- DEATH RACE 2000 MR PRESIDENT SPEECH MOVIE
- DEATH RACE 2000 MR PRESIDENT SPEECH DRIVER
- DEATH RACE 2000 MR PRESIDENT SPEECH TV
To top off the ludicrousness of the national condition in this film, Mr.
It also has light Orwellian themes, as this future “United Provinces of America” blames France for everything that goes wrong, and has an iron grip on nationwide media and propaganda. There aren’t much in the way of outright jokes in the screenplay, but it is dark humor. Don Steele and Joyce Jameson, as race commentators, were this flick’s over-excitable Effie Trinkets. Stallone and Moritz were the hammiest, while Carradine and Griffeth played it mostly straight. Most of this work was done by the cast playing secondary characters. For shame.ĭirector Paul Bartel embraced the absurdity of the screenplay, directing his cast to exaggerate their performances. Not for nothing did Ralph Nader tear apart that model’s safety in the 1960s. I think this is particularly notable because these cars were driven at high speed for this film, and whoever had to drive the Corvair was risking their life in every scene. According to the internet, again (so it must still be true), all but one of the cars were custom VW Beetles, while the outlier was a Corvair. They are Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov) and her co-driver Pete (William Shephard), whose car is decked out like a Texas steer Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins) and Herman the German (Fred Grandy), neo-Nazis who race in a car evocative of a Nazi buzz bomb Nero the Hero (Martin Cove) and Cleopatra (Leslie McRay), whose car looks like some kind of animal, with slit pupil headlights and tusks Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Stallone) and Myra (Louisa Moritz), a stereotypical 1920s Italian gangster couple, with pinstripe suit and Tommy gun to match and the film’s antihero, Frankenstein (Carradine), and his co-driver Annie Smith (Simone Griffeth), who drive a VW buggy with a saw-toothed Corvette kit body. The participants are a colorful collection.
10 points for man, 20 for a woman, 40 for an infant, 70 for the elderly, and 100 for the disabled.
DEATH RACE 2000 MR PRESIDENT SPEECH DRIVER
Part of his program was instituting a violent, cross-country road race, wherein the winning driver and co-driver aren’t the ones who get from New York to California the quickest, but the ones who run down the most pedestrians along the way. President (Sandy McCallum) led the nation out of the doldrums and into totalitarianism. After an economic crash in the late 1970s, Mr. Griffith and Robert Thom, adapting a short story by Ib Melchior (screenwriter of the infamous Reptilicus), Death Race 2000 tells the sad story of America’s future, in the distant year 2000. According to the internet (so it must be true), Corman wanted to leach a few bucks from Rollerball fans, so he optioned a violent, dystopian future sports story for his own production company. Had I known that the clownish flick I saw back then was not indicative of viewing the film uncut, there would not have been a thirty-plus year gap between viewings.ĭeath Race 2000, first released in 1975, comes to us via Roger Corman and New World Pictures.
DEATH RACE 2000 MR PRESIDENT SPEECH MOVIE
This happened many, many times.īack then, it was common for films to be butchered for broadcast television, but what I saw might be the most egregious example of ruining a movie ever - even more so than the awful voiceover that was added to The Thing. A viewer would watch David Carradine or Sly Stallone plow his car through a line of extras only to see the same footage again soon after.
DEATH RACE 2000 MR PRESIDENT SPEECH TV
Gone was all the gratuitous nudity (understandable), but in its place, whoever prepared the film for TV had decided to just repeat footage. For, the print I saw on television sometime during the Reagan administration had been ruthlessly cut for television. Now, we are in the merciless grip of the Information Age, and I can share with the world the crime to which many, not just I, were subjected. Friends, family, enemies, casual acquaintances - all near at hand to listen to our bullshit. I’ve been cheated! The last, and only, time I saw Death Race 2000 before this latest viewing was in the far distant days of my youth, before the World Wide Web, when all snark had to be shared with those close to us.
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