Vanishing Point

So it opens with like heroes and it's right when that album came out, it's like filmed at the, like basically contemporaneously with it.

And it's a stings in it like briefly, but it, but it's like this really interesting, like black and white, uh, minimalist road movie but it but it opens with this guy or with across the street you see like the big uh marquee like ticker tape lights and that's the credits and it's like he actually ran them so the city's like running his credits of the film and yeah it's the whole thing is like that the whole thing is like this really immersive experience you know and uh so that's like a great one uh a lot of them are like kind of uh maybe like an expression of like um middle finger to like the man you know like getting one over on the man you know like vanishing point and things like that um two lane blacktop has a sense of that of just kind of like uh pursuing the the road for its own sake but um easy rider is is the is the one that i liked the most, it kind of introduced me to the whole idea and seeing it like 15 or whatever, the first time I saw it, I just, it just was so unlike anything I'd ever seen up to that point.

And it contained what I already was sort of obsessed with, which is sort of the middle 20th century, late 20th century, kind of already had that.

And I with Can't Get No, it's sort of the whole purpose was like an inverted inverted version of that of Easy Rider where Captain America starts the movie dead and

And-

I was like, "Hey, how about all these cars from awesome movies, like Vanishing Point, and Death Proof, and-

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Known for White Christmas, and he's a classic, uh, golden age actor.

He's in Elmer Gantry, The Robe, Vanishing Point, Bad Day at Black Rock.

He's been in a ton of movies from the '50s, '60s, and '70s.

Sydney Lassick plays the pet shop owner.

[laughs] His story was not over.

Um, Chain Gang Women, Slaves, uh, The Wild Bunch, Vanishing Point, CC and Company.

These are just the drive-in films.

Uh, Me, Natalie, uh, Monte Walsh.

She's a real stunt woman.

She does Uma Thurman, Kill Bill, right? And so the whole thing is like Vanishing Point, right? That classic movie with the white- Yeah, because they're

recreating.

That's what they want.

Yeah.

Kyle thought he was Bane.

I had that feeling after watching Vanishing Point.

Because after the movie, we jumped into the exact same car.