Walker and Repo Man

[LBernier at tribune.com]

     Best line from the movie (IMHO, bien sur) (and I'm quoting from 
     memory, so apologies in advance if not quite correct)
     
     Dying punk rocker:  "It was society that made me do it!"
     Estevez:  "Bullshit!  You're just another middle-class white suburban 
     punk, just like me!"
     
     Jean, former middle-class white suburban punk, circa 1982.  


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Subject: Walker and Repo Man
Author:  "Craig Clark" <CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA> at Internet_tco
Date:    4/18/97 9:11 AM


Apropos the discussion of Alex Cox's _Walker_ (which I rather enjoyed, 
but then didn't know the Costa Rican version of the story - thanks, 
David Casseres, for the info): I seem to have missed how we got onto 
this film, though I guess the Cuba discussion is an important part of 
it, but P-Listers probably have also seen Cox's earlier and IMHO far 
better film, _Repo Man_. Probably a film closer to the spirit of 
Philip K Dick than any of the mainstream Hollywood film versions of PKD's 
work, and it doesn't claim to be based on a Dick title. Also a 
deliciously Pynchonesque film, with rampant paranoia and bizarre 
conspiracies and oddball characters and great car chases and just 
about everything else...
     
     
Craig Clark
     
"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent 
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"