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* CharacterizingSittingPose: Rayette has two scenes where she is shown grooming herself while sitting on top of bathroom sinks. And not wide countertop-style sinks either, but basic sink basins jutting from the walls. It shows how she is preoccupied with how her boyfriend Bobby and others see her, but also how she is ignorant of social etiquette that those above her class would know about.
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--> '''Waitress:''' You want me to hold the chicken, huh?\\
'''Bobby:''' I want you to hold it between your ''knees.''
'''Bobby:''' I want you to hold it between your ''knees.''
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Very much averted in the diner scene.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Robert Eroica Dupea, Palm Apodaca.
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* BespectacledCutie: Partita wears glasses in some scenes, which with her shy demeanor and somewhat {{Ingenue}}-ish personality, gives her this persona.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Partita wears glasses in some scenes, which with her shy demeanor and somewhat {{Ingenue}}-ish personality, gives her this persona.
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* WakingUpElsewhere: To escape from the tension at the Dupea estate, Robert hops on a ferry back to the mainland, goes to a bar, gets drunk, and wakes up the next morning laying on the dock. The nods of familiarity he gets at the bar hint that this was a fairly regular routine for him in the days before he left the island.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Dupeas are a remarkable mix of QuirkyHousehold and DysfunctionalFamily. They live on a secluded island, basically in their own little music-obsessed world. Apart from Robert's many issues, his father was apparently a forceful personality in his prime, but now he's physically and mentally impaired from a stroke. Robert's sister Tita is carrying on an illicit affair with her father's male nurse. He brother Carl is very arrogant but also extremely emasculated, and his wife Catherine ultimately has a fling with Robert.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Dupeas are a remarkable mix of QuirkyHousehold and DysfunctionalFamily. They live on a secluded island, basically in their own little music-obsessed world. Apart from Robert's many issues, his father was apparently a forceful personality in his prime, but now he's physically and mentally impaired from a stroke. Robert's sister Tita is carrying on an illicit affair with her father's male nurse. He His brother Carl is very arrogant but also extremely emasculated, and his wife Catherine ultimately has a fling with Robert.
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** Rafelson's follow-up film ''Film/TheKingOfMarvinGardens'' hits a lot of the same story beats, but in a more stylized, surreal way, with Nicholson basically playing a DistaffCounterpart to Partita, and Creator/BruceDern as a variation on Robert.
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** Rafelson's follow-up film ''Film/TheKingOfMarvinGardens'' hits likewise is about a lot of the same story beats, but in a BlackSheep who reluctantly gets drawn back into his family's drama, only Nicholson's lead character is more stylized, surreal way, with Nicholson basically playing like a DistaffCounterpart to Partita, and Creator/BruceDern as a variation on Robert.while his brother (played by Creator/BruceDern) is more reflective of Robert's extroverted side.
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* AllThereInTheScript: The earlier drafts of the screenplay spelled out some more detail about Robert and his past, suggesting that the death of his mother spurred on his alienation from his family. In the final film, it's obvious that Nicholas Dupea is a widower, but otherwise we don't learn anything about Mrs. Dupea.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Dupeas. Few cinema families can touch them in terms of both size and dysfunction. They live on a secluded island, basically in their own little music-obsessed world. Apart from Robert's many issues, his father was apparently a forceful personality in his prime, but now he's physically and mentally impaired from a stroke. Robert's sister Tita is carrying on an illicit affair with her father's male nurse. He brother Carl is very arrogant but also extremely emasculated, and his wife Catherine ultimately has a fling with Robert.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Dupeas. Few cinema families can touch them in terms Dupeas are a remarkable mix of both size QuirkyHousehold and dysfunction.DysfunctionalFamily. They live on a secluded island, basically in their own little music-obsessed world. Apart from Robert's many issues, his father was apparently a forceful personality in his prime, but now he's physically and mentally impaired from a stroke. Robert's sister Tita is carrying on an illicit affair with her father's male nurse. He brother Carl is very arrogant but also extremely emasculated, and his wife Catherine ultimately has a fling with Robert.
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* HairTriggerTemper: A defining trait of Robert, exemplified in the diner scene, but occasionally it leads to actual physical violence, like when he fights the law enforcement agents who arrest Elton, and goes after Spicer the male nurse when he catches him canoodling with Tita.
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: After a few hints that Partita and her father's male nurse (Spicer) might be having a fling behind the family's back, Robert walks in on them in bed together (he seems to be giving her some kind of erotic massage) and immediately tries to attack Spicer. Unfortunately for Robert, the bigger and more muscular Spicer doesn't have too much trouble beating him back down.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/EasyRider''. Also a road movie, same production company, several of the same cast members. The main difference is that it's about alienation in mainstream society instead of the alienation of the counterculture.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: SpiritualSuccessor:
** To ''Film/EasyRider''. Also a road movie, same production company, several of the same cast members. The main difference is that it's about alienation in mainstream society instead of the alienation of the counterculture.
** Rafelson's follow-up film ''Film/TheKingOfMarvinGardens'' hits a lot of the same story beats, but in a more stylized, surreal way, with Nicholson basically playing a DistaffCounterpart to Partita, and Creator/BruceDern as a variation on Robert.
** To ''Film/EasyRider''. Also a road movie, same production company, several of the same cast members. The main difference is that it's about alienation in mainstream society instead of the alienation of the counterculture.
** Rafelson's follow-up film ''Film/TheKingOfMarvinGardens'' hits a lot of the same story beats, but in a more stylized, surreal way, with Nicholson basically playing a DistaffCounterpart to Partita, and Creator/BruceDern as a variation on Robert.
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* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Robert Eroica Dupea, with his middle name obviously taken from the nickname for Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's third symphony. Also an IronicName, since it means "heroic" in Italian, and Robert is one of the most definitive examples of an {{Antihero}} in the history of American cinema.
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* YouNeedToGetLaid: Sort of a genteel version of this when Robert calls Samia, the philosophy-spouting dinner guest who insults Rayette, a "pompous celibate".
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A 1970 drama film that marked Creator/JackNicholson's transition from promising character actor to [[StarMakingRole outright movie star]]. One of the early films of the so-called "American new wave" that flourished in the early 1970s, it featured flawed and often unsympathetic characters, idiosyncratic dialogue, and an ending that did not offer any conventional resolution. The plot involves Robert Dupea, an oil rig worker living with his waitress girlfriend, who returns to his family's estate and must face his past after his father becomes ill.
Directed and co-written by Creator/BobRafelson, the film also stars Creator/KarenBlack, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Creator/RalphWaite, Creator/SallyStruthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Creator/LoisSmith, and Helen Kallianiotes.
Directed and co-written by Creator/BobRafelson, the film also stars Creator/KarenBlack, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Creator/RalphWaite, Creator/SallyStruthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Creator/LoisSmith, and Helen Kallianiotes.
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A 1970 drama film that marked Creator/JackNicholson's transition from promising character actor to [[StarMakingRole outright movie star]]. One of the early films of the so-called "American new wave" that flourished in the early 1970s, it featured flawed and often unsympathetic characters, idiosyncratic dialogue, and an ending that did not offer any conventional resolution. The plot involves It follows Robert Dupea, an Dupea (Nicholson), a California oil rig worker living with his waitress girlfriend, who girlfriend Rayette (Creator/KarenBlack), a diner waitress. When his sister Partita (Creator/LoisSmith) informs him that their father is ill, he returns to his family's estate and must to face his past after father, his father becomes ill.
brother Carl (Creator/RalphWaite) and his own chaotic past.
Directed and co-written by Creator/BobRafelson,the film it also stars Creator/KarenBlack, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Creator/RalphWaite, Creator/SallyStruthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Creator/LoisSmith, fame) and Helen Helena Kallianiotes.
Directed and co-written by Creator/BobRafelson,
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The film doesn't come out and say that hitchhikers Palm and Terry are a lesbian couple, but it's easy to interpret them as such.
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Directed and co-written by Creator/BobRafelson, the film also stars Creator/KarenBlack, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Creator/SallyStruthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Lois Smith, and Helen Kallianiotes.
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Directed and co-written by Creator/BobRafelson, the film also stars Creator/KarenBlack, Susan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Creator/RalphWaite, Creator/SallyStruthers, Toni Basil (later of "Mickey" fame), Lois Smith, Creator/LoisSmith, and Helen Kallianiotes.
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* AntiHero: Robert is a selfish, nasty person who has no affection for anyone.
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* ChickMagnet: Robert attracts the affections of Betty and Twinky at the bowling alley, and later his brother's student[=/=]lover Catherine.
* CreatorCameo: DirectorBob Rafaelson Creator/BobRafelson is the man going into the elevator at the recording studio.
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* {{Dramedy}}: At heart it's a drama, and leans heavily into that in the last act, but between Creator/JackNicholson perfecting his DeadpanSnarker tendencies as Robert, Rayette's ditziness, and Palm's inane babbling, there are some solid laughs along the way.
* InTheStyleOf: The film's director and co-writer, Creator/BobRafelson, has often spoken of his admiration for Creator/YasujiroOzu, and this film is probably best viewed as a UsefulNotes/NewHollywood take on Ozu's style, especially the examination of parent-child themes.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The memorable closing shot of the lonely gas station, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, after Robert abandons Rayette.
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* RealityHasNoSoundtrack: The film lacks a score, with a handful of Tammy Wynette songs and some classical pieces being the only music.
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* DisappearedDad: Robert is on his way to become one after he abandons Rayette and her unborn child at a gas station in the end.
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** Robert is on his way to become one after he abandons Rayette and her unborn child at a gas station in the end.
** Elton's arrest separates him from his young child.
** Robert is on his way to become one after he abandons Rayette and her unborn child at a gas station in the end.
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