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   What is a road movie based on?

   • Edgar G. Ulmer ’s Detour (1945), a film noir about a musician travelling from New York City to Hollywood who sees a nation absorbed by greed. A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives.

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   Are there any road movies based on cars?

   • Even more rare are road movies focusing on large groups, as in Get on the Bus (1996), or on a lone driver, as in Vanishing Point (1971). Other car-oriented variations include road comedies like Flirting with Disaster (1996), road horror films such as Near Dark (1987), and racing films like Death Race 2000 (1975).

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   Are American road movies based on European films?

   • More generally, Devin Orgeron states that American road movies were based on post-WW II European cinema's own take on the American road film approach, showing a mutual influence between US and European filmmakers in this genre.

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   When did road movies become a genre?

   • The road movie emerged as a distinct genre near the end of the 1960s, as baby boomers began hitting the road. It was during the Depression, however, that certain classical genre films developed elements of the modern road movie.

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   What are some European Road Films based on a true story?

   • Other European road films include Ingmar Bergman 's Wild Strawberries (1957), about an old professor travelling the roads of Sweden and picking up hitchhikers and Jean-Luc Godard 's Pierrot le fou (1965) about law-breaking lovers escaping on the road.

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   Who influenced road movies?

   • More direct and recent literary influences are John Steinbeck (1902–1968) and Jack Kerouac (1922–1969). Road movies feature characters on the move, often outsiders who cross geographic borders but also transgress moral boundaries.

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   A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. [2]

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   Road Movies. ICONOGRAPHY, STYLE, AND THEMES. Filmmakers from all over the cinematic map have been drawn to the road movie: low-budget independent, mainstream Hollywood, experimental, documentary, gay, feminist, and most national cinemas. Yet certain consistent features can be identified among them.

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   Exploring the very theme of exploration, the road movie reinvents the classic literary journey narrative, drawing inspiration from Homer's Odyssey, the wanderings of biblical prophets, and the epic travels of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), Mark Twain (1835–1910), and Walt Whitman (1819–1892).

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   Road movies feature characters on the move, often outsiders who cross geographic borders but also transgress moral boundaries. With their reflexive focus on the interplay between automobile and camera technology, road movies mobilize a dynamic cinematic spectacle of movement and speed.

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   Dec 10, 2013 · A road movie can be funny, thrilling, or romantic, but its essence is always the same: an outward journey that triggers and signifies its characters’ inward transformation.

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   In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other. Director Alfonso Cuarón Stars Maribel Verdú Gael García Bernal Daniel Giménez Cacho

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   Oct 1, 2024 · A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives.[2]