Love Story on Arte: Why Are Harvard Students Being Forced to See the Movie?

Romeo with sexy curls (Ryan O’Neill), Juliet with long brown hair (Allie McGrew) suffering from an incurable disease, Frances Lye’s melancholy piano… Love Story, pure tune signed by Arthur Hiller, produced on a low budget by Paramount.

But a huge success at the worldwide box office, grossing over $106 million. In fact, it is even the first film to cross the symbolic threshold of $100 million at the box office. The tragic story of cursed lovers in France will attract more than 5.5 million viewers.

Erich Segal is behind this love story gone wrong. Stakeholder isn’t exactly in uncharted territory to plant his story frame. He was educated at Harvard College and Harvard University, where he received a doctorate in comparative literature. He became a professor of classics at the same university, then taught at Yale and Princeton universities.

Screenwriter of the film Love story Therefore, he created his script at the request of Paramount. Originally designed as a simple promotional tool, released – still at the request of the studio – on Valentine’s Day, the novel was a bestseller even before the film was released.

Campus mayhem and cool hustle

Filming on campus seems to have caused some problems. In fact, it was the production of this film that prompted the university to ban almost all commercial filming due to disruption and damage to students, including fake snow that killed several trees. After only one week of filming on location, the production was forced to pack up.

Still, the university still knows what it deserves for the film’s notoriety, even if it didn’t wait for its release to become world-famous. Thus, every year, all students entering the first year are “forced” to attend a screening of the film, which is organized on site. Crimson Key Society; An association made up of university students and responsible for welcoming both new students and visitors.

A hilariously tense projection like the Rocky Horror Picture Show sessions, as reported elsewhere Article from the New York Times in August 2010. Still, Crimson Key members take their role in this ritual that has become inevitable, to the point of pushing immersion as far as possible by dressing in 70s fashion, or even like certain characters in the movie; Each has a role. And in the vast majority of cases, newcomers have absolutely no idea what to expect. It should still be a fun experience!