Asphalt races

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Movie
German title Asphalt races
Original title Two-Lane Blacktop
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length (DVD) 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (DVD)
Rod
Director Monte Hellman
script Rudy Wurlitzer ,
Will Corry
production Michael Laughlin
music Billy James
camera John Bailey ,
Jack Deerson
cut Monte Hellman
occupation

Asphaltrennen (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 through the US Southwest .

action

Two young men drive their 1955 Chevrolet (a Chevrolet One-Fifty ) with a converted, large engine (Chevrolet Big-Block 454) and an air scoop on the bonnet and earn a little money with it. On the way they take a hitchhiker ( Laurie Bird ) with them. After several times a on their journey Pontiac GTO meet, she asks the driver of the car ( Warren Oates ), who in the film only G. T. O. is called, at a gas station to a race across the United States to Washington, DC out, with the winner the Should receive the other's car.

During the course of the race, GTO repeatedly picks up hitchhikers to whom he tells invented life stories that are made up of his wishes and recent experiences. The other two never drive far ahead, but blacken him to the police when they stop him, reconcile, later repair his car and collect him when he falls asleep while drunk while trying to remove the license plate from another car. In between, they drive races to top up their funds, which GTO uses to get a head start. Later the hitchhiker goes with GTO, who makes her various promises. At the last rest stop before the finish line, she gets on a young man's motorcycle and drives away with him. In the end, the race to Washington seems to have been forgotten, the driver of the 55 Chevy starts another race.

background

History of origin

  • The role of driver was originally offered to Bruce Dern , who refused it.
  • A total of three vehicles for the 1955 Chevrolet were used in the film. One of the cars was later driven by Harrison Ford in the film American Graffiti , and another model equipped with a roll bar was to be used in a rollover at the end of the film. However, this scene was not filmed; the vehicle was then used in the rollover scene in American Graffiti.
  • The car was offered for sale in 2014.
  • In this film, both Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and singer-songwriter James Taylor had their first and only film roles.
  • To determine the times during the races, Dennis Wilson used his own wristwatch, a Rolex Daytona, while filming .
  • The film marked the debut of actress Laurie Bird (as the hitchhiker). She only starred in two other films before she committed suicide in 1979.

In 2012, asphalt racing was added to the National Film Registry .

Reviews

“He was a romantic in the spirit of Albert Camus, said Monte Hellman, 'I long for what cannot be.' His film 'Asphaltrennen' dreams of this land of freedom, space and aloof silence, its size is far ahead of similar works like 'Easy Rider', 'Vanishing Point', Walter Hills 'The Driver'. "

- Holger Kreitling : The world

Awards

Library of Congress

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_888-Chevrolet-One-Fifty-1955.html
  2. ↑ Bob Sorokanich: 1955 Chevy from Two-Lane Blacktop headed to auction , website "roadandtrack.com", October 27, 2014
  3. ↑ Holger Kreitling: The best road movie with hot rods. Die Welt, July 12, 2008, accessed on July 24, 2013 : "Motors can sound so beautiful - wrrroooomm."