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...example: Hopper boasts that he can make "oh, six . . . eight . . . eighteen" girls in one night. The following scene shows the girls-burlesque queens, whores, coed groupies-entering Hopper's Taos. New Mexico ranch. kindly imported by Schiller and Carson. The reaction of one of Hopper's steady women is shock and jealousy-why are they here? why is the camera on them and not me? When Hopper joins the group, he is nonplussed. (Perhaps his dream has been greater than his reality.) He plays games with the girls. out of fear, amusement and affection; his narration tells us that...
...scene is the most crucial in the film. It presents Hopper in all his sincerity and egoism: he really wishes to know these people, and hopes that they will work together, but is himself prevented from personal exchange by his leadership position and neurotic artistry. "Listen, why don't you listen to me," he urges them at one point, but he sounds sadly self-entranced...
THROUGHOUT the rest of the film. the filmmakers attempt to communicate through fragments their own divided view of Hopper. The most obvious facet they have seized on is Hopper as acid-consciousness-extender and anti-Establishment paragon. Thus, we are given Hopper with two young maidens in a bathtub daring the camera to record the first graphic fellatio in the American cinema; also (somewhat anti-climatically), Hopper walking naked through the streets of. Los Alamos. But more interesting is Hopper's relationship to his work. We see him watching a sequence of his new film. The Last Movie: within...
Because of the uneven material, how one responds to The American Dreamer will be inspired by how one responds to Hopper. He bullshits continually about his mysticism and individuality and innate contrariness. But when dealing with other people, whether a terribly sympathetic press agent, a flushed would-be starlet. or a struggling-to-impress Playboy bunny, he can be unassumingly ingratiating-particularly when his irony is right, and subtly so. "I'm sorry, but I'm just in town for the day . . . since I'm an actress I thought I should meet you." says the starlet. "Well," replies Hopper. fanning...
There are times when the film openly antagonizes Hopper and the audience. In one scene, Hopper is very anxious for the camera to catch a collection of his still photographs; the film makers, however, are too busy cadging him into making a statement on its worth. And instead of a detailed tour of his home and work quarters, all we get is a pretentious...