Can any oldfags explain the massive cultural success of this film and its associated soundtrack? It seems to be one of the biggest cultural events of the entire 1990's, but without the level of nostalgia you'd expect from such a huge event. Among other things, it was the #2 highest-grossing film of 1992 both globally and in the US, behind only Aladdin. The soundtrack is the best-selling album of the entire 1990's globally. Its lead single (Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You') was the world and the US's biggest hit of 1993, and the decade's third-biggest hit in both categories behind Elton John's Candle in the Wind 1997 for Princess Diana and The Macarena. How did it get so huge, and why isn't it really remembered as such?
>>217202587it was proto-titanic. Solid story that features romance for the chicks and has a very memorable soundtrack.Although Costner was REALLY far from a heartthrob at this point in his career. a better male lead (Mel Gibson for example) would have launched this flick to the stratosphere.
>>217202587If TayTay wanted to emulate this movie's success which actor should she pick as her love interest
>>217202757AI'd Danny DeVito
>>217202674Look at those huge monkey paws... It's a miracle this movie was even a hit.
>>217202757Walton goggins
>>217202757Isn't she a bit too old for that? Whitney was 29 during filming. She'd be closer to Costner's age (37).
>>217202674https://youtu.be/VOzIO8VWFiY?si=wiM5Ow1YSa9HNX31&t=288i joust love this scene, Whitney gives him this look like she is kinda smitten at first glance and then switch to Costner standing there with his doughy face, ill-fitting clothes and hair that looks like he cut it himself.
>>2172025871992 was a very boring year for movies. We had exactly 0 (ZERO) Marvel movies that year.
>>217202587>Can any oldfags explainNot everything good or popular is measured with constant nostalgiafagging about it. In fact most "nostalgia" you see today isn't even that. Its either younger generations finding out about something older than they are that was popular, or its some company trying to push it to get another bite of the apple decades later. The film was good. It hit all the right buttons for a lot of people. Its a romance movie though, they don't tend to get talked about much in comparison to other genres. When they do its usually because one is so bad or cringe worthy
>>217202587WMBF was always more popularretards here who say BMWF is popular clearly know nothing about cinema. The Bodyguard was one of the biggest movies of the year and that was in the 90s the so called "based decade"
>>217202587>why isn't it really remembered as such?kevin costner's eulogy for whitney houston has millions of views on youtube. whenever kevin costner comes on a talk show, they ask him about whiteney houston.it's kind of forever cemented on people's conscious at this point.
>>217202757Travis Kelce
>>217202587When people die embarrassing shameful deaths, their works get largely erased from the pop culture zeitgeist. See also Robin Williams.
>>217202978This is part of it. People often don't want to bring up how someone went, and so they avoid bringing them up altogether to avoid it. In Whitney Houstons case is especially true considering her daughter died almost the exact same way she did
>>217202674i think by the early 90s, Mel had gone mad and he feels too feral to pull off Kevin costner's character which is very measured.Mel Gibson in the 80s you see he's very bright eyed, young and gorgeous. i think he didn't like that about himself cause he quickly become very haggard. it fits his personality i guess but for a romance movie, his 'conspiracy theory' with julia roberts and 'what women want' fit him better than straight romance that is body guard.
>>217202833She is massively popular and still considered by many to be good looking and that's all it matters
>>217202978This is bullshit, Freddie Mercury died of aids and his biopic made $900m+.
>>217202587The female lead gets to be protected and railed by the macho man with a gun and be the big star everyone orbits around. Women don't go to the movies like men do but when Hollywood gets their attention like this they turn up in droves.
>>217203048>In Whitney Houstons case is especially true considering her daughter died almost the exact same way she didwhy do drinkies keep using bath tubs and hot tubs? Jesus you'd think they'd see a pattern?
>>217202587Whitney Houston was a beautiful brloved popular mega star who was in danger (both in and out of the movie)but didnt make women jealous Costner had the everyman bad ass thing going fir him So every guy could put themselves in that role and women I woukd guess see him as attainable. The nice guy who can kick ass be loyal care about her and always be there and the "lowering herself to him and diamond in the rough thing. And that fucking song was played EveryDamnedDayFOR MONTHSIt was the "let ot go" for normal functional heterosexual women that every chick and fag who thought they could sing would belt at the top of their lungs all of the damned time. And WMBF was very under represented.
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>>217202587whitney houston was very popular and one of americas sweethearts (this was before marrying bobby brown and becoming a crackhead). Kevin costner was a big star at the time I think he had won an oscar for dancing with wolves, or at least the film did. He was the tom cruise of the era, just a bankable star that had the midas touch at the time. good script didnt hurt. The stars just aligned
I forgot to add>why isn't it really remembered as such?likely because of whitneys huge fall from grace. Funny thing is it is a common thing with negros. The jewish press always wants to present some negro as le wholesome negro next door just like you! But they often more times than not do some real shady shit that ruins the image. (Bill Cosby comes to mind). Also Costner had a string of flops with waterworld and the postman etc and never was in another blockbuster that I can remember so it just faded into the memory hole
>>217203171Grim.
>>217202674why would mel breed with a pack of niggers
>>217202849I met that black dude (her manager) at hard rock hotel bar in LA once.
>>217203227The Jewish press and rich whites destroyed bill Cosby because the uppity negro was in talks to buy ABC. So they murdered his son and proceeded to rehire the whores they paid to help him indulge in his wierdo get women fucked up to sleep with them thing. Even hired whores who werent even in the same room to pretend they were "victims" too. Hell Whitney Houston was burned to the ground because she was blowing up behind the scenes and even had people help destroy her. Then she mysteriously died at a party with a house filled with people. Her daughter died(was murdered) the same way. Its wsmas a message.
>>217203135Ah, the noble disease. 'Tis but a mark of the aristocrat.
>>217203063I think he just drank a lot
>>217202587it played into the vestiges of the chivalrous ideal before 60% of women outed themselves as lazy whores.Men liked defending womenWomen liked men who sacrifice everything regardless of how obliviously stupid women behave
>>217202587>Without the nostalgiaBecause it was overhyped and the song played nonstop for a year. I used to listen to the radio in 1993, Q102, a hardcore rap station in Philly at the time. Playing my Turbografx and listening to Dr. Dre (It was a phase). Well, every 3rd son was, no lie, that fucking Whitney Houston Bodyguard song. It was unbearable. On a RAP station, of all things.I think people from my generation who lived it just got very tired of it and shut it out because of how shoved down our faces it was. Or probably they realized as they got older that it was jewish propaganda to make interracial coupling more mainstream.
>>217202587>Kevin Costner was a big Hollywood star>Whitney Houston was a hugely successful singer and a decent enough actress>main song was good>crowd-pleasing romance storyWhat's to explain? The only reason it's not widely remembered is because there were too many good movies back then and we were spoiled for choice.
>>217203350It's still like that, if you're the 1%. It's just shit for the new plebs who thought they were nobles because the economy was good for like 50 years.
>>217203063>siggy's jaw is more square and masculine than prime mel'sgrim
>>217203308It's possible. A lot of people have pointed out how odd it was that Craig Mack died so quickly and so young after reforming his life and spreading a different message from his early days.
>>217203428You do know thats saying more about weaver then Gibson right?Hollywood really has a thing for women with square jaws.
>>217202587Moms went crazy with it, and moms back then were a big chunk of the market.
>>217202587>one of the biggest cultural events of the entire 1990's,what?it wasn't at all
>>217203293>I met that black dude (her manager) at hard rock hotel bar in LA once.nobody asked
>>217203930In monetary terms (the most objective we have), it certainly was.
>>217202587We weren't CULTURE STUCK back then so any moderately successful media had a chance to be a longstanding meme/pop-culture reference.
>>217204002>In monetary termsBritney Spears was bigger than Elvis, then, tooYou zoomies have no fucking idea what happened culturally before you were born (let alone the current age).The Bodyguard wasn't some blockbuster hit. The song from the movie WASWHO have you talked to that lived in the 90s that told you The Bodyguard was the greatest movie they ever saw or that it was a movie to watch?NO ONEI'm 50 and was in several WMBF relationships when this joke of a movie came out. Trust me, no one regarded it as anything more than a token slop for Whitney
>>217203957yah I didnt so why is your dick sucker open right now?
>>217202587It's interesting because when it comes to the "music movie" people almost always remember the music and not the movie.>Elvis' filmography>Hard Days Night>Prince's trilogy>Spice WorldYou'd think there would be one successful at bridging the gap between the two art forms.
>>217203135Funny because I remember there being a big fuss about the Chinese edit of the film cutting out any and all mentions of his homosexuality
>>217202587Isn't it just the song? I'm an oldfag and I've never heard anyone discuss the movie. I don't remember ever catching it on tv, either.
>>217202587the song was bigger than the movie, the movie may as well not exist
>>217204796the movie made a shit ton of money. and with the VHS sales, i can't even imagine how much kevin costner got. probablby all paid for his future projects like water world and and some and still money left over.
>>217204896It was one out of a million thrillers made in the 1990s and the song is the only reason the public could tell it apart from the rest
