Saw Five Easy Pieces at Film Forum last night.
Favorite part pasted below (and ripped from here).
It’s the brilliant lead-in to the famous Diner scene.
EXT. BOBBY'S CAR - NORTHERN HIGHWAY - DAY (COUNTRY & WESTERN INSTRUMENTAL OVER:) ON THE CAR moving through the Redwood country above San Francisco. INT. BOBBY'S CAR - HIGHWAY - DAY ON BOBBY bored, as he drives. Beside him, Rayette primps in the sunvisor mirror. ON THE BACK SEAT Terry lights a cigarette while Palm, staring morosely out the window, goes into a soliloquy: PALM I had to leave this place. I got depressed, seeing all the crap. And the thing is, they're making more crap, you know? They've got so many stores and stuff and junk full of crap, I can't believe it. BOBBY Who? PALM Who? People, that's who! Pretty soon there won't be room for anyone. They're selling more crap that people go and buy than you can imagine. Oofh! Crap! I believe everybody should have a big hole where they throw in all this stuff and burn it. Rayette leans around to her. RAYETTE There'd never be a hole big enough. Now took at me, for instance, when I was just one person, before Bobby, I had so much garbage collectin' onto me every day, I was thinkin' about gettin a dispose all... PALM A dispose-all, what's that but more crap? I've never seen such crap. Oofh, I don't know how people get up in the morning. TERRY Mass production is what does it. PALM What do you mean "mass"... I have to come out and tell you, you're not that clean, either. TERRY Wait a minute. I'm not that neat, maybe, but I am clean. PALM Well, you're not that bad, but some people... I mean, people's homes, just filth. I've been in people's homes... TERRY In my personal observation, I think that more people are neat than are clean... PALM In my personal thing, I don't see that. I'm seeing more filth. A lot of filth. What they need to do every day, no, once in a while, is a cockroach thing, where they spray the homes. And uh... can you imagine, if their doors were painted a pretty color, and they had a pot outside, with... TERRY Yeah, it could be adorable... PALM And they picked up! I mean, it wouldn't be filthy, with Coke bottles and whiskey, and those signs everywhere... She gestures angrily out the window at the roadside billboards. PALM (CONT'D) ... they oughta be erased! All those signs, selling crap, and more crap, and, I don't know, it's disgusting, I don't even want to talk about it! Bobby starts to say something: BOBBY Well... PALM It's just filthy. People are dirty. I think that's the biggest thing that's wrong with people. I think they wouldn't be as violent if they were clean, because then they wouldn't have anybody to pick on... Oofh... Dirt... RAYETTE Well... PALM Not dirt. See, dirt isn't bad. It's filth. Filth is bad. That's what starts maggots and riots... She suddenly leans over to the front seat, pointing to a semi ahead. PALM (CONT'D) Hey, follow that truck. They know the best places to stop. RAYETTE That's an old maid's tale. PALM Bullshit! Truck drivers know the best eating places on the road. Rayette turns around, asserting: RAYETTE Salesmen and cops are the ones. If you'd ever waitressed, honey, you'd know. PALM Don't call me "honey," mack. RAYETTE Don't call me "mack," honey. PALM I wouldn't be a waitress. They're nasty and full of crap. RAYETTE You better hold onto your tongue! PALM (giving her the finger) Hold onto this. Terry laughs. RAYETTE Just one minute, you! Don't you ever talk to me like that! BOBBY Shut up! All of you!
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