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...film's chief protagonist, a young suburban punk called Otto. Otto is rootless, aimless, unhinged--of this we are made painfully aware. We meet him first in a supermarket, where he is getting fired from his job, but the scene quickly shifts to outside an L.A. home where a gang of punks are into some serious slam-dancing action. The scene and music (solid hardcore) immediately conjure up the rage of Decline, the late great documentary about the L.A. punk scene. Now we find Otto in bed inside with some girl, spreading himself out in his underpants...
...stripes, and the heroic repo men for the '64 Chevy commandeered by J. Frank Parnell. There is something slightly extraterrestrial about this car, and it interests the government radiation squad, beaded by metal-handed Agent Rogersz. The thieves, the no-good Rodreiguez brothers and a three-man gang of punk liquor store robbers, also want the car- for the money, apparently, as do the repo men, who are interested in a $20,000 commission for impounding the vehicle...
Perle ridiculed the swap scheme, in part because it came from "the old SALT gang." Burt tried to enlist the support of the Chiefs. On a bright spring day in 1982, Perle was coming down the escalator at the entrance of the Pentagon when he spotted Burt just ahead of him. Perle hailed him and asked what he had been doing...
...heart of both films is a cautionary fable that spans nearly five decades of American antisocial history: from 1921, when a teen-age gang of Jewish punks assembles in their Manhattan ghetto, to 1933, when the gang's leaders, Noodles (Robert De Niro) and Max (James Woods), tumble into betrayal, to 1968, when the old men meet to act out their perverse codes of honor. Leone filmed the story in the luscious, mythic style that he developed in his popular "spaghetti westerns" with Clint Eastwood and perfected in Once upon a Time in the West (1969), an outsider...
...five parts of the film deal first with Demetrios's father's sculpture, then a man talking to his dog, then a woman who goes into a fall-out shelter to seek refuge from nuclear war only to emerge 10 years later to discover it did not occur, a gang leader talking to the camera and finally a woman director shooting her lover about whom she has just made a film. The film within the film contains the sex scene. Admits Demetrios: "some of the content is a little bit unusual...