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Título original: Vanishing Point

1971
14
1 h 39 min

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7,2/10

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Car Action Dark Comedy Road Trip Action Crime Thriller

Um ex-fuzileiro, ex-corredor automobilístico e ex-policial demitido da corporação, dedica-se a transportar carros para uma pequena oficina. Em um desses trabalhos ele deve levar um Dodge Cha... Ler tudoUm ex-fuzileiro, ex-corredor automobilístico e ex-policial demitido da corporação, dedica-se a transportar carros para uma pequena oficina. Em um desses trabalhos ele deve levar um Dodge Challenger '70 de Denver para São Francisco.Um ex-fuzileiro, ex-corredor automobilístico e ex-policial demitido da corporação, dedica-se a transportar carros para uma pequena oficina. Em um desses trabalhos ele deve levar um Dodge Challenger '70 de Denver para São Francisco.

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31 mil

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Curiosidades
The car featured in the film is a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, with a 440 cubic-inch V-8, and not a 426 Hemi V-8 (as is often believed). Eight white Challengers loaned from the Chrysler Corporation were used during the filming.

Erros de gravação
The 19-inch racks in Super Soul's radio station with large tape reels (in one scene seen fast moving) are not audio equipment. These tape drives were used in computer systems in the 1970s to store data on tape.

Citações
Super Soul: This radio station was named Kowalski, in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him.

Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
The Fox logo is shown without the fanfare making it one of the first times this has happened.

Versões alternativas
When first released in Brazil, the movie had some scenes cut, reducing the running time to 99 minutes.

Conexões
Edited into Gone with the Wind: The Remarkable Rise and Tragic Fall of Lynyrd Skynyrd (2015)

Trilhas sonoras
You Got to Believe
Composed by Delaney Bramlett
Sung by Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
(Courtesy of Atlantic Records)

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10/10

Look back on your life torn asunder...then throw it into third gear and floor it.

Barry Newman is "Kowalski", an enigmatic figure who has tried everything in his life from stock car racing to the military, and failed at every one of his endeavors. Working as an auto delivery man, he gets an order to transport a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T to San Francisco, and makes a bet with a few friends that it can be done in an impossibly short time. After loading up on "ups" and throttling the car westward, he is soon pursued vigorously by the police and embraced by the public as something of a hero. During a time when national speed limits were all controversy, this film provides a compelling argument against them: A fast car in the hands of a capable driver is not dangerous. Even the police, so caught up in their own system, don't realize that they are the only ones causing accidents and endangering the public while blindly trying to keep up with and capture Kowalski.

While the film sounds at first to be a simple action film, it's really much more than that. Kowalksi's past is revealed little by little through flashbacks, making the film something of a character study. Kowalski's trip becomes a road trip of existentialism as he runs across various strange characters: Solitary hippies, gay bandits, a boogie-woogie snake handling Christian cult, and the blind soul station DJ (brilliantly played by Cleavon Little) who is attempting to guide him on his journey from within the car's radio.

Topping it off is a great soundtrack, breathtaking cinematography and direction, and automotive action that has seen no equal. This film manages to be both compelling and exciting. Just watch it already.

10/10