Re: Cars & The Movies

I agree, an estate would make much more sense. 

Just now I remembered another interesting example of car casting. Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia not only features Thomas Cruise Mapother's best acting to date (no faint praise intended), but also interesting choices regarding cars. 

There's Jason Robard's dying film producer, whose splendid Mercedes W111 convertible can be glimpsed in the background. His considerably younger wife (Julianne Moore) has been equipped with a (then up-to-date) R129 SL - which seems like the right car for a Mercedes enthusiast sugar daddy to give to his trophy wife. 

Similarly, there's also Philip Baker Hall's nasty game show host Jimmy Gator, who couldn't give up his Jag XK-E/E-Type even when his bones were craving something roomier. He's also obviously the one who makes all the motoring choices on his family's behalf, for his wife (Melinda Dillon) can be seen driving an XJ40 during the film's climax. 

All these choices make perfect sense - and then there's the odd one. The very odd one. Tom Cruise's sex guru Frank T. J. Mackey ("Master of the muffin") drives the ultimate automotive expression of testosterone overload.

The Saturn SC2. 

Re: Cars & The Movies

Batty said:

kubrick said:

 car4mh said:
Would a French antiques dealer living in Tuscany who looks like Juliette Binoche drive a basic Mk 2 Focus?

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Because intellectuals and aesthetes despise the automobile. At least that's what some intellectuals (and even fewer aesthetes) would have you believe. 

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Wonderfully put kubrick- it certainly seems that way, but why? Such arrogant disregard I find contemptuous and thus any comment they make in regard to their subject I equally dismiss.

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As Kubrick put it, it's what they would have you believe in a lot of cases rather than what they actually believe.

It's just that those people hate themselves for feeling emotional about something that should be purely functional - a mere machine. Basically they're not allowing themselves to be irrational, and comfortable with the thought that their lives are not always governed by reason.

Also when they land somewhere they always stupidly forget to ask the rental desk monkey about what's on offer and whether they can get an upgrade, and end up kicking themselves for the rest of the trip, which is why they often sport a face like a slapped a*se.