come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? did you say? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this old heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without us tli 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.
someday this war s going to end. the fight hadn t gone how they expected. it wasn t a traditional war, and it felt very hazy and a lot of them were high. and it felt like an apt metaphor for what the war was like for many, many people. this is a powerful indictment of war, but it s also a disturbing journey to the darkest reaches of our own human soul. i think just in terms of a mori that scares you, the exorcist is the best. there was nothing else like this. the godfather was the biggest grossing film of all-time in 1972 surpassing gone with the wind in 1979.