- HOW MANY SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT MOVIES ARE THER MOVIE
- HOW MANY SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT MOVIES ARE THER LICENSE
HOW MANY SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT MOVIES ARE THER MOVIE
I said to them ‘I made this movie for the South, Midwest and Northwest, basically. “I don’t think it made enough to pay the Rockettes,” recalled Needham in a 2007 interview. And they opened first at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Universal Studios, which released Smokey, didn’t initially know what they had in the film. The cultural standards of 1977 weren’t those of the 21 st century.
HOW MANY SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT MOVIES ARE THER LICENSE
And beer.Įven though, ack, that included a Confederate battle flag as part of the Trans Am’s front license plate. That abandoned audience was still out there, waiting for a cornball, goofball action comedy like Smokey to entertain them while validating their life choices. It wasn’t just the size of an audience that mattered, but the desirable demographics of what audience was attracted. all were axed as the network found new success with All In The Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Carol Burnett Show. Despite still solid ratings, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Mayberry R.F.D. For instance, in 1971 the CBS television cancelled most of its countrified programs in favor of more topical and upscale shows. More subtly, much of the greater American culture had been moving toward more urban, supposedly sophisticated media as advertisers added data analysis tools to their marketing plans. That it could reconcile its good ‘ol boy character with something approaching modernity. The election of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter to the presidency in 1976 seemed to indicate that the south was growing into something new and better. By the mid-Seventies the South hadn’t yet redefined itself, but it was apparent that naked racism and gooey nostalgia for a mythic gentility wasn’t going to be adequate. Farmland was turning into suburban sprawl, wide concrete highways were replacing dirt roads, and Atlanta had gained NFL, MLB and NBA teams. Desegregation wasn’t just a dream, but (often deeply resented) public policy. The civil rights movement had accumulated important legal victories in both courts and legislatures. Southern and rural culture, battered and diminished after a few decades of desperately needed reform, was battling for its soul. Then, there was Nixon’s self-immolation amid the Watergate scandal.
That initiated a trucker culture incentivized to overcome (and undermine) the speed restriction and based around citizen’s band radios.
During 1974, in response to the crisis resulting from the OPEC oil embargo, President Richard Nixon signed the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act that imposed a national 55 mph speed limit. radios to let everyone know that while Smokey and the Bandit may not be a very original motor-mayhem movie, it is at least a new one.” Just the sort of review one should expect from a guy named… Van Gelder.īut it was the right movie for its cultural moment. “And just in the event that there is somebody out there incapable of recognizing the difference between a 6.6 liter Trans Am and a Hudson Terraplane or a new Peterbilt rig and a decrepit Reo truck, there is sufficient use of C.B. “This is a movie for audiences capable of slavering over a Pontiac Trans Am, 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs, dismembered police cruisers and motorcycles,” wrote Lawrence Van Gelder in The New York Times review of the movie. Though it’s not like the critics loved it. The stunt work is solid and Mike Henry deserves some love too. Reynolds is at max charm in the blocker black Trans Am, Fields is super-cute, Reed brought great music and astonishing guitar picking in addition to his truck driving, and Gleason supplies most of the hilarity. About a third of the way into filming I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment we kind a looked at each other and we both turned and looked over at Hal, he gave us a thumbs up and said ‘yeah!’ And we kind of knew it was some magic going on.” But then we got Sally on board and it changed the entire dynamic. “It was a bit of a lark when I agreed to do it,” Reynolds recalled in 2015, “and I knew we'd have fun if we could get Gleason. Hal Needham/Smoke and the Bandit Universal
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