Word: fender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fender Bender...
Here is film noir stripped down to its basics--a road, a bar, a motel, an affair, a private eye, a murder, a pinwheeling series of betrayals--then customized with camera style. Strapped to a car fender, or sauntering at ankle level through a rowdy party, or tracking smoothly down a long bar counter (and over a passed-out customer), the Coens' camera is a participant in the action, and worlds hipper than anyone on-screen. "Hi, I'm here," it as much as says, "and I'm soooo smart." It is too; it creates elegant riddles of space...
...prosperous Mission Viejo at the cycling road races. Charmingly, many of the estimated 200,000 spectators who lined the green curbsides or climbed the brown hillsides arrived astride their own ten-speeds, even bicycles built for two-and-a-half (the baby on the back fender). It was the freest event in the most expensive Olympics, and a sunny Sunday for a picnic in suburbia, where neighborhood residents favored hearts of palm and caviar over potato salad and baked beans...
Many bicyclists are hit by cars each year, but they too can cause accidents. A driver's first reaction when a bike appears unexpectedly in front of him is to swerve or hit the breaks. The bicyclist may escape unharmed but leave a fender-bender or a far worse casualty in his wake...
...more lurid excesses, stripping it down to a tense tale of a dorky teen-ager whose 20-year-old Plymouth has an evil will of its own. The gleaming heap was actually played by 24 different vehicles, only three of which were still running by the end of the fender-bending filming...