Is there any movies that embodies the 1970s better?
>>221587273>Is there any moviesSaare there any movies...Taxi Driver.
>>221587301FPBP, there couldn't possibly be a better answer.
Pink Flamingos
Joe
>>221587273I love this movie
>>221587548What do you think of the theory that the astrology stuff discussed in the opening actually is what's making people go crazy?
>>221587273Unwatchable.90 minutes of that dumb blonde bitch screaming.
>>221587548It depicts one full day in all the colors of the rainbow. And its various "openings" unfold seamlessly, using its opening run time in a short feature very efficiently.>>221587582I don't know about that, but the real significance of the astrology stuff is that it describes the character's motions. Moving backwards, "in retrograde" like a planetary body, is bad. The story is a linear track moving between six or seven locations, as the characters move "forward" through them all. Only Sally moves forward through all of them, the rest move backwards in some way or are killed.When Sally is chased by Leatherface at night, she passes through the house, and jumps out of its BACK window and runs BACKWARDS toward the gas station, a place she's been before. She's still trapped, because she's in retrograde. The way out is through, she has to crash through the FRONT window of the house and get onto the front road in order to escape. Pam, Kirk and Jerry get close to this, at the front door of the house, but they go backward, to their deaths.
>>221587273>10/10 horror picture>Director does nothing but okay horror-comedies (no straight horror) for the rest of his career>Continues to talk about how he wanted tcm to be funny in every interviewI always get excoriated on these threads for saying this, but I really think that Tobe Hooper got tardwrangled despite himself, and only accidentally made this masterpiece so good because the people around him just happened to elevate his vision into something grander. Gunnar Hansen just happened to be the biggest guy, but he chose to elevate the Leatherface performance and improvised some of the films best moments, and all of Leatherface's mannerisms, were from Gunnar's own initiative. But these are some of the films STRONGEST moments, the way Leatherface fears and cowers under his own family was (allegedly) Gunnar's doing. Imagine the script without that detail, just that alone.Other little things as well. Like the fact that filming was genuinely miserable, all the actors authentically suffering on camera in the heat of the set. If nothing else you get genuine emotion out of the actors that way... And otherwise the same scenes might have felt cheesy and insincere, if the set were air conditioned and comfortable.Other anons have pointed out the very specific symbolism in the films shots, so I'll admit that it's clearly constructed with strict intentionality, but I can't shake the suspicion that Hooper somehow got lucky here and that the film almost magically manifested. Like it's not one genius vision that was authentically realized, it was a lesser vision that happened to come out genius.
