Repo Man
‘An ordinary person spends his life avoiding intense situations. Repo man spends his life getting INTO intense situations. Let’s go get a drink…’
This cult 80's film was one of my faves as a young reprobate – the dialogue, bad attitude, and punk rock weirdness …
Released in 1984, British Director Alex Cox based the film on his own personal Los Angeles horrors and the tutelage of Mark Lewis, a Los Angeles car repossesser and neighbour.
Frustrated punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) gets fired from his supermarket job and is later dumped by his girlfriend.
Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent (Harry Dean Stanton).
During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist (Fox Harris), with Top Secret cargo in the trunk...
For some cool pics from the film visit: http://www.repomanfilm.com/promopage.htm
Here are some clips on YouTube:
Repo Man (1984) - Intro
This cult 80's film was one of my faves as a young reprobate – the dialogue, bad attitude, and punk rock weirdness …
Released in 1984, British Director Alex Cox based the film on his own personal Los Angeles horrors and the tutelage of Mark Lewis, a Los Angeles car repossesser and neighbour.
Frustrated punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) gets fired from his supermarket job and is later dumped by his girlfriend.
Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent (Harry Dean Stanton).
During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist (Fox Harris), with Top Secret cargo in the trunk...
For some cool pics from the film visit: http://www.repomanfilm.com/promopage.htm
Here are some clips on YouTube:
Repo Man (1984) - Intro
John Wayne was a ... (one of the greatest lines from Repo Man)
The Repo Code
Otto Asks for Some Dough
Posted by: Dan
Labels:
1984,
Alex Cox,
Dan,
Emilio Estevez,
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Repo Man
1 comment:
Best Film!
'John Wayne was a fag...' Great line.
Going to add this to my Facebook and Phuser.com! I had forgotten how good this film was, cheers.
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