Boundary point zero

Boundary point zero ( Vanishing Not ) is a American Road movie of Richard C. Sarafian carried out in 1971.

Synopsis

Kowalski is a former cop and old driver of race. It convoie maintaining cars in all the country. He bets to deliver a Dodge Challenger R/T of Denver (Colorado) to San Francisco California (more 1.500 km) in fifteen hours. It is taken in hunting by the police force, then engages a track race through the various crossed states. He constant and is guided in his race by a black radio operator organizer and blind man, Super Drunk.

Comment

Track race a one hour and half, with truths pieces of anthology of the Years 1970, such as for example a nude woman on a motor bike in the desert. The radio presenter, black, plug Super Drunk person (Super heart), is a lit truth for which Kowalski is the last American free spirit vis-a-vis the brutal and avenger police force. The program FM of Super Drunk person will guide it, be its compass and its conscience through the Contre-culture of the United States of the Seventies. This film has a little the spirit Easy Rider except that the car replaces the motor bikes and the speed for the marijuana. An existential film, 8 years before Mad max …

Behind the kind Road movie, Boundary point zero is especially a reflection on the course of a man and the time of its decision which will lead it to the Suicide. The original title, as the realization shows it (dissolve of the cars of the flashback) is right in the spirit. It is one vague moment, an unspecified point, where any rocker.

The film is gigantic a Flashback, the action lasting only 2 minutes of the Sunday the 10th h02 at the beginning of film, at the Sunday the 10th h04 at the end of film. The flashback being spread out over the 2 previous days (Friday the 23rd h30).

Data sheet

Title: Boundary point zero
original Title: Vanishing Not
Realization: Richard C. Sarafian
Scenario: Guillermo Cain on a subject of Malcolm Binder
Photography: John A. Alonzo
Music: Jimmy Bowen (song Sing Out For Jesus of Kim Edges)
Production: Norman Spencer
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Colors (DeLuxe), 1,85:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: Road movie
Lasted: 98 minutes
Coming out date: January 15th 1971 (the United States), May 12th 1971 (France)

Distribution

Barry Newman : Kowalski
Cleavon Little : Super Drunk person, the DJ
Dean Jagger: prospector and hunter of snakes
Victoria Medlin: Vera Thornton
Paul Koslo: Charlie (young police officer)
Robert To give: Hakes (older police officer)
Timothy Scott: Angel
Gilda Texter : motarde naked
Anthony James: motorcyclist n°1
Arthur Malet: motorcyclist n°2
Karl Swenson: Sandy (Argo' S Because Delivery)
Severn Darden: Jessie Hovah
singers at J. Hovah: Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Rita Coolidge)
Lee Weaver: Jake (drug pusher in Denver)
Cherished Foster: girl n°1
Valerie Kairys: girl n°2
Tom Reese: sheriff
Owen Bush: officer of communication
John Amos: assistant of Super Drunk person
David Gates: pianist

Around film

Charlotte Rampling turned a scene where it is hitch-hiker, but the scene was cut to the assembly.
an edulcorated version of film exists, in particular for the diffusions in video and on television American, whose two sequences are withdrawn: that where the police officer tries to misuse the girl to the back of his car, and that of the naked girl with motor bike.
In the audio comment of the DVD, the realizer justifies the white color of the car by a will of better visibility compared to the plane backs, and not in any concern symbolic system.

See too

the film was turned in only 28 days by a team limited to 19 people.
8 Dodge Challenger were absorbed during the turning of the insane scenes of continuation.
the film left the same year as two-track Macadam ( Two-Lane Blacktop ), other Road movie where the continuation the speed concluded by the same result. However, in spite of the automobile set of themes and their common disillusioned report, the two visions are expressed very differently. Humor, environment post-hippie and the higher bid with work in Boundary point zero leave room with dark dumbness and the desincarnation of the heroes of two-track Macadam . One is festive and Community even if it is completed on empalement sacrificial release when the other is an account minimalist close to documentary without comment. However in two films, only the present one has a value.
the characters of the film Boulevard of Dead the of Quentin Tarantino make with many recoveries reference to Boundary point zero and in particular in Dodge Challenger of the hero whom they use at the time of the last continuation. One can also think that K-Billy in Reservoir Dogs is a reference to Super Drunk person, the DJ which rate/rhythm the quète of Kowalski.
the Departure of Jerzy Skolimowski
Road movie

External bonds

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