"Five Easy Pieces" is one of the best American films of the seventies;
perhaps it is one of the greatest of all American films. It not only
confirmed Jack Nicholson as a star but also one of the great actors and
his Bobby Dupea is one of the key performances in all of cinema, a great
anti-hero and Nicholson does nothing to make him likeable. It was also
the film that should have marked out Bob Rafelson as one of the
potentially great American directors but apart from the very
underrated "The King of Marvin Gardens", (also with Nicholson), and
perhaps his version of "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
(again with
Nicholson), his has been a career that hasn't really amounted to much.
Of course, this had a great screenplay by Adrien Joyce (aka Carole
Eastman) and the Chicken Salad Sandwich scene and the performance of
Helena Kallianiotes as the lesbian hitchiker are much quoted. Indeed
you could say it was a profound coming together of a number of
remarkable talents and it has stood the test of time brilliantly.
Indeed it gets better with every viewing; a true classic.
"Five Easy Pieces" is one of the best American films of the seventies;
perhaps it is one of the greatest of all American films. It not only
confirmed Jack Nicholson as a star but also one of the great actors and
his Bobby Dupea is one of the key performances in all of cinema, a great
anti-hero and Nicholson does nothing to make him likeable. It was also
the film that should have marked out Bob Rafelson as one of the
potentially great American directors but apart from the very
underrated "The King of Marvin Gardens", (also with Nicholson), and
perhaps his version of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" 
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