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Naked girl on Honda? knew K already?


She showed him an old clipping she had of him? Was she supposed to have known him already?..or did they know eachother somehow? He did not recognize her as anyone....Was this just part of the trippy nature of the film or did I miss something?

....or is it just that I wanted to know her..? lol..

All the women he comes across in the movie look similar to the love interest they show in his memories..but not the same girl...

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I had the feeling it was one of two possibilities, either his story of letting the girl escape the dirty molester cop got out and he was a hero, and she knew about him, OR she was that girl. Which would make the whole "you wanna go play" thing rather ironic, that many years later she'd grow up to meet him in the desert, naked and happy.

There's definitely "hero cop" bits in the headline about him being arrested.

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Interesting theory, but on closer inspection...the two girls chests are remarkably different. Nice nevertheless.

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I could be mistaken but wasnt she the girl in the back of the car earlier in the film that the man was trying to rape? Kowalski pulled the guy off her and she got out of the car and took off running.


"Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a Water Buffalo!"

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i don't think it was the same girl.
i think she was part of the public that respected K for standing up to the police corruption...it would've been a big story!
many cops abuse their power (police mafia anyone, Aaron Russo story)
what he did was very brave and it cost him his job!
people get respect for doing what's right!

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Hmm...maybe it was the same girl from the police car...I will have to look again. That would be one hell of a coincidence to find her in the desert years later though - haha....but yeah man odd. We all seem to not really be sure, and maybe that is the point - ? I would think maybe the credits would say "naked girl / girl from police car" or something...

Anyway thanks for the kind replies people.

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Definitely NOT the same girl. The girl in the desert just had a crush on Kowalski for stopping the rape, made the poster board as a tribute to him.

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I was more led to believe that the girl at the petrol station was the one he saved.

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Me too, especially as she looked after him as he drove away in a very special way...

"Damn it Neil, the name is Nuwanda."

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All 70's girls were pretty. Unlike today's artificially created females

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If nothing else,they were more NATURAL then.After this movie,it seems FAKE was all the rage.No make up,no plastic work done....thats a refreshing change.Give me 1970 anyday.

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Wishing there was a "like" button for your and stazza's comments; today's girls are way too fake. Natural and no makeup from those days are much nicer-looking.

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I don't think the petro; station girl was the girl K saved. He didn't recognise her at all. I think she just was attracted to the handsome stranger !

Liberate tute me ex inferis

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None of those girls, ie Petrol Pump or Desert shack were the girl that K saved.

Liberate tute me ex inferis

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I rewatched Vanishing Point last night for the first time in a few years last night and I was thinking much the same thing.

It seems a bit odd that she would have all the clippings and make a homage to him, and that all the other girls in the film look very similar. I think there's definitely more to the film than just a long car chase were he meets a few different random characters.

Or maybe they just wrote in a few unexplainable things to keep things interesting and the casting director had a thing for blond hippy girls?

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No, she just hero-worshipped him when she was younger, and had a collage about him. Kind of like the feelings Meg Tilly's character had towards William Hurt's character in "Big Chill".

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Nude chick on bike had a young school girl crushon kowalski back when ne was an symbol for the anti- estblishment movment. His high profile early rebel is, alternatively the same low profile man he is when we catch up w/ him ----SHE DIDNT KNOW HIM, SHE JUST ADMIRED HIM FROM AFAR!!!!

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I don't think anyone he met during this trip was actually someone from his past; the biker cop, the naked chick, etc. They all brought up flashbacks from his past. He seemed to me to be an individual that is haunted by his past.

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Kowalski had made big time news. He was a medal of honor winner and hero cop that purposely got busted with dope in a protest. To the counter-culture of the 1960's he would have been a hero to many. Obviously he was one to her. You have to put your mind into the 60's/70's, and not 2014 when looking at this. News wasn't saturated and on 24/7... A story like that would have been huge and in all the major newspapers based on Kowalski's past heroics. Yes NEWSPAPERS. It used to be that most major cities had SEVERAL newspapers and if one ran a story like this, you bet they ALL would have. Heck, my home city used to have 3 newspapers, the "star" the "news" and the "times".

And honestly, I think with Kowalski's military and racing background him getting busted would be a story today too, it just wouldn't be as memorable since it would be on to the next story 30 seconds later.



"I don't want your watch, man. I want your friendship!" - Lightfoot

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I think she was supposed to be the one in the police car, but it was poor casting, as the girl in the police car had bigger boobs.

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