come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without is till monday? oh, i reckon. i was young enough to bounce that far, i d go with you. the last picture show was a movie that, however old i was when i saw it, i said, oh my god this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid- 70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. do you think the last picture show is a john ford type movie? no. i think it s a peter bogdanovich type movie. peter bogdanovic loved movies, had a sense of movie history, but had a very strong sensibility. he spoke to a new generation, both visually and emotionally. orson welles read the script. and i said, i d like to get that depth of feel, everything being sharp the way you did in citizen kane, touch of evil. he said, you
we tried to warn you somehow you didn t listen, daddy, you didn t listen. had a heart attack. had ahe heart attack and ope heart surgery and became very interested in death and life. that s really his love story in the movie. it s with death. rocky horror picture show was initially a flop. fox released it. people didn t like it. they didn t thougknow what to mf it. it s about a couple lost on a highway, and it just gets so weird. why doesn n t you stay for th night or maybe a bite . it was a tradition that played only at midnight.