Five Easy Pieces (6/8) Movie CLIP - You Pompous Celibate! (1970) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
When a haughty intellectual insults Rayette (Karen Black), Bobby (Jack Nicholson) defends his girlfriend with his trademark wit and temper.
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.
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TM & © Sony (1970)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Susan Anspach, Karen Black, Irene Dailey
Director: Bob Rafelson
Producers: Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler, Harold Schneider, Bert Schneider
Screenwriters: Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson
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What makes this movie great is it’s hemingway-like understatement. Bobby is from an upperclass family of musicians, yet he runs away to become a blue collar roughneck. He can’t stand his family, yet at the same time, he can’t really stand his girlfriend, either. The truth is, Bobby doesn’t love himself and so he is unable to love others. There is no nice ending to the film. He and Rayette stop at a gas station to get gas, Rayette goes inside to buy something, and Bobby splits, and gets a ride from a trucker, abandoning his vehicle and Rayette at the gas station. There is no music, nothing, and that’s the end of the film.
True. He hated himself so much that inevitably he heaped it on those close to him and when they rejected him, it became a self fulfilling prophecy that it was the other person's fault.
He forgets his jacket too. On his way to Alaska.
@@constantreader8760 He left it on purpose. The truck driver mentioned his not having a jacket and offered him one. Bobby turned him down. The truck driver told him that it was going to be "cold as hell" but there was no mention of Alaska.
Exactly
A great film for nihilists like me
For all the memorable characters Jack Nicholson has played in his career; Jack Torrance, Jake Gittes, Randall McMurphy, The Joker, etc. (I could go on and on), I feel that Bobby Dupea is his greatest role.
normal
I would be very close to agreeing with you on that!
metal134 He's equally brilliant as David Locke in Antonioni's masterpiece The Passenger (1975).
I'm with you. To my recollection, Jack's only comparable performance, in term of sheer brilliance at capturing a complex character, is as that Shore Patrol NCO in The Last Detail. I can't think of a character more opposite to the one he played here, and he carried both off with equal ease. During a brief golden moment in Hollywood -- the late '60s to the mid-70s -- Jack is among the handful of great actors who made the most of the opportunity to play fully-formed characters in mainstream movies. I'd include Gene Hackman in that small group as well.
without much doubt he nailed it as bobby some might say mcmurphy but this'smore complex
Bobby tells Samnia that she shouldn't even be in the same room as Rayette, yet he himself can barely tolerate being in the same room with his girlfriend. One reasons why he becomes so angry at Samnia is because he knows that he too looks down on Rayette and that this will never change.
Yes he was basically calling out his own character flaws
Although Jack knew he was not in love with her and she wasn’t his type, he knew she had a good heart and as long as she was in his presence he was never gonna let anyone disrespect her and put her down.
Whatever things were wrong with Bobby Dupea, he had a genius instinct for phonies and their bullshit, and he was honest enough and fed up enough to say it to their faces. The thing is, I've known aesthetes and intellectuals who were so completely carried away with their own brilliance and importance, they ceased to be real human beings. Overeducated and underloved. And they would have fit right in with this brilliantly conceived gathering. What satire. Catherine btw walked away from it too, equally fed up. I just love it: "You're totally full of shit . . . you're ALL full of shit!" Wonderful!
DivineSimply interesting hypothesis sir I concur.
"This party is stinkeroo." -- Archie Bunker. And I would have to agree.
Agree! 😊
Sounds like Bobby fulfills many of your repressed aggression toward high IQ people.
You are missing the most interesting aspect of this scene: how Karen Black completely took ownership of it and obscured Jack.
This is how I feel every time I enter a college classroom.
Yeah, you're right.
maybe im not as smart, but intellectualization for the sake of intellectualization is really boring
Amen.
Funny you mention that. A Lit. professor friend of mine in grad school in Boston, a smart, down-to-earth no-bullshit lady, was late meeting me for coffee. When she finally showed up with apologies, she said she was tied up in a faculty meeting, where, she said, "everybody just sat around jerking each other off." Lol.
Ha Ha, I like that!
Thing is Bobby has no problem putting down Rayette himself, but he won't tolerate that pompous windbag doing it.
No kidding. Not even a minute later Bobby tells Rayette to get away from him in an assholish manner. Bobby figures he's belligerent toward Rayette for the "right" reasons and that's fine enough by him.
Yeah Bobby is a hypocrite.
yeah though i love him he is a hypocrite
He's not defending her, he's defending himself.
he also points at her after saying don't point at her, its brilliant
Jack reminds me of Holden Caulfield, all grown up. Everything is fake and bullshit as far as he's concerned.
Perfect comparison! Love it!
Yes. Agreed.
Anti-phony
thats deep. good point...
Yes, he is the victim of his own nihilism, unable to accept the sincere love of the woman carrying his child. Instead, he hitch-hikes away to who knows where. This is a portrayal of a lost soul, whose insight into human weakness has cost him the ability to love. He can only want what he cannot have, and he rejects what is there for him.
This was a fine smackdown of a pompous twit, but Bobby wasn't really at ease with anyone, upperclass or blue collar. He probably once thought a woman like Rayette would be like an honest breath of fresh air until her lack of culture and intellectual limitations got on his nerves.
He really is 30 year old Holden.
He was not defending his girlfriend here, he was not already interested in her. Instead he cared about his brother's girlfriend who just left. This was pure pretence to let go of his frustrations.
Interesting!
Fuckin' Jack Nicholson to the rescue, man!
By far his most underrated and undervalued movie.
Dude! Shut up. I’m so sick of hearing “underrated!” People use it so much that you don’t even know what actually is underrated anymore because people say almost everything is underrated! It’s ridiculous! 😒
@@nsasupporter7557
That's even more true of the term "masterpiece".
@@nsasupporter7557 SO true!
@@bertramwinslowiii2119 thank you for seeing that 🙂
What makes it worse is that alot of people attack me for bringing that up 😣 maybe I’m making too big of a deal about it but it really is weird and abnormal the way people overuse “underrated” so much especially when it’s inaccurate
@@nsasupporter7557 I agree 100%. It's so irritating the way people use "underrated" when they just mean "excellent" or "fantastic". Often it's said about hugely successful people, movies or records. I've seen comments saying Linda Ronstadt, Gordon Lightfoot and Joe Jackson are "underrated". Even Bob Dylan!
Admittedly I just came here to hear Jack say, "You Pompous Celibate!" I wasn't disappointed. But Karen Black was so adorbs, RIP. 😟
The best Jack scene in the movie is inarguably the diner scene. Look it up if you haven't seen it.
@@slimturnpike Oh, I live by that scene! LOL
Jack Nicholson owns every movie he’s in. Anyone thinking otherwise are all full of s***!
He's had some bombs-----The Fortune, Goin' South, Terms of Endearments, to name a few.
@@weirdshibainu Terms of Endearment?? Uhh… no! Do you know how many awards it won and he won best supporting actor for it?
I said don't point at her you Creep !
It was the first and only time that I have ever heard a man call a woman a creep. It really stands out as unique. Wow. He called her a CREEP. That's usually reserved only for men. Neat. It was also--accurate.
Thats what made it so funny . Calling a women a creep . she was a snob
This is how I feel every time I read a Slate, Salon, or Vox article.
Perfect thread! All of you are only pointing out how genius Rafelson's nearly 1/2 century old examination of class in America really is!
There it is! Right on cue, the FOX NEWS! comment.
Fox News =/= Buzzfeed, Huffpo, Slate, Vice, Vox, etc. etc. etc.
The right is objectively in the right.
Just another daytime soap opera. And someone always wants to make it into a grand intellectual achievement.
I kinda wanted the waitress from the diner to rush in at the end and throw chicken salad at him.
He would still tell her its not what he wanted.😂
RIP Karen Black.
Such a beautiful woman.... loved her in “Trilogy of Terror”..
Also Burnt offerings
Jack nicholson makes depressing characters entertaining. Shows how good an actor he was.
Very depressing movie… especially the ending
my favorite scene of the whole movie. so effing badass.
My fav is the one where he tries to leave Karen as she sobs on the bed, gets in the car, can't do it, and furiously returns to get her.
Ralph Waite and Jack Nicholson on the same screen!!!!! Love it!
My boy Jack telling it like it is! :-)
That pompous woman reminds me of my aunt Tema (nee Coodin). Back then 50 odd years ago, there were many more people like that.
Only one actor could steal a scene from Jack, and her name was Karen Black.
YOU, are the caretaker. You’ve always been the caretaker.
I'd almost be willing to lose my job if I could just stand up and call my boss a pompous celibate. What a dream that would be.
This is why people buy lottery tickets.
But consider this: your boss might be delighted to take that opportunity to fire you with complete impunity.
i love this! He's enacting how I feel about my mother'
Best scene in any film ever. This is how I feel around upper-class progressive Ivy League types.
This movie belongs to the 70's genre of New Age Realism Hollywood films. This scene is remeniscent of the movie Network(Dunaway,Holden) with the newsman Howard Biel shouting from the top of his lungs: I am as mad as hell and cannot take it anymore!!! It depicts AMERICA's revolutionary, reactionary spirit. God Bless the USA.
Great comment. I used to watch that Network scene every morningnong with my cuppa coffee. So good, so true ✊
The whole point of that scene was that someone in the media could easily manipulate an audience. It was all phony, and the people fell for it hook, line and sinker.
I happen to agree with the pompous celibate on the topic of love 😆Actually Jack's character should too.
Karen Black had a pair of real roaming eyes.
The Ayn Rand character is just perfect. Liberarians just love her.
Ayn Rand? Now you're full of shit.
Librarians would've told her to shush.
Well said, Jack.
this movie has so many amazing things to sample i love it sm
How I feel when I'm on Reddit.
Everybody in the comments pontificating like that woman. Won't ever realize it
And that is why we love Jack.
Why do I relate to this clip so much?
Liz Matthews - Another World!
When you cant take anymore crap 1:40
I want to do this at work perhaps three times a day.
Ha ha, right? The dream of having Jack's balls and doing this sometimes.
Jack is the man...now and forever
I don't think Bobby cared a damn about Rayette one way or another. His reaction was shock to hear that Catherine and his brother were planning to get married, something that he did not know.
Nothing easy about that piece.
Oh God that was bliss.
the best scene of all time
This is one of my favorite tell off scenes in a film. IMO, it is only topped by Michelle Pfeiffer completely breaking down a witness in "I Am Sam."
Flatter than a tortilla😂
"This Is Love"
And ladies and gentlemen is ACTING. THAT IS JACK.
Your handshake couldn't make a detective of me
i saw this movie but remember little of it except the toasted cheese sammich in the diner
It was a plain omelette with tomatoes, no potatoes on the plate wheat toast and coffee. The cheese sandwich is from a great movie called Duel with Dennis Weaver playing a motorist being terrorised by an insane truck driver.
I didn't know Susan Anspach passed away. She also was beautiful. I loved Karen Black....RIP...
East of west, Jack Nicholson is the best 👍
that's our Jack!
That's reactive!
This is how I feel when I walk in a room full of hypocrites and fakes
And he is a hypocrite too. He looks down on Rayette, he just didn't like someone else doing it.
i wish a jack nicholson
This movie is a lot more better than Misery (1990). Great film.
Thats a pretty random comparison.
Classic 🎉❤
Resonates now
The only thing Bobby realises is that he dislikes everything in his life. Even himself.
He hates himself. So it affects his relationships with everyone.
He likes wheat toast and a cup of coffee.
@@paulcooper5748 And no potatoes on the plate.
SAY FOLKS, WHO'D SET UP THIS FLIMSY, MARITAL CLASS? HUH? 'TIME TA' MOVE THIS JOKER PLEASE! HO HO HO HOAH!!
😹😹
i like that bit bloody toffs
I'm sorry, I don't speak french..
+Lucas Davis I feel you man
Dude,this is cool 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Here’s Johnny
Piled High and Deeper eh?..
Great
Yeah Don't think fools
Preach
Me to my professors
well he sure out marbled her
MRW I have to talk to grad students
Jack, with that last sentence, was talking about today's typical liberal.
Oh absolutely, and when the birds sing in the morning they're singing about how bad the liberals are, and you're not obsessed one bit, it's all the liberals, they're the obsessed ones, not you.
shut up you pompous conservative celibate
i wish jack son 2:18
Very intolerable crowd.
You might be an ignoramus
#shotsfired #rekt #told
When you're in a room full of Trump supporters bragging about how "anti-PC" they are.
When you're in a room full of Clinton supporters bragging about their pandering, SJW horseshit.
Yearinn: 1000 thumbs up! :-D
Mega-Dittos, YearInn
Yeah, because Trump supporters are often hosts of swanky Washington state dinner parties. 11/10 comparison, mate.
Actually liberals talk fake and superficial like that pompous celibate. Vegan, non gmo, California superficial BS. You got it wrong!
this movie is good but this scene is terrible and dated
ChastityChaser Explain.
ChastityChaser "Terrible and dated"?? Since when is puncturing the phoniness of intellectual wannabes "dated"??
U should stick with iron man. This movie is above your taste.
Its suppose to be - Its late 1970 - movies are from the times - that's why we love em
This scene is as relevant and important now, more than ever.
“A rolling stone gathers no moss”
Sometimes you have to tell the room, WTF!
My favorite movie of all time.
Nicholson legend