Daniel Stern On BREAKING AWAY
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Daniel Stern talks about the film BREAKING AWAY which made the AFI 10 Top 10 in the Sports Movies category in 2008.
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It’s a coming-of-age story. When Dave experience malice at the hands of those he idolized and goes home and cries on his father. That’s the pivotal scene for me.
Same here. ❤
Free on UA-cam now. Fantastic.
Everybody cheats. I just didn't know it.
They shattered his whole identity, his hope even his belief system and he is forced to accept who he is a cutter, but also now having this undeniable talent that he associates with part of his broken dream still intact and that he has to re-embrace. Phenomenal character arc.
@@John-dw6ruwell, now you know.
Dennis Quaid was great in this film. I love how his policeman brother is fired up rooting for him when he finally gets in the bike. The last 5 minutes of this movie are incredible.
They're going to keep calling us Cutters.... to them, it's a dirty word. To me, it's just something else I never got a chance to be.
It is still the best bicycling movie ever made. The dialogue is just amazing.
"Hey there. What's your major?"
"Well, we're a little disturbed by developments in the Middle East..."
"Don't forget your toothbrush! You're still in your cavity-prone years. "
"I sure miss playing basketball. I got depressed as hell when my athlete's foot and jock itch went away. "
I love Breaking Away. Daniel Stern's a big part of that.
And during the celebration, when everyone is hugging someone, and his character realizes that he has no one to hug.
I was eight years old when my proud Italian father took me to see this movie in the summer of '79. We got the biggest kick out of it and I remember my Dad buying it on VHS a year or two later. I still quote lines from it to this day.
My wife rescued a five month old kitten for me ten years ago when we were still dating and I was living alone in my apartment. Of course I named her Felini.
Loved reading this. It is a great name for a cat.
His name is Jake.
his name is Jake... Fellini, liguini.... there'll be no more ini in this house.. Goddammit, I want American food, I want French fries !!
My dad also showed me this movie however i was about 11. Still one of my favourite to this day
Lovely story 😊🙏
Without a doubt this is one of the best movies i have ever seen. Speaking as a 60 year old in 2020 who has seen alot of movies lol
Stern's little bit at the quarry when he said. It was right about here. That's classic
I was a paid extra in the movie! Bike team coach. Had dinner with Hart Bochner one night in my fraternity. Ran into Dennis Quaid one night in a a Bloomington restaurant. Lots of fun and a great experience in how movies were made back then.
Neat.
cool. Post more recollections!
I had a roommate when I lived in Texas who was in the scene when Dennis Quaid ran over the frisbee. He was an IU senior when they filmed the movie. He is on the screen for maybe one second. He is one of the guys that rushes toward the street when the frisbee is getting run over.
I saw Breaking Away at the cinemas with my parents when I was 12. It's still one of my fave films, 40 years later.
My favorite movie of all time.
Paul Dooley - "When I was young, I was tired and miserable." Saw this movie as a kid and again recently - the bicycles and equipment sure have changed.
Saw this movie when I graduated from Teacher's College in December 1979 - it was like the universe was talking straight to me. Uncanny similarities with what was going on in my life as 21 year old facing up to the wide world ... still a great film.
I enjoy hearing about the movie from the cast's perspective. Daniel Stern is an amazing actor with a great voice. Loved The Wonder Years too. Breaking Away is an all around great film. Thanks, man!
Daniel also voiced "Dilbert" in the animated series. The series wasn't great (not bad either), a bit too "dark" (so is the comic at times, but you notice it less there). Daniel's voicing of Dilbert though was top-notch, really seemed like the "real" character that you might imagine.
one of my all time favorite movies
just as good today as it was in 1979. I want some American food. Make me some french fries.
Breaking away is an allegory but it is still also the best cycling movie ever made.
Just watched this the other day. Masterful scene editing! Perfect timing.
still here in bloomington the car wash owner .it was a fun time with all you movie star's but my name is woody hueston///
That's very cool Woody - I'm a big fan of the movie, 40 years later! I even visited Bloomington in 2006 to see where it all came from. I managed to find Dave's house and the football stadium but that was about it. I was advised not to go the quarries. Cheers from Australia
I love the movie and I know exactly where your lot is just south of downtown!!! Stay well Woody and God bless. A big fan from Toledo OH
That's so cool. It'll be nice for me to put a face and a name to the carwash next time I watch it.
"whats your major"?...This movie helped me grow up.,,classic
I always feel so sad that Cyril had no one to congratulate him at the end of the race. Seeing his face was just heartbreaking. I absolutely loved Daniel Stern in The Milagro Beanfield War!
Great observation. I went back and watched that scene again. Kudos to you. And thanks for pointing it out.
Tears of joy every time I watch this film. A well-deserved Oscar for original screenplay to Steve Tesich, who gave Daniel Stern's character Cyril some of the best lines in the movie. The cop asks the boys how they're doing and Cyril replies, " Well, we're a little disturbed by developments in the Middle East, but other than that..." For "Breaking Away" and "Diner" Mr. Stern will always be an Oscar winner in our house … and let's throw in an Emmy for his moving narration on "The Wonder Years."
Check out Daniel Stern in the Milagro Beanfield War, another simple, tastefully done film with a great contributing role for Daniel. Directed by Robert Redford and filmed in New Mexico. Like Breaking Away, its older but endures.
@blkchk Mine too. I watch it like once/year. Love how he idolizes the Cinzano team so much he wants to be Italian and then when the cheat, his naivete is changed to disillusionment. Also, the way the four friends were all so different and unique. And subplot of Mike who was the great athlete and QB but didn't get the chance to go to the university in this college town and he said every year a new kid will be QB of the team and he just gets a year older... Such a good story.
At one point in Breaking Away, Cyril (Stern's character) says to Dave, "Hey, I know our lives are about to go in very different directions. You're gonna move on to bigger and better worlds, and I'm probably gonna stay stuck in a dead-end existence here in this nowhere town. But you gave me a moment today, a feeling of triumph, that I really NEVER thought I'd get to experience. So, whatever happens to us, or doesn't happen to us, in the future, I want you to know how much that means to me." The amazing thing is, he doesn't actually VERBALIZE any of that - he just gives him a little wave, from a medium distance away. But we've grown to know the characters so intimately by that point that the subtext couldn't possibly be more clear. Breaking Away is a film for the ages.
It was very much a sleeper hit. I saw it as a double feature with Starting Over (a Butt Reynolds film) no one in our group had heard of either film. Over several weeks and months it became a hit. I sure talked it up to everyone I knew. Years later when in college of U found out someone hadn't seen it I would rent the VHS tape and a VCR. I was getting real life reactions, before it was a UA-cam thing.
"No I don't feel lucky to be alive, I feel lucky I'm not dead...there's a difference!"
My favorite line “Evelyn we’re not Italian”
And his cat, Jake, gets renamed Fellini. It just irritates him to no end.
This is an awesome movie.
He's Playing That Dam ITIE Music Again
Bongiorno papa
I'M YOUR GODDAMNED FATHER!
Bongiorno mama
and she's your goddamned mother.
Sports movie? Meh - Breaking Away, from your childhood, from your past, from your comfort zone, from complacency, from the things holding you back. And Paul Dooley gives the performance of a lifetime!!! Growing up in Indiana, he was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. I was hoping for more of this in Sixteen Candles.
We're expecting!
I didn't know people your age could...
Your next word may be your last.
Oh it had HUGE laughs in it! Hilarious!! Refund!? REFUND?!? REEFUND????!!!
Best compliment about the movie was when I read somewhere (can't remember where) that they played this on a long airline flight and the poster had never seen it prior and described the movie as an absolute gem.
Very inspiring film
I just watched this with my 4 nephews (aged 9 to 17) and they all loved it. Several laughs and lessons learned. There are so many great topics brought up in this movie that are very relevant today - discrimination/prejudice, ethics, classism, determination, idol worship/"never meet your heroes"... Plus it's fun to point out Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher and Jackie Earle Haley as adults in so many other movies. Growing old is something kids rarely think about....
And, of course, being concerned about events in the Middle East.
That was Woody Houston who said that in the movie. He was a local resident picked for that part. He worked for Bloomington Parks and Rec, and was a regular at the "Port Hole" on Lake Lemon. I've lived in Bloomington/Ellettsville since 1972.
I had nightmares all night that everybody I ever sold a car to came back and asked for a refund. And you were there handing out the checks. One for you and one for you and...
The father was the central character in this movie. How the son behavior affected him, his career at the quarries, his struggle with middle age. The battle of personality between him and his son- "Zuchinni, linguini, fettucine- that's "ity" food. I don't want any "ity " in this house. "That my cat-his name is Jake". He and the wife -perfectly cast.
Refund? Refund!? Refund!!?!
@@andrewfurst5711 Yeah -that was great.
I remember thinking that it was sorta weird to be really liking and even identifying with a middle aged man/ father That Guy was Great Loved this movie
@@toecutter1015 I was in my 20's when I first saw the movie so I did'nt focus so much on the Father. Much later ( and after many years of struggling) did I identify with the Father. Yes -he was likeable. He slowly reveals that he has a BIG hard under there. Ya know -I'm gonna watch this movie tonight . Thanks for your reply.
@@bellavia5 Yeah I remember being sorta confused identifying with him and thinking that he was the worlds coolest Dad and what he said about Cutters and how people don’t know what it’s about ( cannot remember exact words I’m going to watch it and I’m really glad that it’s free) how cutting is a Skill and those who don’t or can’t do it have no idea and how he walks around the universites and looks at the cuts that the college kids are clueless about ( level of skill and knowledge) I understood somehow even then that I Was a Cutter but had No idea why I believed that, Anyway many years later on a really high profile job (NYS capital) I worked with a real deal English Master and he kept telling me how I was the best mason on the job and I thought Why does he keep saying that when all I’m doing is Cutting granite and many years later after watching English videos found out that a Mason is a Cutter and Damn did I feel stupid You see, we here in the backwards USA don’t know that Some of us think that a mason is someone who floats concrete or lays block whatever But a mason is a Cutter So those Cutters are actually masons! And every single masonry job I’ve ever been on where I had to cut anything I always thought of Breaking Away and that Dad speaking about how folks don’t know that cutting is a Skill and according to the English real masons, it’s top of the heap and it is because there’s really relatively few who are any good at it! A brick mason ( for example) can lay anything and cut anything
"Refund?!?" - best part is when he wakes up in the hospital saying that.
You were superb in it Daniel. Cyril's character made it ok to be who he was. You had the Jock Mike, the short guy with the super tough shell, Moocher, and the actual bike rider Dave living in a sort of fantasy Italiano, Cinzano bike team world with a caring family. They protected one another. It was a great lesson, sort of movie of life, and we were all relating to that in the moment. We understood it. We all got it and could relate. What an incredible movie.
As much as I love cycling, Stern is right.
A great movie that sort of paralleled my life. I only raced in one bicycle race but I came in third place. I can remember the other racers were making fun of my 35 pound ten speed while they all had lightweight European racing bikes with tubular tires. I would have raced more often but I couldn't afford the expensive bicycle required to actually win a race.
One of the great movies of all time - very underrated
Every actor was spot on with Thier character
Lots of cyclists in the UK went to see it when it came out because of the cycling connection
"Everybody cheats. I just didn't know." Dave Stoller/Dennis Christopher. Greatest two movie lines ever.
Then you expect his father to say, “No son, some people are honest.” But instead he says, “Well, now you know.”
I never thought of it as a sports movie - any more than 'Friday Night Lights' TV show was a football movie!
But this was the story of my life, without the Italian fetish... A favorite character movie!
(at 13, I fell into bike racing via an Austrian classmate's older brother. A few years before 10-speeds were generally sold in the States. All the bikes came from Europe back then. My HS even let me bring my rollers into school and ride, instead of take gym class. My fascination mostly ended at 16, when I got my first car - a racy TR3!)
In 2002 I was in Bloomington, IN., for work and retraced as much of the movie that I could, it was really fun.
Cyril, all alone, looking for someone to hug... 40+ years late, still get choked up just think about that scene. GREAT movie, great cast, but Paul Dooley and Daniel Stern, the movies a drama instead of a comedy, they were both equally unbelievable
Breaking Away is not a sports movie in the least bit. Anyone who thinks it is did not see the same film I did and that so many have gown to cherish.
I loved this movie and each of the characters. My husband went to IU so that made it very special.
Loved it! Watched it with my grandparents all throughout the 90s as a kid.
The unnecessary dialog is what makes this movie outstanding. For example as they're walking up to the quarry in the opening credits. You learn so much about them in a scene that could be overlooked by most as insignificant.
REFUND had us laughing and rewinding the Beta max video tape. Great movie to grow up too for Cycle life.
Was in this movie as an extra in many scenes. My biggest part was in the Student Leader scene in the President's office. I am directly beside Hart Bochner in the green suit ! Many other memories and scenes. I was dating the Casting coordinators daughter and I was suppose to get a speaking role in her next movie Brubaker as a prisoner friend to Robert Redford. Unfortunately we broke up and I was on out of the movie business lol. My car is right in the middle of the scene downtown in front of the pizza place. It's a 1972 green Buick LeSabre. Great memories. Write me if you wanna know more nostalgia
Awesome!!!!!
Cutters go!
I was there in summer session at IU during filming. I was wondering what all the camera crews around campus were at the time. I had no idea.
the heart of it is that it's about a small town kid who has a dream.
Such a great underrated actor. Wish he did more nowadays. I feel he will always best be remembered for Home Alone and City Slickers his two biggest hits but he should have had so many more.
Not only that he is a sincere, genuine person I like him. Yet to hear a bad word about him and thankfully it will never come. It is always the underrated ones who you find are good people with the exception of Keanu Reeves.
Such a cool guy!
the BEST scene is the quarry scene when dude bumps his head🤕 gnarly af
Really amazing movie
Should have won Best Picture
"That's ok Cyril I understand."
I did a lot of cycling in my day.
I partially agree that it's not strictly a sports movie. But almost all the great sports movies had great and relatable characters. Frankenheimer's "Grand Prix" is about the only great sports movie where the characters take a back seat to the sport.
"Chicks! The reason God invented bicycles."
We may plead, but we will never beg....
Epic movie!!
“He’ll end up a bum … an Italian bum.”
Paul Dooley was fucking great in that movie
@clearly WOW I did know that - I always wondered who it was - very cool !
You're not the quarterback here Mike!
Mike is *ALWAYS* the quarterback. Here, there & everywhere!
@@generalzod7959 So many great lines like it in this film.
@kermsroomy
yeah we all do -
it is like ...LIFE...
only movies are time less.
Characters, yes
"Breaking Away" is much better than "Hoosiers" [another Indiana sports underdog movie].
Sports movie? Oh right, it had cycling in it. I'm with Stern... the cycling was just an excuse to lay down the real story line about the kid who didn't quite fit the college career path, or did he?
Which character was he?
I think calling it simply a sports movie is denigrating. This is, as Roger Ebert called it, "a precious cinematic miracle."
It's the screenplay. There, that was easy. Example: And they're going to keep calling us Cutters. To them, it's a dirty word. To me, it's just something else I never got a chance to be.
It’s pretty sad when he is the better looking brother...
REFUND ?!?!? REFUND !?!?!?
I swear that was MY DAD! Love it!
@@beverlyweber4122If you don't like it , you ain't American ! Got a 10speed and rode all around town after that movie .
It was not a sports movie. Just like "Good Will Hunting" was not a movie about math/physics geniuses.
Pep?!?!?
They don’t need pep!
I need pep.
"REFUND?!"
Boy! Cyril got old!
This isnt a sports movie....? WTF!? Its one of the greatest depictions of physical over mental. So for the scorecard... anyone from Nike wanna step in here...
Yes, I purposefully said physical over mental. C'mon. Think about it here. What was Dave's obssesion? Not cycling.
I spell checked but it stands as it is. My brain wasnt perfect. Neither are y.u
REFUND!
stoners or stoney. Never was a cutter.
American fries*
dumb heredity!
I always wondered why Dennis Christopher wasn’t a big star after this movie?? What else was he ever in??
Now that old corvette would be worth So much more money even if it didn’t run at all
REFUND!!!!