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The Meat Truck

posted 16 years ago by baprice14
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Did anyone notice what the meat truck said on the back? I'm not watching it right now, but it said something like "Hi-Pro Meat Packing Co., USED Cows"! I thought that this was really strange when I first saw it (as I didn't know what was going on at that point in the movie). But now it seems just as strange. Of course it fits into the theme/plot of the movie, though I don't think that anybody was being recycled Soylent Green style as it seemed someone was suggesting in another thread. But now it is just this bizarre yet obviously fitting detail that I notice.

[–] baprice14 11 years ago

I'm going to bump this in honor of the very recent Criterion release of Seconds :)

Tendrils of Obfuscation

[–] cinetudes 10 years ago

Frankenheimer mentions in his commentary of the film that the company name is the actual one of the slaughterhouse where they shot. The boss of the slaughterhouse plays the guy the guides the hero through the factory and drives him in the truck.