《The Loveless (1981)》Storyline
I""ve had six years of this.I""ve had my bellyfull...Who are we fooling? We""ve tried everything, haven""t we? We""ve reasoned with him.We""ve baited him.We""ve watched him like a hawk.We""ve tried rusting him.How often have you cried? How often have I beaten him up? Scrape him out of a gutter and pump some kind of self-respect into him and back he falls, back in every time.The film ended with Sam joining his new wife and family in their Shire home ("Well, I""m back").Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With many of the same characters from the first two films.With eleven Academy Award nominations (and eleven wins): Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Picture, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects.Three highlights in this landmark film were the astounding, rapid scenery-cuts sequence when he first stepped into the film (it was one of the earliest examples of a ""movie in a movie"" or ""film within a film""), an amazing railroad stunt (that fractured Keaton""s neck, discovered years later), and an incredibly risky driver-less motorbike ride.He inexplicably expressed his sympathy: "I""m sorry your boyfriend got killed."Later after recovering and as she left the hospital, Yvonne told Alice that there were no little boys on her hospital floor, and there was no children""s ward.