Two-Lane Blacktop

Asphalt Race ( Original Title: Two - Lane Blacktop ) is an American film from 1971 in which two young men ( the singer-songwriter James Taylor as a driver and Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson as a mechanic ) in illegal drag races participate through the southwestern United States.

Action

Two young men drive with their 1955 Chevrolet ( a Chevrolet One -Fifty ) with changed, large motor ( Chevrolet big block 454) and air scoop on the hood of the race and earn a little money. Along the way they take time with a hitchhiker ( Laurie Bird). After several times a Pontiac GTO encounter on their journey, it requests the driver of the car ( Warren Oates ), who is called in the film only G. T. O., at a gas station to a race across the United States to Washington, DC out, with the winner to get the car of the other.

As the race progressed GTO takes over again with pickup, where he tells fictional life stories that are made up of his wishes and recently experienced before. The other two never go ahead, but help him out of trouble when the police stops him, repair him even the car and collect him as he drunk in trying another car to disassemble the indicator falls asleep. In between, they go racing to supplement their fund, which uses GTO to achieve a head start. Later, the hitchhiker moves in with GTO, which makes her different promises. At the last rest stop before the finish she gets on the motorcycle of a young man and travels with him about it. At the end of the race to Washington seems to be forgotten, the driver of the '55 Chevy starts again at a race.

Background

Genesis

  • The driver's role was originally Bruce Dern plotted, but they refused.
  • A total of three vehicles for the 1955 Chevrolet in the film were used. One of the cars was later driven by Harrison Ford in the movie American Graffiti, a further equipped with a roll bar model should be used in a rollover at the end of the film. This scene was not rotated; the vehicle was then in the rollover scene in American Graffiti used.
  • In this film, both the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and the singer-songwriter James Taylor had her first and only film roles.
  • To determine the times during the race, Dennis Wilson used during the filming of his own watch, a Rolex Daytona.
  • The film was the debut of actress Laurie Bird ( as Hitchhiker ). She played with only two other films before 1979 took his own life.

Reviews

"He was a Romantic in the sense of Albert Camus, Monte Hellman has said, ' I have a longing for what can not be. ' His film ' asphalt race ' dreams in this land of liberty, of vastness and silence lifted, its size is far ahead of similar works such as ' Easy Rider ', ' Vanishing Point', Walter Hill's 'The Driver'. "

1971 in film Screenplay Film score John Bailey (cinematographer)
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