Thursday, September 15, 2005

Thank you Harvey. Thank you for jack diddley shit. Actually, let me extrapolate on this feeling:

Eat my log. Hear this decree, all those who decide to comment on our blogs by posting bank information upon Meat Wallet's fine urine-stained bathroom walls! All ye who dare to post further bank information, I'd like to offer you a proposition. I bet you're terrible in bed, and guess what? I win that fucking bet. Boomshockalaka!

Now that I've dealt with Harvey, let me give the answer to my question. The film that contains the line pertaining to spousal abuse: Smokey and the Bandit. This movie fired me up. Number one: Burt Reynolds. Number two: That lady who is his co-star, I don't have the concentration to go to imdb.com. Number three: Stunts. Let's attack this numberifically.

1. Burt Reynolds - a demon released from the pregnant stench of hell, he is arrived upon our world to do one thing and one thing alone: act. And this man does this and more, playing the living legend "The Bandit," a rabble-rousing, policeman (a Smokey, according to an ancient truckdriving colloquialism) avoiding, stunt driving, laugh chuckling, CB radio talking, ego loving car driver. Reynolds yips and yells, smiles and answers questions like no one's business. A hat is worn, but this is not your grandmother's hat, nor is it a hat you'd invite to an evening gala at Martha's Vineyard. The hat exists as a bizarre totem for the "The Quietly Grotesque Bandit." as he does not allow himself to make love to ANYONE without the removal of said hat. The bandit's ever-pining foil is Sergeant Buford T. Justice, played by an absolutely delicious Jackie Gleason. The actor commands attention in a watershed performance that leads Gleason to his ultimate artistic statement, Smokey and the Bandit 3.

2. This actress was great! Her ass could solve the energy crisis. This movie provided wonderful answers to a common stumper. Namely, how does a director frame a proper buttocks shot when said director is filming two actors in a speeding car? Hal Needham does an exceptional job, worthy of a pile of money in fact. As soon as the plot began to sag, Sally Field just has to get something out of the back of the car. This is where the two actors truly meet, an emotional moment, as we see Sally Field's jean choked rear end. Smokey smiles and is patient, and then turns his head towards the set of buttock, He takes the moment in, and his honesty is apparent. There is only Smokey, played nakedly by Reynolds. The laughter rolls like echoes o'er mountaintops. That isn't art, it's life. It's life.

3. STUNTS BABY! Car crashes, car crashes, car crashes! Great work by a rugged crew of stuntmen and soundmen. Almost every single shot of a car going anywhere involves a loud racket and peeling tires. This works well when used as an overarching theme.

To sum up this film, let's discuss the previously touched upon but never fully described overarching themes of Smokey and the Bandit.

1. Car Stunts and assorted stuntery (bar fight, romantic scene)
2. Burt Reynolds laughing
3. Truckdrivers as folk heroes
4. The Police (Smokies) love hookers
5. Jackie Gleason advocates spousal abuse

-William Shale Thomas

1 Comments:

Blogger Lena Webb said...

I knew it was a Western! I guess the whole "Sheriff" thing gave it away.

What about Burt Reynolds' moustache??? I've never been a huge fan of the lip curtain, but boy does Burt refine AND redefine the concept.

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