TrueEasy Rider(sixties, I know)and Vanishing Point both end in a rather downbeat way. Disallusionment with the American dream? Vietnam? I don't know enough about film theory but there's certainly a feel to early seventies movies. Save the Tiger with Jack Lemmon for example great film but...
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cobby,
Wed 7 Aug 2002, 1:06,
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easy rider has to be the most pointless film of all timeit's great, yes. and once it was making a statement about youth culture. but now it is a story about two guys who ride about for a bit, take drugs and get shot for no reason. it's not shakespeare, is it?
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spacefish bong!,
Wed 7 Aug 2002, 1:13,
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I once suffereda long and winding explanation of why they all had to die at the end.
Needless to say, it was a media studies student who delivered it.
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bigdave,
Wed 7 Aug 2002, 1:20,
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I know the feelingI studied film and you were hard pressed to find anyone with any actual love of movies. Ask them to give you a freudian analysis of Cassavettes or somebody and they'd chew your ear off though. Very boring.
( cobby,
Wed 7 Aug 2002, 1:27,
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I was never a big fanreally and it has dated badly, hippy shit and all that. It actually irritates me now, the pair of them do my head in with their nonsence. I really love Two-lane Blacktop and Vanishing point though, similiarly themed but more up my street.
( cobby,
Wed 7 Aug 2002, 1:22,
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