"The film industry will always exist, but it will no longer be the film industry." - Roger Corman

@craigglennon4417
11 years ago
SKIDDING THE CAR, DE NIRO SHOULD BE ASHAMED, OF HIMSELF

"Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner."
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

"Let's get Wavy!"
― Wavy Gravy

"This was a story about a group of society's unskilled, even illiterate, high school dropouts in a technologically advanced society. Some were psychologically maladjusted. They don't answer want ads for Draftsman, Tool and Die Maker, or Aircraft Fabricator. What is the life of a man with an 80 IQ? Janitor? Street sweeper? Gas station attendant? So why work in a demeaning job? They say: 'Fuck it, I'll get a girl who'll work and she'll collect unemployment and we'll scam together and we'll end up living together almost as well as if I were working. But at least I'm free. It beats holding down some crummy job all my life.'

I saw the Hell's Angel riding free as a modern-day cowboy. The chopper was his horse. The locales would be the wide-open spaces- the beach, the desert, the mountains. I also remembered Sonny Barger's remark that 'we're not losers.' The most famous Angel of them all, and the president of the powerful Oakland chapter, was proud. A "winner" in society's terms meant being Mr. Assistant Sales Manager Barger, not Sonny Barger on a gleaming, growling chopper. The Angels were an intriguiging social phenomenon, and I wanted to tell it like it is." - Roger Corman with Jim Jerome, "How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood (and Never Lost A Dime)"

Featuring a brief surprise appearance by Jim Laczkowski!

"What seem to be vestiges of the Jim Crow world in a sense are just that. But passage of the old order's segregationist trappings throws into relief the deeper reality that what appeared and was experienced as racial hierarchy was also class hierarchy. Now blacks occupy positions in the socioeconomic order previously available only to whites, and whites occupy those previously identified with blacks. And the dynamics of superordination and subordination, patterns of appropriation and distribution, and dominant understandings of which material interests should drive policy remain much as they were.

This underscores the point that the core of the Jim Crow order was a class system rooted in employment and production relations that were imposed, stabilized, regulated and naturalized through a regime of white supremacist law, practice, custom, rhetoric, and ideology. Defeating the white supremacist regime was a tremendous victory for social justice and egalitarian interests. At the same time, that victory left the undergirding class system untouched and in practical terms affirmed it. That is the source of that bizarre sensation I felt in the region a generation after the defeat of Jim Crow. The larger takeaway from this reality is that a simple racism/anti-racism framework isn't adequate for making sense of the segregation era, and it certainly isn't up to the task of interpreting what has succeeded it or challenging the forms of inequality and injustice that persist."
― Adolph L. Reed Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

"Walt Price: What does he like?
Bill Smith: 14-year-old girls.
Walt Price: Well, get him something else. We want to get out of this town alive. Get him half a 28-year-old girl." -David Mamet, State & Main

"The tortures endured, however, were indubitably quite equal for the time, to those of actual sepulture. They were fearfully -- they were inconceivably hideous; but out of Evil proceeded Good; for their very excess wrought in my spirit an inevitable revulsion. My soul acquired tone -- acquired temper. I went abroad. I took vigorous exercise. I breathed the free air of Heaven. I thought upon other subjects than Death. I discarded my medical books. "Buchan" I burned. I read no "Night Thoughts" -- no fustian about churchyards -- no bugaboo tales -- such as this. In short, I became a new man, and lived a man's life. From that memorable night, I dismissed forever my charnel apprehensions, and with them vanished the cataleptic disorder, of which, perhaps, they had been less the consequence than the cause.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell -- but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern. Alas! the grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful -- but, like the Demons in whose company Afrasiab made his voyage down the Oxus, they must sleep, or they will devour us -- they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish." - "Premature Burial", Edgar Allan Poe

"@douglaswallace7680
1 month ago (edited)
Roger Corman at his best ! Starring looks - like - stars : Humphrey Bogart and the Mickey Rooney brothers . I am guessing they were busy the weekend that this film was made ! Kept it on 2.5 playback until 1:02:45 to see a t.Urd with 2 eyes ."

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