#Death race 2000 original movie
#Death race 2000 original drivers
#Death race 2000 original driver

That became вЂThe RacerвЂ™ вЂ“ I wrote it as a short story, a serious kind of piece.вЂ™ДЇirst published in Escapade in 1956, вЂThe RacerвЂ™ is a brief dystopia which adopts the narrative strategy of Nineteen Eighty-Four or Fahrenheit 451: the viewpoint character is a relatively privileged member of a society built around near-symbolic injustice who comes to question an evil everyone around him accepts.

And the juxtaposition of watching the horror on the wifeвЂ™s face and the excitement of the fans вЂ“ this, after all, was what they really came to see вЂ“ struck me enormously.

#Death race 2000 original drivers

вЂThere was an accident, and one of the drivers was killed. вЂI had been to the Indianapolis 500 somewhere around 1939, and I sat in the box with the wives of the drivers,вЂ™ said Danish-born writer Ib Melchior.

#Death race 2000 original movie

The discвЂ™s bonus material are just as depressingly painful to watch as the movie itself making the entire package a bizarre opportunity to torture your weekend movie club.A piece on Paul BartelвЂ™s film Death Race 2000, considered as an adaptation of Ib MelchiorвЂ™s short story вЂThe RacerвЂ™. As an added kick in the pants the sound is presented in glorious Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. ThereвЂ™s a brief making-of featurette and the original theatrical trailer is included as well but neither is worth watching. The movie is horrible and no amount of talking can cover it up. The solemnity and seriousness paid to the project is laughable and sometimes a little deluded. The commentary really goes awry when the two begin talking about the role that method acting played in the performances as though they were part of a discussion for вЂњInside the ActorвЂ™s StudioвЂќ. DonвЂ™t worry Mary, weвЂ™re bored, not blindвЂ¦we can see the mistakes well enough without Roger pointing them out. Mary chides him for it, saying the audience will always notice the mistakes the next time they see them.

At one point in the commentary Roger confesses that there are a few shots where he slowed the filming down too much to make the cars look like theyвЂ™re going faster than they really are. Producer Roger Corman and actress Mary Woronov threw together a commentary but their dialogue isnвЂ™t much better than the one offered in the film ItвЂ™s a testament to the movieвЂ™s significance that neither Stallone nor Carradine could spare the hour and a half to join the conversation. Clad in black plastic mask and cape, one might accuse the character of ripping off Darth Vader if the movie hadnвЂ™t come out two years before Star Wars.

#Death race 2000 original driver

The PresidentвЂ™s champion in this national sporting spectacle is a half man, half machine driver called Frankenstein. The President of the United States has become something of a Roman Emperor, sating the blood lust of his nationвЂ™s denizens by creating the Trans-Continental Road Race, the street melee equivalent of a gladiator competition. What did we do to deserve this? ItвЂ™s the year 2000 (bear in mind, the movie was made in 1974) and the world is a very weird place. For whatever reason, the man is apparently getting a special DVD collection of his early works released, a sort of B-grade movie lifetime achievement award. Of course, that doesnвЂ™t matter since you would likely be driven to stick your head in the oven after just a couple weeks. If you felt the need to mentally abuse yourself you could sit down to a Corman produced project every night for a year and still not be able to get through his entire body of work. Roger Corman comes from the school of movie making that favors quantity over quality, unless youвЂ™re talking about budget in which case the cheaper the better.