Five Easy Pieces (2/8) Movie CLIP - Freeway Performance (1970) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Trapped in a traffic jam, Bobby (Jack Nicholson) jumps onto the back of a truck and starts playing the piano in an impromptu freeway performance.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) and bowling with their friends Elton (Billy "Green" Bush) and Stoney (Fannie Flagg). Feeling suffocated by responsibilities, Bobby seeks out his sister, Tita (Lois Smith), and, discovering that his father is gravely ill, he reluctantly heads back to the patrician family compound in Puget Sound with a pregnant Rayette in tow. After a road trip featuring a harangue from hitchhiker Palm (Helena Kallianiotes) about filth, and Bobby's ill-fated attempt to make a menu substitution in a diner, he tucks Rayette away in a motel before heading to the house. There Bobby seduces his uptight brother Carl's cultured fiancée, Catherine (Susan Anspach), but Rayette shows up unexpectedly. As Rayette's crassness collides with the snobbery of the Dupea circle, Bobby loses patience with both sides. After trying to reconcile with his mute father, Bobby departs, unwilling to give in to either destiny. Director Bob Rafelson and screenwriter Adrien Joyce (aka Carole Eastman) used the creative control afforded by the low budget to craft a European-influenced character study, catching a cultural mood of anomie and resentment as it was embodied in Bobby. Neither older generation nor hippie, Bobby fits in nowhere, and his desire for independence conflicts with his emotional emptiness. Nicholson's nuanced performance of simmering frustration resonated with 1970 audiences caught between Nixon's "silent majority" and the troubled counterculture; a substantial hit, Five Easy Pieces was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and established Nicholson as a star. Offering no "easy" answers to Bobby's existential crisis, Five Easy Pieces is one of the pre-eminent films in the early-'70s cycle of alienated American art movies, as even the fantasy of rebellion is reduced to merely running away.

CREDITS:
TM & © Sony (1970)
Cast: Billy Green Bush, Jack Nicholson
Director: Bob Rafelson
Producers: Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler, Harold Schneider, Bert Schneider
Screenwriters: Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson

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[MorganEarlJones]

This movie is probably one of the best feel-bad movies I've ever seen.

[bentonxavier]

Jack Nicholson confronting a dog is the best thing I've seen from him.

[typicallyanobody]

0:30 That's the best thing I've seen.
Nicholson fighting a dog.

[frankmilitary]

Jack Nicholson is a goddamned treasure!!

[germainedonnie]

I'll be wondering where Trevor got his ideas from from Grand Theft Auto 5

[StudioSerious]

Only Jack can be so classy in responding to a dog 😄

[Cruusher]

It was easier back in those days to act with such spontaneity and creativity, and not freak people out. These days, peeps would go into a panic, or start filming and up- loading material, get angry or call the cops..

[SB-eufr]

That dog scene made my fuxking day lmao 🤣

[BrookeWaters-xuko]

It’s almost like Falling Down freeway traffic jam scene with Michael Douglas 😊

[arserobinson]

I love how the truck drives off in the opposite direction to where Jack wants to go

[Survivor-n]

Best stuff from any Jack picture!!!😎😎😎

[larryhutton]

I want one of each of those cars in that clip

[adrianamatlack]

Has to be in my top 20 movies, maybe 15, lets see, Alien, Return Of the Living Dead ( same writer as Alien!), The Fog, The Paper Chase, Casino, Nixon, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, The Shining, Founder, Clock Work Orange, 2010 Space Odyseey, I Claudius, TV show but might as be a long movie, Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, The Pianist, Amityville Horror 3, Born On The Fourth of July to name a few.

[Kuzey]

I like how everyone is just mindlessly honking as if it's going to change anything

[alphamaledriveshard]

The movie should have ended here with him leaving everything behind. Haha.

[DesertRat]

You want the dog? You can't handle the dog!

[madameweasel]

Heh, the audience probably thought Nicholson was just going to bang on the piano like a mischievous little kid, not play Chopin!

[TheHypnotstCollector]

This must be highway 99 because I don't think highway 5 was completed to here in 1970.   In 1970 I tried to drive an XKE up 5, my map said it was complete.  When the pavement ended I kept going.  An hour or so later I got stuck on one of the many water bars I had to slide over. It was 2 AM.  Finally a truck came by and I was off to lovely Fireball, on hwy 33. Then up and over the mountain at Patterson and Into San Jose via Mt Hamilton, that was about 40 miles of dirt road, too. (hwy 43 is now 46)

[juliusceasar]

road looks pretty much the same or like any exit on 5

[scottjackson]

Love this movie. Perfect for Jack Nicholson. 😂