nowhere man ([info]budhaboy) wrote,
@ 2008-11-16 20:55:00
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I watched five easy pieces this weekend.

It underscored nearly perfectly why I think people who self identify themselves as 'baby boomers' are completely fucked in the head. That main character was such a monumental asshole, but the way the story was being told, and from what I can remember about the times, I was supposed to be having sympathy for him... He was an ass who was having a hard time in life because of circumstances entirely of his own making...

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[info]pageeater
2008-11-17 04:01 am UTC (link)
I haven't seen that in decades, but I won't ever forget that diner scene when he was trying to order - whatever it was.

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[info]bookfoole
2008-11-17 08:11 pm UTC (link)
toast --which they don't serve, so he ordered a club sandwich and had everything "held."

I haven't seen the film since the early eighties --so, it was probably too close to the period it was about to get any perspective, but I remember enjoying the larger-than-life performance by Nicholson. There's another one I saw around the same time where he switches identities with someone...a journalist maybe?

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[info]budhaboy
2008-11-17 09:46 pm UTC (link)
I remember enjoying the larger-than-life performance by Nicholson. in hind sight it seemed cliched... if only because it would appear in retrospect he has a very limited range.

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[info]bookfoole
2008-11-17 10:05 pm UTC (link)
I probably would still enjoy it. I think of some people as actors and others as movie stars --the stars tend to play themselves in every film. Limited range, but it's the star's personality that's bigger than life and that we want to see. Nicholson, chose good films and even though most of the parts were written for a character like Jack Nicholson, I think he usually added something to most of the films and could carry off most of his parts --as far as him being self-centered, I never really got the feeling the film was for his life-style, holding him up as someone to emulate. In fact, I got the idea that it was a slice-of-life film that was just observing, not advocating --and if anything, was cautionary. That said, it's been decades since I saw it.

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[info]budhaboy
2008-11-17 09:45 pm UTC (link)
yeah, it was toast... he asks for a chicken sandwich on toast, then asks to have everything held except the toast... when the waitress ask him what to do with the chicken, he tells her to hold it between her legs. Reasonably outraged, she read him the riot act to which he smashes all the glasses and starts screaming some gibberish about how fucked up everything is.

I did love the final scene where he noted to the his brother's fiance (who he bedded, and was shocked that she'd rather do something constructive with her life and stay with the brother instead of become a drifter and screw a lot and leave with jack) that he stays in one place only until 'things turn bad'... seemingly oblivious to the notion that he may be responsible for that.

Why's the world so fucked up today? Self-centered asshats like 'dubya, and really every one of those GOP bastards.

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[info]pageeater
2008-11-17 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Well, *for me* it's time to let go of the 'fucked up today' attitude. We elected a president whom, I believe, will do his best to incapacitate the GOP predilection for blood. And 'dubya will soon be on his way back to Texas - and Cherney to his grave.

As far as self-centered assholes, like the character Nicholson portrayed in 'five easy...' -- they'll always be around. We can only hope that one of our own offspring doesn't become one of them. :-)

I think the world will make it through until it's no longer meant to. Best thing we can do now is start laughing and get hopeful. And leave ourselves the option to revisit these issues, right here, a couple years from now.

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