Option One: “Smokey and the Bandit” Smokey and the Bandit is a film from 1977. It’s an American action comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, and Mike Henry. This film was followed up by two sequels. Because of the Hollywood effect Burt Reynolds had on television during the 1970’s. “He was declared Cosmopolitan magazine's "Perfect Man" in 1972, and within a few years became the top grossing male film star in the world” (Smith 2005). After watching
The movie Smokey and The Bandit by Hal Needham is the story of two friends who set out to “do what they said can’t be done”. With attention to detail it is easy to see how just one little event can turn everything around for the pair. Many of the scenes throughout this movie show the two friend “Snowman” Jerry Reed and “The Bandit” Burt Reynolds truck across the states to Texas to bring back booze with them in order to win a bet. What these two do not plan on is encountering a runaway bride who
Five Easy Pieces: Transgressive Fiction, Heterology, and the BBS Style The opening image of Five Easy Pieces sets the stage for the introduction of the main character, creates a framework for the development of the story, and creates an unambiguous visual illustration of how the movie exemplifies films made under BBS Productions, the innovative company which produced movies for a short period of time from around the late-1960s to the mid-1970s. BBS contributed several notable films during the period
Movies featuring car chases have always been popular in Hollywood. Classics like Smokey and the Bandit, To Live and Die in L.A. and Bullitt all contributed to the action genre. The movie Drive however, used car chases in a movie that drew from the action genre, the romance genre, and the crime genre of films. The movie is a depiction of the life of a man only known as “The Driver”. The movie follows him as he tries to balance his life of crime, with his love of cars and driving, and also an attempt
It’s hard to believe that the cell phone, which has revolutionized daily life, is a relatively new phenomenon. It wasn’t that long ago, that a telephone was like a piece of “furniture” that connected to a wall in a home or place of business and was used for making a telephone call. Today a cell phone is a part of one’s wardrobe. It goes where we go, and it is used for so much more than making calls. In his book Cell Phone Culture, Dr. Gerard Goggin looks at the cultural implications of this transformative
Looking up, you see that it is almost your turn. After getting off the hood of the car, you open the door, and sit inside the vehicle. As you firmly grasp the wooden steering wheel, the scent of unleaded gasoline fills the air, the rigid feel of the leather racing seat brushes skin, and the warm touch of chrome on the shifter radiates through the car. Sliding the key into the ignition, you turn it and hear the low grumble of the HiPo 302 cubic inch engine. You shift the car into first gear and begin