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Two Lane Blacktop is a movie released in 1971 that follows the story of two drag racers that live both life both on the edge, and on the road in their 1955 Chevy Bel Air. The pair make their living by challenging the residents of the towns they come across to races. Their journey takes them East, starting from Needles, California on the historic Route 66.
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 road movie directed by Monte Hellman, starring singer-songwriter James Taylor, Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird. Esquire magazine declared the film its movie of the year for 1971, and even published the entire screenplay in its April, 1971 issue, but the film was not a commercial success. The film has since become a cult classic. Brock Yates, organizer of the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (better known as the Cannonball Run) cites Two-Lane Blacktop as one source of inspiration for the creation of the race, and commented on it in his Car and Driver column announcing the first Cannonball.
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Two-Lane Blacktop is notable as a time capsule film of U.S. Route 66 during the pre-Interstate Highway era, and for its stark footage and minimal dialogue. As such it has become popular with fans of Route 66. Two-Lane Blacktop has been compared to similar road movies with an existentialist message from the era, such as Vanishing Point, Easy Rider, and Electra Glide in Blue.
Hellman shot almost the entire script as written. The first cut of the film was three-and-a-half hours long.[2] He was his own editor: I can't look over someone's shoulder. I need my hand on the brake .[6] He had final cut but was contractually obligated to deliver a film no longer than two hours. The final version ran 105 minutes.[2] In their April 1971 cover story, Esquire magazine proclaimed Two-Lane Blacktop, film of the year .[4] Hellman thought that the Esquire article would be good publicity for the film but in hindsight would not have done it because I think it raised people's expectations. They couldn't accept the movie for what it was .[3] There was a lot of advanced buzz about the film but Lew Wasserman, then head of the studio, saw the film and hated it. He refused to promote it and when it opened in New York City on the Fourth of July weekend, there was not one single newspaper ad promoting it.[4]
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