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Adrien Joyce's screenplay does not have to cover much territory (in time or space) or involve many characters to bring its goods home. It tells the simple story of a moody redneck named Robert Dupea (Jack Nicholson), who works on an oil-rig by day and sleeps with Ray (Karen Black), a dumb-blonde diner waitress, by night...
...seems. When Robert returns to his childhood Washington home after receiving news that his father is dying, we discover that he is actually the wayward son in a family of musical prodigies. The redneck is not a redneck after all, but an alienated misfit, unable to adjust to either the intensely intellectual world of his family or the mindless physical world of Middle America. Robert is that figure increasingly common to American films-a man without a country...
...newspapers has been replaced by a freak holding a lid. The caption reads, "Percy Sibbin makes $500 a week and is always stoned!" Unfortunately, much of the remainder of the comic is more self-indulgent mockery than readable satire. In the lead story, "An Okie from Waskogie," Sodmind Redneck is drinking with the boys when acid somehow falls into his glass of white lightning'. "The Return of Wong" is a Kong-like monster returning to defecate on New York City. The final story, "Pamela," traces a woman of fashion going to the beauty salon and being summarily eaten...
...perhaps it was because I am a Louisiana redneck, and I could understand an Egyptian redneck. Nasser was a hick. Though he was born in Alexandria, he was marked as a Saidi, a product of his father's village in upper Egypt, regarded as a vulgar character because his first language was Arabic instead of French...
...snarling as the overdrawn wrongos of his Dad's old oaters, and its bloody ending reminiscent of the Emperor Nero's desire to attend his own funeral. Today Peter has evolved an elaborate ambiguity to justify its action-comic wanderers, Wyatt and Billy, and the mindless violence of their redneck antagonists. "Dennis Hopper and I represent a complete misunderstanding of what freedom's all about," he claims. "Both concepts are untenable, whether it's scoring and wanting to retire to Florida and ride around on your chopper, or whether it's just making money off of people...