MovieChat Forums > The Last American Hero (1973) Discussion > What a dumb title.

What a dumb title.

posted 15 years ago by screamingfoot
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I saw this as a kid on TV and it was titled "Hard Driver."

What "Last American Hero" has to do with this movie, I'll never know but it's a pretty cool little film.

[–] DualQuadDave 15 years ago

The title came from an Esquire magazine article titled "The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson" by Tom Wolfe.

I'm a rollin' daddy with a mean machine,
It's got a V-8 motor and it shore is keen...

[–] screamingfoot 15 years ago

Nobody who would watch a film about a stock car racer knows or cares who Tom Wolfe is.

The title makes NO sense. It might have made sense for the magazine article, but it doesn't for this film.

[–] SunCanyonRoad 10 years ago

***YAWN***

You're simply not educated on the history of stock car racing or hall of famer Junior Johnson.

The title isn't "dumb" at all. You however come across as "dumb" with blanket, uneducated statements.

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

[–] SurvivorAlpha10 14 years ago

I think the name is fine.

My Sig: Nothing Here.

[–] sixpackrt 12 years ago

"The last American hero to whom speed means feedom of the soul..."

-Super Soul

"I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh."

[–] WarpedRecord 11 years ago

I think the title works just fine, and I watched a film about stock car racing and know and care who Tom Wolfe is.

But I do get this title mixed up with the TV series "The Greatest American Hero," which came a few years later.

[–] Fred-333 9 years ago

Don't you people know you are talking with "Screamingfoot" - what a dumb f—ing name.