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Joseph Casper, the 29-year-old campaign manager for Mrs. Hicks, stood talking to reporters by the stage, explaining that the candidate "had never made any pre-judicial move" in the campaign. A lone waitress passed by with an empty tray and he said, "They're not drinking tonight, are they...
...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...
What makes Five Easy Pieces different from other recent American movies, though, is that Robert is detestable. He treats people, particularly women, like shit. He almost runs out on waitress Ray when she becomes pregnant, and, later, when she shows up at his father's home, he ignores her to the point of cruelty...
...example: A scene in a diner. Nicholson has had the classic crisis with the dumb waitress. She accepts no menu substitutions, cannot understand even his compromises. The moment arrives when our blood and Nicholson's are boiling with the same vengeful fury. Instead of responding to the situation (and response is what it's all about), Nicholson destroys it. Rather than commenting on the violent hate which such a situation calls up in us, rather than suggesting ways out these petty confrontations which add up to the trivial but crippling despairs of our existence, Five Easy Pieces plays a puerile...
...gypsy baron," 'a teetotaling Alexander," a "vegetarian Tamerlane," "an unclean essence." Mein Kampf is dismissed by Reck as "Machiavelli for chambermaids." Albert Speer's clean-cut expression is "the epitome of this whole, sickening, mechanical, little-boy-at-heart generation." Goring, the son of a waitress, is rendered among his looted art and phony coat of arms as a preposterous sham. In fact, Reck saw the whole Third Reich as ludicrous kitsch compounded of dueling-club romanticism, gymnastics and "a touch of Hegel...