Monday, July 28, 2008

One Crazy Question

Surfing channels, I landed on 1959's boy-meets-girl beach classic, Gidget.

Familiar fluff, hokey happily ever after stuff. With sappy music.

Except this forgotten scene:

As war vet turned surf-bum Kahoona walks with Gidget along the shoreline, Gidget asks this "one crazy question" about his life style:
"What if you could go back ... what if something happened ... and you could choose all over again?"
Oh. My. God. Gidget food for 2008 thought.
Real friends ask tough questions. Offer hope, alternate endings.

That's not fluff. Or hokey. Nor slightly sappy.

Just classic.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm....that's a good one.