DENNIS WILSON: TWO-LANE BLACKTOP [also starring: JAMES TAYLOR + WARREN OATES + HARRY DEAN STANTON - 1971 Orig. TRAILER] article via: CINETROPIC
1971
James Taylor Dennis Wilson Warren Oates
[WHOSE PERFORMANCE AND PRESENTATION HERE, I DEDICATE TO DONNA LETHAL]
A rare journey into the psychics [SIC...BUT FUCKING HILARIOUS] of James Taylor and Dennis Wilson.
Dennis Wilson is mesmerizing.
Thurt years is a long time. In thirty years, you forget the details; the essence of life in 1970, until a rare screening of Two-Lane Blacktop brings it all back. Aside from the fact we were all much thinner then; the men had gorgeous sun drenched hair and an inexplicable quality of gentleness beneath a reckless, defiant exterior. Forget the war, the Cultural Revolution, for those of us sweet young things who populated the streets across America on Saturday night, we watched a young man's identity evolve from the horsepower under the hood of their Chevy Chevelle, Ford Mach I, or perhaps a Pontiac GTO. The rumble of glass pack mufflers, blurred by the glint of chrome, raging through the ¼ mile in the moonlight was as erotic as the rhythm of any bass guitar.
The emission control laws of the early 1970's added a few generations of life to the earth, but pushed those great muscle cars into the showrooms and garages of modern reality. On a rare Sunday, one of those garage doors opens and for a brief afternoon you can still catch the glint of passion in the eyes of one of those gentle, reckless souls of summer.-- Reviewed by SUBTROPIC
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP Dir. Monte Hellman 1971 Original trailer starring
DENNIS WILSON James Taylor Warren Oates Harry Dean Stanton
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP 1971
A '55 Chevy takes on a '70 GTO in a race across the Southwest.
Drag racing drifters, James Taylor and Dennis Wilson drive the back roads of America.
A driver, a mechanic and a '55 Chevy with a 454 and four on the floor…
that's all that matters.
Great late 1960s soundtrack includes music by The Doors and Kris Kristoffer's.
James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird, Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, James Mitchum, David Drake, Richard Ruth, Jaclyn Hellman.
Two Lane Blacktop!
SPOILER ALERT!
BEWARE:
THIS NEXT CLIP IS THE CLIMACTIC ENDING TO
"TWOO LANE BLACKTOP"
DO NOT PUSH PLAY OR READ PAST THIS WARNING:
UNLESS
1. YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN, DIDN'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU WERE STONED
2. WANT TO SEE AGAIN BECAUSE YOU ARE STONED
OR
3. DON'T CARE IF YOU SEE THE ENDING BECAUSE YOU ARE STONED AND WON'T REMEMBER THE ENDING IF AND WHEN, WHICH WILL BE NEVER, YOU REMEMBER TO TRY AND BUY THIS ON DVD, WHICH I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING, BESIDES GOING ONLINE THROUGH SOME OF YOUR SPECIALTY MOVIE SITE STORES OR EBAY IS GOING TO BE PRETTY, PRETTY TOUGH, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE STONED.
I MEAN DON'T WALK IN TO BLOCKBUSTER TODAY, IF THEY STILL MAKE THOSE, AND SAY TO BLOCK-BUSTER,
' HEY, I WAS ON THIS BLOG TODAY--UH, I REALLY CAN'T TELL YOU THE NAME OF IT BECAUSE IT'S WRITTEN IN THOSE BLOCKER PARENTHESES THAT GO ON THE INSIDE OF REGULAR CURLY ONES AND IT'S GOT TWO COLONS IN THE MIDDLE, IT LOOKS KINDA LIKE A TV, BUT NOT REALLY, WELL THE GUY THAT RUNS THAT THING I JUST DESCRIBED SAID YOU GUYS WOULDN'T HAVE THIS MOVIE WITH DENNIS MILLER AND WARREN BETTY AND THAT GUITAR PLAYER WHO SOUNDS LIKE THAT DUDE WHO DOES, "YOU ARE MY BODY WONDERLAND," AND WAS A HEROIN ADDICT AND EVEN GOT TO MARRY CARLY SIMON, WHO MAYBE, WROTE "YOU'RE SO VAIN" ABOUT, BUT DON'T QUOTE ME , IT'S A BIG SCANDAL AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHO HAD THE LEAR JET OR ONE EYE IN NOVA SCOTTI CANADA AND STUFF, BUT SHE'S STAGESTRUCK AND MAYBE IT WAS A METAPHOR FOR HER VANITY AND THE WAY IT CAUSED HER TO BE FRIGHTFUL WHEN SHE WAS ON STAGE SINGING THAT "KETCHUP" SONG. WELL, ANYWAY, HER HUSBAND IS RACING DENNIS MILLER DOWN THESE BAWDS CALIFORNIA STREETS IN THE EARLY 70s, SO I'M PRETTY SURE HE WILDA BEEN BANG IN DOWN SOME TIJUANA BROWN, WHICH WAS PROBABLY PRETTY PRIME IN A MELLOW WAY CRUZ IT HAD TOO MANY ZAPATA'S IN LA COCINA, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? WHICH IS WHY, MAYBE THEY MAKE HIM DRIVE THE EL CARMINA INSTEAD OF SOME OF THE OTHER SWEET MUSCLE CARS IN THIS MOVIE. AND THAT SERIAL KILLER, HARRY WAYNE LUCAS IS IN IT, I GUESS, BEFORE HE GOT CAUGHT, BUT WARREN BEATTY, WHO BY THE WAY, MOST PEOPLE THINK IS THE GUY ON THAT OTHER THING I WAS TEL LIN' YOU ABOUT: THE SECRET "YOUR SO..." SONG BECAUSE HE WAS INCREDIBLY GOOD LOO KIN' AND KNEW IT AND PROBABLY HARDWOODED MORE HOLLYWOOD HILLS THAN A BEAVER AT HOOVER DAM CROSSED WITH FRANK SINATRA IN VEGAS.
SO DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT IN STOCK? IT'D PROBABLY BE UNDER CLASSIC MUSCLE CARS?
OH, IT'S CALLIED
"TOW LANEW BLACKKTOP"
"TwoLane Blacktop"
YTCOMMENTATORS
WHERE EVERYTHING GETS SORTED OUT, AND WITH QUESTIONABLY ACCURATE RACIST EPITHETS
+
PLENTY OF OFF-TOPIC/ CHAT ROOM TYPE SLEAZE-VIBE
INCLUDED
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THIS COMMENT SECTION IS RATED
YTFE [YOUTUBE FOR EVERYBODY]
"James Taylor is reflecting back on everything that's been happening.Like is there any logic to continuing on.I'm from Cally. My late dad was involved with car films back then.
You were expecting a crash at the end, right?
Taylor looks at the El Amino, than the field, and than focuses back on the track. Similar to when Miller told Toad in American Graffiti...
The writer(s) probably had nowhere left to go with this (no pun intended), so the "fade-out" ending was probably all they knew to do - kind of like pop songs that don't have a real ending and therefore just fade out.
I Railway's Figured it Meant The Motor Blew Because Earlier The mechanic Is Bitching She's Going To Burn You, I Just Figured he meant the car not the girl.
