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Dear Cinephiles,

I remember seeing “The Big Chill” in 1983. The film is about a group of college roommates who get together 15 years later for a weekend following the funeral of their much-admired friend Alex who committed suicide for no apparent reason. The minister at the funeral asks, “Where did Alex’s hope go?” While at the University of Michigan in the late 60s, they had hoped to change the world by becoming activists, civil right lawyers and artists. Now they’re reconciling with how their lives have turned out. Michael who is now a reporter from People magazine describes the weekend to his editor on the phone, “I don’t know, it’s about everything: Um… suicide, despair, where did our hope go? Lost hope, that’s it, lost hope.” At the time when this movie was made, President Reagan had been touting optimism for America. Writer/director Lawrence Kasdan intended this film to be a reaction to that view.

The movie serves as a time capsule for the 80s – yet both the personal and political conflicts at the heart of the movie remain timelessly urgent. How do we reconcile our youthful aspirations and dreams with the choices and compromises we’ve made in our lives? When I first saw the film I was in college – and it served as a warning to never lose track of the dreams and hopes of my youth. As I sit writing this, I realize that thoughts of optimism and hope have been on my mind a lot. And like the characters in this movie, I have used this extended ‘weekend’ I have been given for introspection, evaluation and reconciling. That’s why I wanted to sit and watch it again.

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Kasdan’s writing and directing are warm, funny, poignant and the actors never allow the film to become sentimental. And what a cast! Glenn Close, Kevin Klein, Tom Berenger, William Hurt, Jo Beth Williams, Mary Kay Place, Jeff Goldblum, and Meg Tilly. They all have moments to shine. They were all at the beginning of their careers – and of course they all went on to incredibly successful futures. The soundtrack is probably one of the most iconic music soundtracks ever. It serves as a constant reminder of the 60s – as well as a propulsive force to ignite each scene.

My dear readers, put on “The Big Chill” and never give up hope. Remain optimistic.

Meg: “The last time I spoke with Alex, we had a fight. I yelled at him.”
Nick: “That’s probably why he killed himself… What was the argument about?”
Meg: “I told him he was wasting his life.”

Love,
Roger

The Big Chill

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Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Written by Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
Starring: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place
103 minutes

After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirtysomethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending the weekend together, reminiscing about their shared past as children of the sixties and confronting the uncertainty of their lives as adults of the eighties. Poignant and warmly humorous in equal measure, this baby boomer milestone made a star of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan and is perhaps the decade’s defining ensemble film, featuring memorable performances by Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. And with its playlist of sixties rock and R&B hits, The Big Chill all but invented the consummately curated soundtrack.

About Writer and Director Lawrence Kasdan
Born in Miami Beach, Florida and raised in West Virginia, Lawrence Kasdan attended the University of Michigan with plans to become an English teacher. He soon realized that he enjoyed writing more than teaching however, so instead, he went on to become a copywriter for an ad agency. After winning several awards for his commercials, he moved on to screenwriting, selling his first script, The Bodyguard in 1976 (although it wasn’t made into a film until 1992). His first credit came as one of the writers of the blockbuster Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Kasdan made his feature film directorial debut shortly after when he directed his screenplay, Body Heat (1981). The film was a success, and Kasdan went on to direct and co-write The Big Chill (1983). Not only was the film a box office smash, but it earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture as well as Best Screenplay.

Kasdan co-wrote the screenplay for his next film, Silverado (1985) with his brother, Mark Kasdan. Then in 1988 he co-wrote the screenplay for The Accidental Tourist, based on the best-selling novel by Anne Tyler. The film was well-received and was nominated for four Oscars. In 1991 he teamed up with his wife, Meg Kasdan, to write the script for Grand Canyon. Their teamwork earned them Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Screenplay.

He returned in 1994 with Wyatt Earp followed by the romantic comedy French Kiss (1995). Kasdan decided to try his hand at stage directing in the fall of 1995 with John Patrick Shanley’s Four Dogs & a Bone at the Geffen Playhouse, but he later returned to the big screen with the comedy Mumford (1999). He wrote and directed Dreamcatcher (2003), a horror film based on a Stephen King novel and in In 2012, and directed the film Darling Companion. Most recently, Kasdan returned to the Star Wars universe screenwriting for The Force Awakens and Solo: A Star Wars Story. (tribute.ca)

Molding the Ensemble
Before actual shooting was to begin, Kasdan wanted the cast to spend some significant time rehearsing together. As they travelled from California to Atlanta, Georgia and ultimately Beaufort, South Carolina, the actors had nearly three weeks of rehearsal time before the cameras rolled–something extremely rare for a film.

Kasdan wanted to give the cast and crew a chance to work out how they would play their scenes together and get to know each other well enough to achieve the effortless camaraderie that comes with the close long-time friendships depicted in the story. It was a strategy that all of the actors found extremely helpful in making their characters’ relationships believable. “It’s like playing on a wonderful team,” said Kevin Kline at the time, “and it’s fun being part of that team. It’s a sharing, like sharing a victory when you’ve won. There’s a beautiful exhilaration in team play, which is about as apt a parallel as I can make to this ensemble.” (imdb.com)

At one point Kasdan decided to improvise during the rehearsal period and had this to say about it: “It happened kind of spontaneously. We were working at the house and everyone was in costume and we decided it might be great if we all cooked a meal. That way they’d have to split up the tasks and approximate a group of close friends putting together a dinner. I chose to leave at that point and all I said was, ‘You should do this in character’. I left and for five hours they remained in character without any authority figure, without any director to tell them if they were behaving or reacting in the correct way according to the writer’s or director’s ideas. They had to live in those characters’ skins and instantly deal with input from each other character. It became a very intense experience and they all came out of it exhausted and drained. I’m not sure it would have developed as fully had I been there during that time. A rehearsal period goes through stages like a life cycle and we had already had three and a half weeks of rehearsal. But that happened at a crucial, crystallizing moment and it turned eight individual actors into an ensemble”. (TCM)

Nostalgia-inducing Music
While The Big Chill went on to become both a critical and box office success, it was the music that had fans buzzing the most. Kasdan loaded his film with classics, most of which had been around for fifteen years or more — an approach that was new at the time but still popular today.

Credit for the song selection goes to the film’s Music Supervisor, Meg Kasdan, who just happens to like the same music as her husband. The two knew that they wanted The Big Chill to be filled with the songs they liked best from their college days. Since Meg grew up in Detroit, it made sense that Motown artists such as The Temptations and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles would figure prominently in the mix. The songs chosen elevated the film, making even mundane scenes unforgettable: For fans of the film, it is almost impossible to hear “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” now and not think about cleaning up the dinner dishes. (medium.com)

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Other tunes in the film — such as “A Natural Woman” by Aretha Franklin; “Wouldn’t it Be Nice” by the Beach Boys; “The Weight” by The Band; “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival; “Tracks of My Tears” by Smokey Robinson; “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye; and “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum — all fit nicely into their scenes, serving as a kind of “comfort food” for Boomers. (pophistorydig.com)

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Movie Lore
The entire movie revolves around the suicide of Alex Marshall, an unseen college friend linking all the other characters together. Alex was originally in the film for one scene, but Kasdan cut it, effectively removing a young Kevin Costner from the movie except for one sequence where he lies motionless as Alex’s body is prepped for the funeral.

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Costner’s cut flashback scene is famously part of the movie’s lore because of how famous he became. There’s no known surviving copy of the scene, but luckily Jeff Goldblum has since described it for us. The scene involves the college era crew eating Thanksgiving together and Alex considering whether he can cut into a perfect, whole turkey—which Goldblum described as “poetical and metaphorical”—with a large knife. The turkey was, of course, a symbol for the untouched, unchallenged lives the young, success track kids have experienced with an added somber note echoing how we know he will end his life in the future. (mentalfloss.com)