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Five Easy Pieces (DVD)

 
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1970 / Director: Bob Rafelson / Actors: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black ... / DVD ... more
Five Easy Pieces (DVD) ... released 08 March, 2004 at Uca Catalogue / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / This subtle, existential character study of an emotionally distant outcast (Nicholson) forced to confront his past failures remains an intimate cornerstone of American cinema of the 1970s. Written and directed with remarkable restraint by Bob Rafelson, the film is the result of a short-lived partnership between the filmmaker and Nicholson--the first was the zany formalist exercise, Head, while the equally impressive King of Marvin Gardens followed Five Easy Pieces. Quiet and full of long, controlled takes, this film draws its strength from the acutely detailed, non-judgemental observations of its complex protagonist, Robert Dupea--an extremely crass and frustrated oil worker and failed child pianist hiding from his past in Texas. Dupea spends his life drinking beer and sleeping with (and cheating on) his annoying but adoring Tammy Wynette-wannabe girlfriend, but when he learns that his father is dying in Washington State, he leaves. After the film transforms into a spirited road movie, and arrives at the eccentric upper-class Dupea family mansion, it becomes apparent that leaving is what Dupea does best--from his problems, fears and those who love him. Nicholson gives a difficult yet masterful performance in an unlikeable role, one that's full of ambiguity and requires violent shifts in acting style. Several sequences--such as his stopping traffic to play piano, or his famous verbal duels with a cranky waitress over a chicken-salad sandwich--are Nicholson landmarks. Yet, it's the quieter moments, when Dupea tries miserably to communicate and reconcile with his dying father, where the actor shows his real talent--and by extension, shows us the wounded little boy that lurks in the shell of the man Dupea has become. --Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

Newest Review: ... got absolutely nothing to do with anything non english speaking, and in a black n white world that is true, but what these ... more

 ... films are, is character studies, rather than having any major thing happen, and there are a lot of foreign films like that... Anyway, five easy pieces is to one person, very boring, there's a lot of chat, very little action and nothing really resolved by the end, nor does it really answer any questions that you may be asking yourself throughout. In a sense, i think perhaps that any other actor would have failed to bring anything interesting to the film, and it may have been boring. I also believe that its a part bas...more

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Premium Review Five Easy Pieces (DVD): Jack Nicholson - using his fingers (302 words)
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Ok cards on the table, im a huge jack nicholson fan, but who isnt? he is the white samuel l jackson... There are 3 films that got me interested in foreign films or "world cinema" as hmv tries to convince me.. Taxi Driver One Flew over the cukoo's nest Five Easy pieces Now, these 3 films you might say have got absolutely nothing to do with anything non english speaking, and in a black n white world that is true, but what these films are, is character studies, rather than having any major thing happen, and there are a lot of foreign films like that... Anyway, five easy pieces is to one person, very boring, ...  Read the complete review

 
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