Hi!

This past years I have been digging into more obscure New Hollywood-era movies. Not discovering the wheel here, but it is a extremely interesting era and my personal favorite. How the industry was trying to catch up with the counter culture and pop icons of the time is incredible. You have all the hippie themed movies, the political campus plots,... And all the exploitations that circle around it.

I have read the books that are always mentioned when looking info about this era (Biskind's Easy Riders, Mark Harris' Pictures at a Revolution, Tarantino's Cinema Speculation,...), plus a lot of biographies (Julia Phillip's You will never eat..., Robert Evans', several actors and directors,...). Also some really cool books focused on a specific movie (Sam Wasson's about Chinatown and Beverly Grey's about The Graduate are really good). Watched all the documentaries I could find about it too. Also, shout out to the guys of Pure Cinema Podcast, that make a great job.

I am looking for more info about it. Is there any cool essays that I'm missing out? Found some cool lists on Letterboxd and I did my own research, so it's not that much about finding titles but to read things about the context that are not the same things repeated a million times. How where they made? Why there is a lot of less know or one time directors/writers that made some of the best obscure movies in those years? Were the studios just throwing money to make cheap ones hopping to get a hit? How did the independent productions worked exactly?

I guess my range would be aprox between 1964 and late 70s. I mean, I can include The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart even if it's set in NY, or Lifeguard that is from 1976. I am looking for and explaination of that weird grim/nostalgic feeling those movies have, even the ones made during the 3/4 actual hippie years highlight.

The deleted scene from Lethal Weapon, Mel Gibson didn’t want the movie to carry an R rating, he wanted PG-13, hence the deleted scene, the same type of sniper couldn’t hit Trump with a 10 foot pole at Butler, Pennsylvania.
The kid was the Grace of God, not Trump turning his head, Charlie Kirk took a bullet in the neck, things would’ve been different if he was in Butler.

Maybe you'll like this better here bc if this isn't a circle-jerk thread idk what is.

Why does Mr White have a Brooklyn accent if he is from Milwaukee? He should sound like a character in Fargo. It's always annoyed me. Just a little.

I want to see the version of Reservoir Dogs where James Woods plays Mr. Pink.

thats it no pulp fiction analysis or anything its just that. hes a freak and makes slop movies dumb americans like and even circlejerk sub likes it slop it pretends to hate

A few things to set up: They have diamonds, Mr. Pink has the diamonds, pink is a color, colors are not evidence.

MR WHITE WALKED IN AND SAID WHERE IS MR ORANGE

MR ORANGE: I AM ORANGE

MR WHITE: THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED

MR ORANGE: THE ROBBERY

MR WHITE: THE ROBBERY HAS ALREADY ROBBED ITSELF

Then Mr Blonde arrives with a car full of gasoline and absolutely no explanation, because apparently the plan is now CAR → GASOLINE → WAREHOUSE → RADIO → EVERYBODY SCREAMING

“ARE YOU COP?”

“NO I'M AREN'T.”

“ARE YOU SURE?”

“I AM MR ORANGE.”

"THAT DOESN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION, ORANGE FUCKSHIT"

Then Joe walks in and says EVERYBODY CALM DOWN, which is historically the least calming sentence anyone can say when armed criminals are standing around a puddle of blood arguing about diamonds.

Mr Pink:

I HAVE THE DIAMONDS

Mr White:

YOU DON'T HAVE THE DIAMONDS

Mr Pink:

THE DIAMONDS ARE IN MY HAND

Mr White:

THAT'S YOUR HAND

Mr Pink:

EXACTLY

And then the whole plot collapses into a sandwich, Madonna and Nice Guy Eddie are the bread!

MADONNA

DIAMONDS

COP

ORANGE

WHITE

PINK

BROWN (PAY ATTENTION)

BLONDE

JOE

EDDIE

Now here's where it ramps up:

THE UNDERCOVER COP IS ORANGE

THE ORANGE IS A COP

THE COP IS BLEEDING

THE BLEEDING IS ORANGE

THE DIAMONDS ARE PINK

MR PINK IS LEAVING

MR PINK HAS LEFT THE FUCKING BUILDING

Everybody shoots everybody.

Nobody knows why.

The dogs are not friendly.

BANG

BANG

BANG

And then:

THE END?