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coke truck color

posted 19 years ago by ken_gewertz
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I've seen this movie twice, and there appeared to be two different versions of the final scene where a Coca Cola delivery man, played by a very young Mark Hamill, drives up to the motel. In one version I saw, the truck was red, and in the other it was yellow. Color symbolism seems to be very important in the movie--consider Shelley Duvall's obsession with yellow and all the red blood when Janice Rule gives birth--so I can imagine that Altman may have re-envisioned the ending. But has anyone else noticed this variation, or was I hallucinating?

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[–] maidazia 19 years ago

The delivery man was played by Dennis Christopher in an uncredited appearance.

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[–] ndatmo-1 18 years ago

I remember attending a seminar with Roger Ebert at the Los Angeles Film Exposition w-a-y back. It was a series on Favorites of Film Critics.

The subject of the yellow Coke truck came up and I think it was just in deference to the fact that the whole film was based on a dream that Robert Altman had.

[–] mhsmith84 18 years ago

You may have been hallucinating but I have always thought that the yellow truck was something that stood out very garishly, as did so many aspect of the movie that toyed with perception and reality. And it wasn't Mark Hamill, it was Dennis Christopher.