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Release Date: 24 October, 2000 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
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the individual and the state...
The tragedy of Preston Tucker is that of a visionary who saw all the way back in the late 1940s what really needed to be done with the automobile--e.g., seat belts, fuel injection, disk brakes--and then did it and then got completely destroyed by the powers that be because of it. In this context, "powers that be" means not only the big 3 automakers (GM, Ford, and Chrysler at the time) but the Feds as well.
It's the same old story. Watch the documentary "The Corporation" for an updated version of how US big business continues to destroy what's good and true and real, just like it did to Tucker.
The film is somewhat glossed over, but the production is absolutely smashing. It's a period piece and the period is evoked so well that the viewer is completely caught up in the events. Tucker envisioned a car so far ahead of its time that the stodgy, rod-up-their-butts, too stupid for their own good politicos and corporate blowhards couldn't handle it and subsequently used every means at their disposal to bring Tucker down.
Jeff Bridges gives a wide-eyed interpretation of Preston Tucker, which is not a bad thing, and Joan Allen--as usual--turns in an excellent performance as his supportive wife. The supporting cast is fine, with Frederic Forrest, Mako, Elias Koteas, and Christian Slater as the standouts.
This is more than anything else a political film and it's no secret where the director's (Francis Ford Coppola) sympathies lie, as do mine. It's a real shame the Tucker could not be mass produced. But we do have this fine film and, as well, an interesting article in the August 2006 issue of Life Extension magazine on Preston Tucker.
This is how government and big business collude--both in the late 1940s and now. Things haven't changed. At all.
Sorry. Doesn't work for me...
I'm always suspicious of a film in which (my wife &) I spend more time watching & commenting on the clothes & cars than on the people & action. This whole production has the blown-up spic & span artificiality of a major retro-fashion spread in GQ or the NYT magazine. Even the acting seems overblown. I was kid during the Tucker era. It had a whle different look & feel from this movie. Grittier, life was hopeful but very tough. This movie looks like a series of Coca Cola ads from that era, all smiles & shiny faces. In particular I think Jeff Bridges was a major miscast, playing his usual lovable goofball. Tucker was a far more interesting & complex person in real life.
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