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 film for an assignment in Introduction to Film Studies, and remembering this film was one of my childhood favorites, with some of the derogatory language, I’m not sure as a child, what enticed me to be attractive to this film. Since I was …show more content…
a playful energetic young boy, I must have been attracted to the Pontiac Firebird, which was drive by Bandit, which was played by Burt Reynolds. “I want to argue that Smokey and the Bandit- the second-highest grossing film of 1977, topped only by Star Wars--similarly merges aspects of both the Left and Right cycles, working, like The Godfather, to allow multiple interpretations” (Smith 2005). However, comparing this film to its counterparts during the 70’s, Smokey and the Bandit was a success. With well-known and popular actors such as Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason, along with a low-budget production cost of $4.3 million dollars, this film managed to rake in estimated at over $300 million. At first, this movie starts off at some sort of race track.
You have two wealthy Texans, Big Enos Burdette played by Pat McCormick and his son Little Enos Burdette played by Paul Williams, trying to seek a truck driver who is willing to bootleg Coors Beer to Georgia from Texarkana, Texas for a celebration. Eventually, the Enos clan run into trucking legend Bo “Bandit” Darville played by Burt Reynolds, who is competing in a truck rodeo, with a chance of winning $5,000. The Enos men laugh at the winner’s pot, and offer Bandit to make some real money, $80,000 to go pick up 400 cases of Coors beer from Texas, and bring said beer back to Atlanta in a mere 28 hours. Big Enos breaks it down for the Bandit, “its three grand an hour, if you’re able to make it back in 28 hours.” Because Big Enos is sponsored a driver who is running in the Southern Classic stockcar race. Thus, when he wins, Big Enos wants to celebrate in style. The first funny scene of the movie is when Big and Little Enos are negotiating the fee than will cost for Bandit to haul the 400 cases back to Atlanta. After Bandit and Little Enos insult one another during the negotiations, Bandit said, “I want to see the cash!”. Little Enos pulls out the cash while cussing. Bandit replies, “I need cash for the beer, need cash for a new car!”. While Little Enos is cussing after Bandit makes his rebuttals, Little Enos is counting out the money, and Bandit tells him, “I need a speedy car”, Little Enos counts out more money, and …show more content…
Bandit replies, “speedier than that!” Thus, Little Enos lets of a hysterical grunt. Just the idea of Little Enos taking all the insults from the negotiations, and now having to give this man enough cash to purchase a speedy car, was hilarious because of the mumble responses from Little Enos. After negotiating with Big and Little Enos, Bandit went to the house of Snowman, played by Jerry Reed, to tell him about the job he had just acquired. Bandit needed Snowman to drive the big rig while he drove the Pontiac Trans Am to divert the attention away from the truck and its illegal cargo. After convincing Snowman to partner with him on bringing the 400 cases of brewski to Atlanta from Texarkana in a mere 28 hours, tell were off to Texas. They eventually made it their destination uneventful an hour ahead of schedule. They load up the truck with the brewski and headed back to Atlanta. On the way back, Bandit see a runaway bride, played by Sally Fields, stranded on the side of the road. He stops to help, and she insists on leaving with him. Once they drive off, a van pulls up and starts going through Carrie’s car looking for valuables. Without notice, a Sheriff Buford T. Justice played by Jackie Gleason and his son Junior, played by Mike Henry, pulls up to check and see if Carrie is in her car. The guys in the van was nervous because of thinking they were going to jail, they told Sheriff Justice who picked her up, and which way they went. By picking up Carrie, Bandit is now a target for Mr. Justice because Carrie is his son’s runaway bride. Thus, Sheriff Bufford T. Justice felt so disrespected, that he ignores his own jurisdiction and begins chase on Bandit all the way to Georgia. They chase is what makes the movie.
The legendary Bandit displays the driving skills and after several attempts to apprehend Bandit, Sheriff Justice eventually disintegrates his cruiser. Thus, the remainder of the film involves high-speed chasing, which causes more and more attention from local and state police. Not only does Snowman help Bandit during the high-speed chase, he also gets help via CB radio from an undertaker and his hearse driver during a funeral, a random elderly lady, convoy of trucks, a waitress and several of her customers, and he also receives help from a woman who is running a brothel out of her RV. Thus, with all the distractions to camouflage Snowman, Sheriff Bufford T. Justice, “officer of the law” as he describes himself although the movie, never pays attention to Snowman, much-less his illegal manifest. However, as Bandit and Snowman get closer to their destination, Bandit has help Snowman who is getting pulled over by a motorcycle patrolman. As you can imagine, Bandits legacy reaches new heights after displaying his great driving antics that allows Snowman to get away from the motorcycle patrolman. Near the end of the film, Bandit starts to give up because after the several high-speed chases, and a mere four miles away, they’re running behind schedule. Snowman refuses to listen to Bandit’s sympathy and takes the lead. After Snowman smashes through a police roadblock, they enter Lakewood Speedway with 10 minutes to spare. They made it! Instead of
taking their pay, they double down an agree on another trip to Boston for double the money. Thus, means a sequel. After watching this film as an adult, one scene stuck out to me, and could have been somewhat racist. As Bandit is getting away from one of the many chases, Sheriff Justice radios in telling any law enforcement that would listen, to stay out of the way because the Bandit is his criminal. Thus, the Sheriff of that county, Sheriff Branford replies, “this is my jurisdiction”. Bandit avoids the road block and quickly turns down a dirt road that leads to him jumping the Mulberry Bridge. When Sheriff Justice approaches the once roadblock, one of the officers from the roadblock says, “did you see that they went right through our roadblock”. Being somewhat funny, Sheriff Justice replies, “you sum b$%#@ couldn’t close an umbrella. Great comedy response, which Mr. Justice display all through the movie. However, after Bandit jumps the bridge, the chasing officers don’t manage to jump said bridge, they fall below. Only the sheriff of that current county manages to stop just in time. So, they thought, because Sheriff Justice comes in at a high rate of speed and runs into their cruiser and causes them to fall in. Sheriff Justice gets out of the car to apologize, and with a low-angle shot, he notices a tall black man trying to get out of a police cruiser below. He say’s “hey boy, where’s Sheriff Branford?”, the black man replies, “I am Sheriff Branford.” Sheriff Justice giggles a little and response, “for some reason or other, you sound a bit taller on the radio.” Than Sheriff Justice turns around and tells his son, “what the hell is the world coming’ to?” He just wasn’t ready for a black sheriff. This scene displayed great mixing. The location was perfect. All in all, this film was great for its time. The mise-en-scene tied in well together. The movie was successful because of how they displayed the Pontiac Firebird. “With its sleek, black finish, factory Hurst T-top, gold foil pinstripes and detailing, the Bandit became an immediate sensation in the late 1970s and sparked a global Trans Am phenomenon” (Newswire 2017). After this film was released, Pontiac dealerships sold out of the Firebirds. Pontiac managed to market the vehicle off of the eye-popping car chases from the film. First discovered by Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham in a Pontiac brochure, the special edition was created by in 1976 when Pontiac merged two Trans Ams, a 1976 LE and a 1977 SE for a brochure photo ( Newswire 2017). On the other hand, what makes this film not as successful, would be the fact of not knowing why Sheriff Justice is chasing Bandit. You must watch the sequel to find out that he’s chasing because Carrie is his son’s runaway bride. Thus, could also could have been written this way so the audience would be so intrigued to what watch part II. After watching this film and studying the hillbilly figure, the two figures that stuck out to me was Bandit and Sheriff Bufford T. Justice. Bandit has a caring soul, who seems to be held back due to poverty and tries to make a living illegally. On the other hand, Sheriff Justice plays the hillbilly role of a bad guy. He can be viewed as a loving but hurtful father, demeaning to others, while also being a bigot. In some cases, your typical redneck hillbilly. All in all, this film is worth watching again because Sheriff Buford T. Justice keeps on your heels with all his comedic dialog throughout the movie. Personally, it’s just something funny about an older man using fool language. For me, that’s comedy at its best.
Rusty-James is with Motorcycle Boy when he decides to break into a pet store releasing all of the animals. The police come and shoot motorcycle boy as he is running with a fish toward the river to set them free.
Once they paid for the necessities they were back on the road. Bill realize he didn’t pay for the can of tuna and notice a sheriff car following them. The lights went off and the sheriff pulled them over. They were taking to the station for questioning of a murder. The whole time while being questioned, they both thought they were be accused of shoplifting. Once they realized what was happening, that’s when Bill’s cousin came to defend them.
One day when Ricky is on his way to a village in Mexico that is near the Cartel mansion, he buys a burrito on the street and some boys see how much money he has. He runs away from them for awhile but ends up being cornered. They beat the living crap out of him and take all his money and his shoes. After Ricky wakes up from the beatings, there is a girl sitting across the alley from him. She tells him where the Cartel mansion is located, and she takes him to a restaurant and they eat food out of garbage cans.
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He arrived with the mexicans however, he did not leave with them as he was offered a full time job for the rest of the summer. He accepted the job mainly because he could not stop thinking about the farmer's daughter, Lynette. It was then that he had a steady job and fell in love for the first time. This is where he worked from sun up to sun down.. This went on for weeks. Alice, Bill’s wife would always bring him food and Bill would always pick him up. Until one night, Alice came and got the boy. She told him that Bill was in town and would be home later, however, Alice work the boy up at two in the morning and sent him to town to retrieve her husband. The boy found him in the bar in a huge poker game with lots of money. A huge fight broke out and the boy was told to grab the money off the bar and when the fight finished outside they left. Bill gave the boy almost two hundred dollars of the money. The next night there a sheriff’s car in the driveway. The sheriff was there looking for the boy. He said there was a poster of him in town. Bill told him “he busts his balls for me” that he was a good kid. Again,another life lesson, that working hard had paid off for him. The sheriff told him that if it all checked out he would bring him back. However, the Sheriff took all his money and threw him in a jail cell. It was there that he broke out and ran. He hitched a ride to Oregon. He was pissed and mad. He fell asleep in the man's car on the way to Oregon. When he awoken he was offered some coffee and doughnuts. However, before eating them a peasant came through the windshield and killed the man. The car was wrecked and the boy was scared. He got out of the car and headed down the road. He then picked up by Hazel. She took him to her farm, fed him and cleaned him up and he was grateful for that. Hazel took the boy to the county fair. This is where is ran in to the sheriff that had took all
...nd men after them and they kill Rico’s man. He takes refuge in a old ladies home where he had hidden ten thousand dollars. But the lady makes a deal with him saying he can only stay if he gives her all but $150 of it.
In the song “Tennessee Whiskey” by Chris Stapleton, he describes life before he met his lover and then he figuratively describes the effect this person has on him. He was an alcoholic and this person’s love changed his outlook on the importance of love and alcohol. The intense feeling of how irresistible romantic love can be is illustrated in Chris Stapleton’s song “Tennessee Whiskey” using figurative language such as juxtaposition and hyperbole.
Robert B. Ray categorizes Casablanca as "the most typical" American film. Ray uses Casablanca as a tutor text for what he calls the formal paradigm of Classical Hollywood as well as the thematic paradigm that addresses the conflict between isolationism and communitarian participation. The film is typical in its appropriation of an official hero Laszlo, who stands for the civilizing values of home and community, and an outlaw hero Rick, who stands for individu...
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They end up at the parking lot of a store and they sleep in the minivan and the boat for the night and they accidently lock the keys in the van and their dad uses a fishing rod to try to grab the keys when that failed they lowered Manny into the van and he goes straight for Greg’s duffle bag where he had a pack of oreos and then he went to the driver seat turned the car and turned on his favorite radio station and then he puts the car in drive at first they did not realize that he had been trying to escape to go get his pig from the petting
The two brothers bicker a lot at first, Austin is trying to finish his scrip as Lee is hounding him for his car keys. Saul a Hollywood producer stops
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What makes for a classic Hollywood film? Increasingly, films have evolved to the point where the standard by which one calls a “classic Hollywood film” has evolved over time. What one calls a classic film by the standards of yesterday is not the same as those of today. The film Casablanca is no exception to this. While David Bordwell’s article, “Classical Hollywood Cinema” defines what the classical Hollywood film does, the film Casablanca does indeed conform to the very definition that Bordwell provides the audience with in his article. However, while it is true that the film capers closely to Bordwell’s definition, this is a controversial, as well as subjective, claim to make because everything other than the ending of the film indicates
I would say the target audience for this film would be people who enjoy musicals, no matter their age. The time lag would only have much of an effect for younger generations who do not remember the 1960's and the discrimination and the political actions that were being taken during that time period. The film is still a classic I would say because of all of the wonderful costumes, dancing, singing, acting, and clever story telling through songs. I can definitely see why this film was a popular success then as it still is today.
Murray plays Bob Harris, an American movie star in Japan to make commercials for whiskey. His relationship with is wife is disjointed, they seem to be on a different wavelength, and they are sticking around because it is easier. A good example is when his wife asks over the p...