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Muscle Cars

posted 19 years ago by JohnnyFontaine
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Anyone know if the recurrent use of late 60's Camaros were symbols for anything Shakespearean?

"Now, Olivier is in that one right?"

[–] lapubell 19 years ago

I have to say, I wonder the same thing. Are the cars symbols for something and if so, what? I mean look at walkens Chevette, while everyone else is driving 67-70 Camaros, what gives?

"Look at the Big Brain on Brad"

[–] openingcredits 19 years ago

Shakespeare himself drove a Camaro.

[–] lapubell 19 years ago

That explains it

"Look at the Big Brain on Brad"

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[–] kingbilly 19 years ago

As a matter of fact, Shakespeare drove a Dodge Caravan. It's well documented. A friend of mine drove a Camaro in the seventies and picked me up every morning for school and got me stoned, so all I really remembered in the 70's were Camaros. That is why I made all the cars Camaros. Although one could say that the repetition and normalcy of Pat and Mac's plight plunged them into a desperate need to grow...

[–] gplechuckIII 18 years ago

For some reason this is my favorite movie to think about after a night of parting. Anyway I highly doubt anyone cares at this point, but hell...

Billy Morissette said that the Camaros were because when he thought about the seventies, when he was a teenager in Connecticut, he thought of Camaros and Bad Company. Which is why there is a lot of both in the movie.

Ringfingers are like the back of car seats. You don't appreciate it untill it's not there.

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[–] BSAKat 18 years ago

Are you kidding me Junior?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevette

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[–] rabacker 17 years ago

For the record, Walkens isn't driving a Chevette, he's driving an Opel Kadet.

[–] Ddhandarah 17 years ago

The motif of nature and unnatural throughout the play is what this is. After Macbeth kills Duncan in the Shakespeare play, certain unnatural phenomena happen such as the darkness of night staying even though it is morning in time and a smaller bird attacking and killing its predator etc. Another occurrence is that Duncan's horses who were the best trained in the land, were bucking and breaking away from the stable. Now, when i think of a muscle car, I think of a Mustang. And what kind of horses are Mustangs?

That's the only connection I can make...

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[–] timdm 13 years ago

I was thinking that maybe they contacted car clubs to find old cars they could use, and maybe there was a Camaro club that was the most willing to let them use their cars.

When I was an extra for "$10,000,000 Getaway" it was because they wanted cars from before some certain (I forget) 80s year. When I showed up in my '78 Buick LeSabre they realized they had four of them and that was too many of a same car for a short scene, so they had me drive the brown Chevy that was also used as the FBI agents car.

My name is Tim, and I'm not wearing any pants!