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I saw America in the 1970s
Darby 2022-01-11 08:02:37
If you want to understand the United States in the 1970s, I recommend watching this movie. Politics, cars, car accidents, assassinations, country songs, star chasing, striptease...all the screens, and apart from these visual impressions, the most distinctive is the auditory "noisy". From the beginning to the end, it can be said that there is no one second of silence. However, there are very few quiet conversation scenes. Some are political propaganda, quarrels, and noise from tweeters. While various scenes are constantly intersecting, various noises also gather together. Only when the singers sing can get a moment. The tranquility. It is also a movie with country music as the theme. The 2008 Oscar Award for Best Actor "Wild Heart" is a completely different style. I prefer the latter. (November 8, 2011, watched at Minamikaikan, Kyoto)
Extended Reading
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Albuquerque: Well, I know it sounds arrogant, but I'm on my way to town, if I ever make it, to become a country-western singer or star.
Kenny Fraiser: Yeah? What are you gonna do if you don't?
Albuquerque: If I don't? I don't kn... Oh, I could always go into sales.
Kenny Fraiser: Like ladies' clothes? Like what you're wearing?
Albuquerque: No... I don't know. Well, I know all about trucks, so I'd go into trucking, I guess.
Kenny Fraiser: You're kidding me.
Albuquerque: No, I'm not kiddin' you. I'm in a truck enough. And I know how to fix motors and all that.
Kenny Fraiser: Nobody'd buy trucks from a girl.
Albuquerque: I been fixin' motors a long time. They'd buy 'em from me 'cause I know all about motors. Why do you say that? See, what's happenin' is, if I can't sell trucks and I can't go...
Kenny Fraiser: Nobody'd buy a truck from a girl.
Albuquerque: [Spots her husband's truck] I knew this was gonna happen. Don't say you saw me.
[Runs off]
Star: Hey, you haven't seen my wife, have ya? She's sort of ordinary-lookin'.
Kenny Fraiser: Uh-uh. Are you going into town?
Star: You're not one of them country singers, are ya?
Kenny Fraiser: No. Can you give me a ride?
Star: All right, get in. You look like a guy I was in the navy with. He wouldn't bathe, so we had to pee in his bed to get him discharged.
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Haven Hamilton: I don't know who you are or what you're doing here, but I will not tolerate rudeness in the presence of a star...
[pauses, glances at Eliot Gould]
Haven Hamilton: Two stars.