1 | * AluminumChristmasTrees: |
2 | ** The journey of the {{cowboy}}-like motorcyclist in the opening scene to deliver reels of film to the studio (this was before TV cameramen had satellite hookup) chronicles some random car crash. Film at 11. |
3 | ** Most poverty in America at the time, including inner-city poverty, was (and still is, in many places) white. |
4 | ** The depiction of the DNC protestors, being footage of the actual protest, features few {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s; the crowd is mostly [[BombThrowingAnarchists clean-shaven radicals]] and college students. |
5 | %%* {{Anvilicious}}: The film's message. |
6 | %%** Of course, it's a complicated message about media exploitation of real life {{conflict}} for entertainment [[RealityTV (which obviously went unheeded)]]. |
7 | * DoNotDoThisCoolThing: As mentioned, the message is about media exploitation of real life violence for entertainment. The medium is... a film that uses a police riot as a stage for actors to walk around in. |
8 | * HarsherInHindsight: The film's central message ''(see: noun, [[RealityTV reality television]]).'' |
9 | ** The lyrics from the page quote were written three years before Kent State, although people got killed in '68 as well. |
10 | * RetroactiveRecognition: |
11 | ** Creator/PeterBoyle as the owner of a gun range. |
12 | ** Peter Bonerz, who went on to play Jerry on ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'', as Gus, John's sound man. |
13 | * TearJerker: The MLK retrospective that the protagonists watch on TV. |
14 | * UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A prime example of a film that draws a lot of its power from being this. Everything that happens is all the more extraordinary knowing that the Chicago rioting really was going on in the background. |
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