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| Comments: 21 (Read/Post) Favorites: 2 (View) |
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on: 07-19-2005
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An actual Peterbilt from 'Duel' |
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| #4 |
7-19-2005 @ 05:14:35 PM |
| Posted By : Disrupture |
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What the hell is it with that movie ? I never heard of it until I saw you guys talk about it.
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7-01-2006 @ 11:50:26 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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I'm in the process right now of trying to correct their information about this truck on www.imcdb.org . They list the truck as a 1960 Peterbilt 281, however the main truck was a 1955 model....the 1960 (which still survives today and is undoubtedly the one in this picture) was a backup truck.
There was also a 1964 Peterbilt 351 used for the added scenes (the railroad crossing and the school bus) and in the 1978 Incredible Hulk episode that used Duel footage, and it supposedly is still sitting in a warehouse at Universal Studios with cobwebs all over it and every tire flat.
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| #13 |
7-01-2006 @ 11:57:17 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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The budget of the film was actually pretty decent for the time...something like $375,000, IIRC. Universal actually originally planned to release it theatrically, but decided it was too short and made it a CBS movie of the week instead.
EDIT: When it was decided to release it theatrically worldwide, the added scenes were done to correct what was scene as the film's only "problem". This was done in 1973. The added scenes were great and added a lot to film, I think, but I'm sick of everyone saying the school bus scene was a sexual metaphor....I don't think that's what Spielberg had in mind.
[Edited by Skid on 7-01-2006 @ 11:59:17 PM]
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7-02-2006 @ 12:17:49 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#14, The entire movie is something of a metaphor for machismo....Mann is the ultimate non-man. Weak, inoffensive, nonaggressive. On the other hand the truck is the ultimate expression of masculinity and everything that brings him down. In other words, the whole movie is a buildup to the moment where he finally decides to "be a man" and fight back. This much I agree with.
However, some people are bizarrely insistent that the Valiant being unable to push the school bus is a symbol for sexual non-performance, and it takes a "real man", IE, the truck, to be able to perform, IE, push the bus. Personally, I think this theory is perpetuated by people with way too much time on their hands who are too caught up in the bullshit study of symbolism to actually appreciate a good story.
I even saw one guy on IMDB saying that the school bus scene is a HOMOSEXUAL metaphor. Because we all know what a rampant ass-plower Steven Spielberg is, apparently. :P
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7-02-2006 @ 12:43:52 AM |
| Posted By : Lemming |
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#15, "Because we all know what a rampant ass-plower Steven Spielberg is, apparently."
Taken out of context, that is one incredible quote. :p
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