a good way of putting it.
Yeah good thing Hollywood is the only industry that has a sex abuse problem.
It’s Chinatown.
+Brie Russell lol.
would you make a video about marlon brando or james dean please? that would be great and a good thing to talk about. Thank you
I remember a Vincent Price movie called Doctor Goldfoot and the bikini machine.
Interestingly enough I never cared about teen films too much. At the age of 13, 14 I was watching a lot of Horror because it was edgier then your normal Transformers. But I always loved a serious movie that is not too horrory. Like AI the Artificial Intelligence, or Blade Runner.
7:52 Thank you
Curious as how much money the studios made when these films became staples of TV programming in later years. They had to have been pretty steady earners. Observation: even when I was a kid, those beach "teens" looked old enough to be my parents =D
My favorite was "Weekend At Party Pier".
I enjoyed this. Would be cool to see more Dead Genre entries!
He mighta forgot to mention Back to the Beach in 1987.
Wow I seriously need to know what Film editing program Royal Ocean uses.
Nothing special. Just Adobe Premiere with a little bit of Photoshop and Audition. The programs themselves are never that important - how you use the tools that they offer is all that matters.
Never realized how accurate if a parody Teen Beach Movie was
Everybody had matching towels.
Fantastic video
Great video one of your best so far ✌️
I thought the thumbnail was from the videoclip "Mein Land" from Rammstein, I just saw it yesterday and replayed it a few times
😮Oh, now i get what "Psycho Beach Party" was all about.
Love all the Beach Party movies!
I can’t tell if that last line was supposed to be as ominous as I’m taking it.
So your telling me disney actually did pretty well when they made Teen Beach Movie
thank you for the effort and the sharing. still fun. thumbs up.
"Because it's not evil. It's just Hollywood." Someone needs to tell Alex Proyas that.
I gotta say your videos are always excellent, I'm very glad I have discovered your channel. Yet I need to point out that whenever you start speaking faster than usual it's quite difficult for me to understand what you are saying, especially since English isn't my native language.
Thanks for this! This helped me with a little video essay of my own. :)
omg you working on details so hard! impressive, I totally agree that there are always a bad boy in a beach party genre. some Mafiozo who is after a beutiful girl on a movie so there is some catchy snaps for an each a girl and a boy. as you filtered it at 2:28 by the why thanks nordvpn for sponsoring you, because it is a great content you've been doing here.
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Why was Super Mario Bros. on youre screen while you where laughing abouth The Gost in The Invisible Bakini?
I love beach movies!
I enjoy visiting filming and tv locations , I know Gidget was filmed, at Leo Carrillo's Beach, are the concrete steps sill there? Were are the rest of the beaches , I know some were at Paradise Cove and Redondo Beach , are any of the building's from Bikini Beach , still standing?
That was fascinating. Thank you.
6:36 To the point of being an MST3K episode
So I've gotta watch one of these films, but I can't imagine I'm ever going to watch more than one. So if you were to recommend 1 definitive beach party film, which would it be?
Bikini Beach 1964. That’s one I consider the best of the bunch. It satirizes the British Invasion hilariously as Frankie Avalon does a excellent performance as The Potato Bug. Racial integration comes to the beach party universe with not just Little Stevie Wonder which is expected; but also with an actual integrated band, The Pyramids which wasn’t. They were an actual band who charted with a song called Penetration. What grabbed me was somewhere in this White universe White & Black could socialize to make a band.
@@motherlandone6300 It's so weird to get a reply a year after I made this comment. But I am SOLD. Will watch soon.
Arkoff formula at its finest! 😎
What used to be Kitsch n its time, it has the possibility of becoming art.
You mentioned beach blanket bingo and didn't talk about buster Keaton!!??
what film is the scene at 1:23 minutes w/ a band?
big Wednesday is my personal favorite
What song starts at 8:10?
The Beach Party movies are great, but Ski Party is better. It contains a big James Brown cameo and the plot revolves around Frankie Avalon pretending to be a woman.