{"id":8743,"date":"2009-01-02T09:43:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8743"},"modified":"2020-03-04T16:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T21:48:57","slug":"the-theory-of-electricity-and-wanting-valley-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8743","title":{"rendered":"<i>Valley Girl<\/i>: The Theory of  Electricity and Wanting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Coolidge, director of <i>Valley Girl<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wanted that feeling of love at first sight that just hits you.  Hard.  My goal in this picture was to accomplish the feelings that you have in your first love, the kind of incredible high that first love in high school gives you.  There&#8217;s nothing like it.  We all know it &#8230; I felt from old movies that the most important thing that you can do in a movie is play <i>wanting<\/i>.  It isn&#8217;t actually the <i>getting<\/i> of the person that is hot on the screen. It&#8217;s the <i>wanting<\/i>.  It&#8217;s the electricity, it&#8217;s the looks, it&#8217;s the feeling of tension, of sexual tension, the parallel-ing of emotions, that really builds feeling in a picture.  The eye contact, the kind of reflecting of each other that people do, and that the old actors from old Hollywood really knew how to do, because they couldn&#8217;t show nudity then, they couldn&#8217;t show all the things they could show today, and I wanted very much for Randy [Nic Cage] and Julie [Deborah Foreman] to really have that great desire and electricity together &#8230; This is the theory of electricity and wanting, and I loved the pull between these two.  Together they were just great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film was shot in 20 days.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"vg1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/vg1.jpg\" width=\"687\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"vg2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/vg2.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vg4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/vg4.jpg\" width=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vg5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/vg5.jpg\" width=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vg6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/vg6.jpg\" width=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vg8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/vg8.jpg\" width=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vg9.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/vg9.jpg\" width=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vg10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/vg10.jpg\" width=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Coolidge, director of Valley Girl: I wanted that feeling of love at first sight that just hits you. Hard. My goal in this picture was to accomplish the feelings that you have in your first love, the kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8743\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2596,1298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64553,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions\/64553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}