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
that i m whacko or something? shes that has this energy ab her, but you gradually see it unraveling. it s kind of devastating. but wow, what a performance. it was really refreshing to see a movie that put a woman directly at the center. thank you for everything. this was right at the beginning of the women s movement, and i found the script for alice. the studio said who do you want to direct it. francis coppola said you should talk to the studio about hiring him. so i asked to meet marty, and i said i want to tell this story from a woman s point of view rs and i can t tell interest watching this film if you know anything about women, do you? and he said no, but i d like to learn. i was trying to deal with it just as a person, and i had ellen as a guide.