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      • "Five Easy Pieces" refers to a book of piano lessons for beginners.
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  2. The film tells the story of surly oil rig worker Bobby Dupea (Nicholson), whose rootless blue-collar existence belies his privileged youth as a piano prodigy. When Bobby learns that his father is dying, he travels to his family home in Washington to visit him, taking along his uncouth girlfriend (Black).

  3. Jun 29, 2015 · Five Easy Pieces is the very definition of a character study, and one of the best American cinema has produced. Nicholson’s Dupea embodies the self-destructive dissatisfaction that was common to a lot of movie characters in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but his unhappiness resonates more, because he isn’t the kind of person that usually ...

  4. Mar 16, 2003 · Five Easy Pieces” was a fusion of the personal cinema of John Cassavetes and the new indie movement that was tentatively emerging. It was, you could say, the first Sundance film. Nicholson was not the film’s only discovery.

  5. When we sense the boy, tormented and insecure, trapped inside the adult man, “Five Easy Pieces” becomes a masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity. At the outset, we meet only the man — played by Jack Nicholson with the same miraculous offhandedness that brought “ Easy Rider ” to life.

  6. The title Five Easy Pieces refers to a book of music which piano students must master before going on to more complex compositions, and it also suggests, through the Chopin seduction linking music and sex, Bobby's sexual conquests. If he must similarly know himself before he can confront life, then Bobby is only an accomplished pianist and ...

  7. May 12, 2015 · Unlike those other other films and books about the counterculture, though, Five Easy Pieces is a film with far more to say than that infantile protestation, “I’ll do what I want.” It’s...

  8. What is "Five Easy Pieces" about? Trained as a concert pianist, Robert "Bobby" Dupea (Jack Nicholson) turned his back on his rich, intellectual family and on a promising career in order to work in the oil fields, go bowling, drink beer with his friend Elton (Billy Green Bush), and take up with Rayette (Karen Black), a not-so-bright waitress.

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