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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 428452" data-attributes="member: 22">It&#039;s taken me years and years, but I finally got around to watching No Down Payment (1957), the &quot;trashy&quot; counterpart to the more &quot;arty&quot; Scenes from a Marriage (1974) which, we have been led to believe, were combined to form the basis of Knots Landing. (MIchael Filerman: &quot;David wanted to make art, I wanted to make trash and together we made television.&quot;)Two major revelations: NDP is genuinely great in its own right, and its influence on Knots feels almost blatant at times. There are a couple of backyard get-togethers in the movie that strongly foreshadow the one in the pilot welcoming Gary and Val to the neighbourhood, and the more boozy one in Season 2 where Richard openly flirts with Abby.Tony Randall simply is Richard Avery (even if he&#039;s the one selling cars in this instance). In fact, everyone in the movie shares some of Richard&#039;s anxiety about their social and economic status. Barbara Flamingo Road Rush is Karen Fairgate with added religion married to Pat Batman Hingle who shares Sid&#039;s fundamental decency and kindness, while Joanne Woodward is especially good as a kinda-sorta Val, again from Tennessee, but as if Danny Waleska were the childhood sweetheart that she&#039;d moved to the Californian suburbs with after a rocky start at married life.[MEDIA=youtube]WJbh1-4z9rs[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 428452, member: 22"] It's taken me years and years, but I finally got around to watching [I]No Down Payment[/I] (1957), the "trashy" counterpart to the more "arty" [I]Scenes from a Marriage[/I] (1974) which, we have been led to believe, were combined to form the basis of [I]Knots Landing[/I]. (MIchael Filerman: "David wanted to make art, I wanted to make trash and together we made television.") Two major revelations: [I]NDP[/I] is genuinely great in its own right, and its influence on [I]Knots[/I] feels almost blatant at times. There are a couple of backyard get-togethers in the movie that strongly foreshadow the one in the pilot welcoming Gary and Val to the neighbourhood, and the more boozy one in Season 2 where Richard openly flirts with Abby. Tony Randall simply [I]is [/I]Richard Avery (even if he's the one selling cars in this instance). In fact, everyone in the movie shares some of Richard's anxiety about their social and economic status. Barbara [I]Flamingo Road[/I] Rush is Karen Fairgate with added religion married to Pat [I]Batman[/I] Hingle who shares Sid's fundamental decency and kindness, while Joanne Woodward is especially good as a kinda-sorta Val, again from Tennessee, but as if Danny Waleska were the childhood sweetheart that she'd moved to the Californian suburbs with after a rocky start at married life. [MEDIA=youtube]WJbh1-4z9rs[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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