A Snowball is a drink made with Advocaat. Generally drunk at Christmas. I think it is also associated with the upper middle classes.
I agree with everything that has gone before. A spoilt girl, never wanted for anything. Her head had been turned by a boy but her father doesn't approve. Her mum doesn't care and is on Valium possibly due to the psychological pressures placed on her by her overbearing husband.
She compares her love for this guy to the love of her parents and finds that they are very similar. Her father has showered her with gifts. The jewels might not actually be imitations but they are a representaion of a kind of love that money can buy rather than real attention.
She can sort of tell that the guys love for her is also an imiatation. He sees other girls but keeps her sweet and she doesn;t care because she feels so good. He wants her phyiscally and she is concerned so she asks her mum for advice. She responds by recommending Valium and telling her that she needs to experiement to learn (possibly a relfecttion of her own experiences).
All in all, a story of how inexperience in love can cause young people to do stupid things. A little slice of life almost as if Elvis floated above a town and took the lid off an average house. Describing a cliche of suburbia. Girl meets boy and pins all her hopes on him. It's going to last forever and so she's prepared to give him everything. Father tries to warn her but his anger overcomes him and he doesn;t get through to her.
It happens everyday in a million households the world over.
Costello is great at making something so mundane in to such a beautiful story. He has written a few songs that show an uncanny insight into the mind of a teenage girl.
P.S. I love the video where Elvis plays the stern headmaster. Whilst the story of the video shows part of what I think this is about, I believe that there is a little more to it. The loss of innocence.
@betch252 :Advocaat. kool...that's the stuff Delbert Grady's ghost "spills" on Jack Nicholson's ax-crazy character in Kubrick's 'Shining." Some folks insist the later mini-series is more true to the book. Maybe, but—for some of us—that's only one more reason Kubrick's version is great.
@betch252 :Advocaat. kool...that's the stuff Delbert Grady's ghost "spills" on Jack Nicholson's ax-crazy character in Kubrick's 'Shining." Some folks insist the later mini-series is more true to the book. Maybe, but—for some of us—that's only one more reason Kubrick's version is great.
It's hardly unusual for mediocre books to be adapted into great film. "Adapted"; i.e. not to slavishly mimic. Films are cinematic; books probably shouldn't be (though A Prayer for Owen Meany "reads like a better film" than the damn'ed Simon Birch). I adored Gene Wilder--and yeah, the memes are fine--but I cannot...
It's hardly unusual for mediocre books to be adapted into great film. "Adapted"; i.e. not to slavishly mimic. Films are cinematic; books probably shouldn't be (though A Prayer for Owen Meany "reads like a better film" than the damn'ed Simon Birch). I adored Gene Wilder--and yeah, the memes are fine--but I cannot enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory unless I read it. Would the film have been better had Dahl micromanaged it? Hell no. A bit tangential? Yeah; mea maxima culpa
A Snowball is a drink made with Advocaat. Generally drunk at Christmas. I think it is also associated with the upper middle classes.
I agree with everything that has gone before. A spoilt girl, never wanted for anything. Her head had been turned by a boy but her father doesn't approve. Her mum doesn't care and is on Valium possibly due to the psychological pressures placed on her by her overbearing husband.
She compares her love for this guy to the love of her parents and finds that they are very similar. Her father has showered her with gifts. The jewels might not actually be imitations but they are a representaion of a kind of love that money can buy rather than real attention.
She can sort of tell that the guys love for her is also an imiatation. He sees other girls but keeps her sweet and she doesn;t care because she feels so good. He wants her phyiscally and she is concerned so she asks her mum for advice. She responds by recommending Valium and telling her that she needs to experiement to learn (possibly a relfecttion of her own experiences).
All in all, a story of how inexperience in love can cause young people to do stupid things. A little slice of life almost as if Elvis floated above a town and took the lid off an average house. Describing a cliche of suburbia. Girl meets boy and pins all her hopes on him. It's going to last forever and so she's prepared to give him everything. Father tries to warn her but his anger overcomes him and he doesn;t get through to her.
It happens everyday in a million households the world over.
Costello is great at making something so mundane in to such a beautiful story. He has written a few songs that show an uncanny insight into the mind of a teenage girl.
P.S. I love the video where Elvis plays the stern headmaster. Whilst the story of the video shows part of what I think this is about, I believe that there is a little more to it. The loss of innocence.
@betch252 :Advocaat. kool...that's the stuff Delbert Grady's ghost "spills" on Jack Nicholson's ax-crazy character in Kubrick's 'Shining." Some folks insist the later mini-series is more true to the book. Maybe, but—for some of us—that's only one more reason Kubrick's version is great.
@betch252 :Advocaat. kool...that's the stuff Delbert Grady's ghost "spills" on Jack Nicholson's ax-crazy character in Kubrick's 'Shining." Some folks insist the later mini-series is more true to the book. Maybe, but—for some of us—that's only one more reason Kubrick's version is great.
It's hardly unusual for mediocre books to be adapted into great film. "Adapted"; i.e. not to slavishly mimic. Films are cinematic; books probably shouldn't be (though A Prayer for Owen Meany "reads like a better film" than the damn'ed Simon Birch). I adored Gene Wilder--and yeah, the memes are fine--but I cannot...
It's hardly unusual for mediocre books to be adapted into great film. "Adapted"; i.e. not to slavishly mimic. Films are cinematic; books probably shouldn't be (though A Prayer for Owen Meany "reads like a better film" than the damn'ed Simon Birch). I adored Gene Wilder--and yeah, the memes are fine--but I cannot enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory unless I read it. Would the film have been better had Dahl micromanaged it? Hell no. A bit tangential? Yeah; mea maxima culpa
(are ghosts, uh...built to spill?)