The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Arthur Laurents wrote both the novel and screenplay based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee. The film was nominated for several awards and won the Academy Awards for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song for the theme song.
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The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Arthur Laurents wrote both the novel and screenplay based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee. The film was nominated for several awards and won the Academy Awards for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song for the theme song. The soundtrack album became a gold record and hit the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 while the title song became a million-selling gold single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 respectively, selling more than two million copies. Billboard named the song as the number 1 pop hit of 1974. It ranked at number six on AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Passions survey of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. The Way We were is considered one of the great romantic films. It is told partly in flashback, it is the story of Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardiner. Their differences are immense; she is a stridently vocal Marxist Jew with strong antiwar opinions, and he is a carefree White Anglo-Saxon Protestant with no particular political bent. The two meet again towards the end of World War II while Katie is working at a radio station, andHubbell, having served as a naval officer in the South Pacific, is trying to return to civilian life. They fall in love despite the differences in their backgrounds and temperaments.
After the birth of their child, Katie and Hub Bell decide to part, as she finally understands he is not the man she idealized when falling in love with him and he always will choose the easiest way out, whether it is cheating in his marriage or writing predictable stories for sitcoms. As the Hollywood blacklist grows and McCarthyism begins to encroach on their lives, Katie’s political activism resurfaces, jeopardizing Hubbell’s position and reputation. Their past is missing, and all the two share is what they once had together, the memory of the way they were together, and the new cause behind the bomb for which they now share the name Ban the bomb. In 1937, while an undergraduate at Cornell, Katie resigned, but now she is agitating for the agitating cause for which she is now an agitating flyer, now for the Bomb. In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and finished at number eight on the American Film Institute’s 100 years.. 100 Songs list of top tunes inAmerican cinema in 2004. It also was included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hubbell breaks it off with Katie, but soon agrees to work things out, at least for a time. He shows no intention of meeting Katie’s new husband, implying that he has not been a part of her life in the past, nor does he plan to be in her future in the future.
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