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''Drive, He Said'' is a 1971 film written by Jeremy Larner and Creator/JackNicholson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] a 1964 novel by Larner and directed by Nicholson in his directorial debut.
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''Drive, He Said'' is a 1971 drama film written by Jeremy Larner and Creator/JackNicholson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] a 1964 novel by Larner and directed by Nicholson in his directorial debut.
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Hector Bloom (William Tepper) is a college basketball player struggling with disenchantment. He keeps showing up late to practice and playing below his abilities, despite the efforts of Coach Bullion (Creator/BruceDern) to encourage him. He is also dealing with his roommate Gabriel (Michael Margotta), a barely-sane drug addict obsessed with the counterculture, and having an affair with Olive (Creator/KarenBlack), the wife of his professor Richard (Creator/RobertTowne).
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Hector Bloom (William Tepper) is a college basketball player struggling with disenchantment. He disenchantment, who keeps showing up late to practice and playing below beneath his abilities, despite abilities in spite of the efforts of Coach Bullion (Creator/BruceDern) to encourage him. He is also dealing with his roommate Gabriel (Michael Margotta), a barely-sane drug addict obsessed with the counterculture, and having an affair with Olive (Creator/KarenBlack), the wife of his professor Richard (Creator/RobertTowne).
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* CreatorCameo: Creator/JackNicholson appears during the military draft scene as a bearded guy wearing sunglasses.
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''Drive, He Said'' is a 1971 film written by Jeremy Larner and Creator/JackNicholson, based on a 1964 novel by Larner, and directed by Nicholson in his directorial debut.
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''Drive, He Said'' is a 1971 film written by Jeremy Larner and Creator/JackNicholson, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based
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* MaleFrontalNudity: A locker room scene with the basketball team early in the movie, and an extended scene with Gabriel towards the end.
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* HomeNudist: Gabriel's girlfriend Sylvie (Creator/JuneFairchild) sits naked nearby while Gabriel watches TV.
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* HomeNudist: Gabriel's girlfriend Sylvie (Creator/JuneFairchild) (June Fairchild) sits naked nearby while with Gabriel watches while they watch TV.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Gabriel eventually becomes one.
-->'''Gabriel''': Do you know what we're doing while they're parading? We're being sterilized by the death ray. Our brains are literally being electrified into neon gas by this piece of history.… They faked the whole goddamn moon shot in Phoenix! Do you hear that, paper people of America?
-->'''Gabriel''': Do you know what we're doing while they're parading? We're being sterilized by the death ray. Our brains are literally being electrified into neon gas by this piece of history.… They faked the whole goddamn moon shot in Phoenix! Do you hear that, paper people of America?
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* HomeNudist: Gabriel's girlfriend Sylvie (Creator/JuneFairchild) sits naked nearby while Gabriel watches TV.
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* ShootTheTelevision: Gabriel takes a samurai sword to his TV set, "the instrument of death of our times," then hits and kicks it and beats it with a chair.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Gabriel tells [[spoiler:the security guards and orderlies sent to arrest him]], "I'm sane, I'm right, and I'm sane. I'm right and I'm sane."
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* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe example. When Easly is asked why he plays basketball, he answers, "For the bread."
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* OutsideRide: [[spoiler:When Gabriel is carted off to a mental hospital, Hector runs after the ambulance and clings onto the back. He's quickly pulled off.]]
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* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: [[spoiler:Gabriel tells Olive that he knows she wants it. She pretends to go along with it so he'll let his guard down, allowing her to fight him off.]]
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* {{Streaking}}: [[spoiler:Gabriel runs naked across campus to the biology lab.]]
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* BathtubScene: Olive relaxes in the bathtub, listening to music. [[spoiler:Until Gabriel shows up.]]
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* FreeTheFrogs: [[spoiler:During his psychotic break, Gabriel frees all the animals in the biology lab. He tells a skull, "Too late, colleagues, too late."]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler:Gabriel and Olive hit at each other with marble busts.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler:Gabriel and Olive hit at each other with marble busts.]]
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Gabriel breaks into Olive's home and tries to rape her. She fights him off and runs outside screaming for help, where Richard and Hector both show up.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Gabriel's attempts at ObfuscatingInsanity to avoid the draft end up badly damaging his mental health for real.
* TaeKwonDoor: [[spoiler:Olive hides in a closet from Gabriel. When he's outside her door, she flings it open, hitting him, and runs away.]]
* TaeKwonDoor: [[spoiler:Olive hides in a closet from Gabriel. When he's outside her door, she flings it open, hitting him, and runs away.]]
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* DraftDodger: In the days leading up to his induction physical, Gabriel subjects himself to SleepDeprivation. When the day comes, he behaves in as disruptive a manner as possible, eventually getting kicked out for brawling with a doctor.
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* DraftDodger: In the days leading up to his induction physical, Gabriel subjects himself to SleepDeprivation. When the day comes, he behaves in as disruptive a manner as possible, eventually getting kicked out for brawling with a doctor.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:Olive thinks her baby is Hector's, but she doesn't know for sure.]]
* MatchCut: Between Hector shooting a basketball on the court and one player tossing a grapefruit to another in the cafeteria.
* MatchCut: Between Hector shooting a basketball on the court and one player tossing a grapefruit to another in the cafeteria.
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* ItsAllMyFault: When Hector slugs an opponent, Bullion decides that it was his fault for being too easy on Hector, when he would only understand toughness.
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* WavingSignsAround: Fans of the OpposingSportsTeam stand in front of the Leopards' bus with a huge banner that says "LEOPARDS ARE PUSSIES." During the game, they wave signs with puns on the players' names, like "It ain't Easly" and "Lower the Bloom."
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* TitleDrop: The movie opens with Gabriel watching basketball on TV and reciting the Creator/RobertCreeley poem "I Know a Man," which includes the title.
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''Drive, He Said'' is a 1971 film written by Jeremy Larner and Creator/JackNicholson, based on a 1964 novel by Larner, and directed by Nicholson in his directorial debut.
Hector Bloom (William Tepper) is a college basketball player struggling with disenchantment. He keeps showing up late to practice and playing below his abilities, despite the efforts of Coach Bullion (Creator/BruceDern) to encourage him. He is also dealing with his roommate Gabriel (Michael Margotta), a barely-sane drug addict obsessed with the counterculture, and having an affair with Olive (Creator/KarenBlack), the wife of his professor Richard (Creator/RobertTowne).
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!!''Drive, He Said'' contains examples of:
* AutoErotica: Hector and Olive have sex in the front seat of a car, with her clutching the steering wheel.
* BangFlagGun: When Gabriel's guerrilla theater troupe hijacks a basketball game to protest UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, one member puts a gun to an Asian woman's head, which fires out an American flag.
* TitleDrop: The movie opens with Gabriel watching basketball on TV and reciting the Creator/RobertCreeley poem "I Know a Man," which includes the title.
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Hector Bloom (William Tepper) is a college basketball player struggling with disenchantment. He keeps showing up late to practice and playing below his abilities, despite the efforts of Coach Bullion (Creator/BruceDern) to encourage him. He is also dealing with his roommate Gabriel (Michael Margotta), a barely-sane drug addict obsessed with the counterculture, and having an affair with Olive (Creator/KarenBlack), the wife of his professor Richard (Creator/RobertTowne).
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!!''Drive, He Said'' contains examples of:
* AutoErotica: Hector and Olive have sex in the front seat of a car, with her clutching the steering wheel.
* BangFlagGun: When Gabriel's guerrilla theater troupe hijacks a basketball game to protest UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, one member puts a gun to an Asian woman's head, which fires out an American flag.
* TitleDrop: The movie opens with Gabriel watching basketball on TV and reciting the Creator/RobertCreeley poem "I Know a Man," which includes the title.
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