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The record begins at the waste, where we are shown a roadblock of repugnant proportions, and a white 1970 Dodge Challenger rocketing toward it. From there the epic begins, backing up two days to give the rest of the anecdote. An interstate trudge is on for the driver of the Challenger, whom we know nothing at all about. As the chronicle unfolds, the identity of the driver is rationed out in flashbacks and news reports, slowly bringing into focus the nature of the character. At first, we naturally choose the driver to be a simple car thief, as does law enforcement. Gradually, we learn that the driver is not a thief at all, he is simply delivering the car. He is a decorated Vietnam ancient who joined the police department after his first-rate discharge, married a graceful girl, and then lost her in a surfing accident. Not long after, he stopped a senior officer from beating and raping a young hippie girl, and was dishonorably discharged from the force. We also learn that his high-octane burn across the desert is to satisfy a simple wager: if he makes it from Denver to San Francisco in less than 15 hours, he doesn’t have to pay for the amphetamines he bought to hold him awake for the scamper. He is guided along the plot by blind disc jockey “Supersoul” (Cleavon Petite), who speaks to the driver (whose name is we learn is Kowalski (no last name given, via the AM radio in the Challenger. Supersoul is Kowalski’s invisible guardian angel, advising him of the cop’s attempts to terminate him, at least until some local rednecks bust into the radio set with a storm of rocks and racial epithets and beat Desirable Soul and his engineer into submission. As Kowalski rockets across the blasted desert landscape, he encounters numerous crackpots and visionaries, all of whom seem to offer another part to the puzzle that Kowalski’s life has become. From prospectors to faith healers, outlaws to newlywed hijackers, we are given a recognize into a world that exists far from the beaten track we all fade each day. As Kowalski hurtles toward his date with the destiny that was mapped out for us at the very beginning of the film, each rumor and news describe seems to contradict the image of him that is being played out by the police of several states, elevating him to something of a folk hero among a growing legion of fans and supporters.
This movie knocked me out from the very beginning. For those die-hards, yes, there are plenty of car chases and stunts to satisfy most fans of car/action films. But that’s not the whole fable, by any measure. For this is the tale of one man, not a mythic yarn, or even a regional folk hero. Why does he do what he does? He simply has nothing left to lose or procure. How many men returned from Vietnam at least a slight disillusioned by the world they came home to? How many have had their lives mapped out orderly and delicate, only to have the blind monkey wrench of fate turn their worlds upside down? Here is a man who is perfectly willing to sacrifice his freedom, his safety, and possibly even his life to secure what amounts to a ten-dollar bet, at best. When Kowalski finally arrives at the roadblock, the inevitable conclusion to his odyssey, he takes the only road he knows, a path which had been region for him ever since the beginning.
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On a cinematic level, the influence of Vanishing Point is far reaching, indeed. The fable of a jaded ex-cop who has lost his wife, his hope and, to a degree, his humanity, was taken and nitro-injected in George Miller’s Angry Max (1979) and the Road Warrior (1982), as Max Rockatansky (not too far a near from Kowalski) has his life violently ripped out from under him, and thus turns to the originate road. At first for revenge, but then because it is the only world he can exist in, a space where jungle law prevails. By then, Max is nothing more than a shell, a ghost of a human who haunts the blighted landscape propelled by a hunger not even he can understand. One of the most effective region devices is that of not giving the protagonist a name until well into the film. Joel Schumaker ancient this technique very well in his respectable movie Falling Down (1993), not giving Michael Douglas’ character a name until the final act of the film’s anecdote. By doing this, we are allowed to behold the character as a sort of everyman, someone whom we may know, or may even be. We are then free to glimpse the goings-on at a distinguished more personal level, brilliant all too well that the tale being played out upon the shroud could, given the factual circumstances, be any of us, and to that waste, possibly even all of us. By the time we learn that the character is someone, it’s too leisurely. They are already a allotment of us, stride by destiny and experience. Also of effect is the using of a disc jockey to provide a running commentary on the nature and exploits of the protagonist (as well as provide a reasonable source for the music in the film), a method ancient, to lesser enact, in Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) . Lastly, although film characters have been bumping into oddballs in the desert for years, Abbe Wool’s amazing Roadside Prophets (1992) stands out as the protagonists slump through the desert, encountering numerous wisdom-dispensing desert dwellers, each contributing their ideas, ideals, and experiences in a device that lends toward a larger collective ideology wherein a greater truth resides.
This is a masterpiece of filmmaking. Do yourself a mountainous favor and check it out.
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After seeing this movie in ‘71, a year before obtaining my driver’s licence, it truly influenced my driving skills and my cherish for high performance American horse power. Seeing the movie now almost a hundred times over, I know the dialog word for word. This is a cult classic to be shared with those 70’s era Mopar fanatics who too have seen this movie in it’s various cuts at the local driveins. (And attemped to drive objective as posthaste as Kowalski did after they left the drivein) . Having the sound track on LP(vinyl) and the movie on VHS, I can revisit my obsession with this film and sound track when ever I feel the need to reassure myself for need of controlled race. Remember, they mature several Challengers during the filming and you can gawk some of the different cars throughout the film if you have a attractive perceive. For those who can fix the frame of the movie unbiased after Kowalski makes impact and someone is spraying water on the wreckage, they can survey the the car is a white Camaro. Leer at the vent windows on the door frame. Challengers did not have these! For those with a really lively observe and a expansive shroud can notice the Camaro script on the truck lid also. For those newer viewers, sit abet and be pleased a pre Dukes of Hazzards right car dash. It doesn’t glean any better than this. (Unless we can come by it on DVD along with a CD version of the excellant music sound track! Hint, Hint!)
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