{"id":1329,"date":"2009-08-11T02:26:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T08:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/main\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2009-08-11T02:26:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T08:26:23","slug":"dirty-mary-crazy-larry-complacent-deke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/dirty-mary-crazy-larry-complacent-deke\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Mary Crazy Larry &#038; Complacent Deke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMCL%2001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[THE CHALK-OUTLINE]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974): Breakdown by Rantbo<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>An asshole, a slut and a grease monkey get chased by cops. VROOM VROOM! SCREECH! CRASH!!!<\/p>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[THE EXECUTION]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After seeing this film referenced in several Tarantino flicks, I broke down and decided to order myself a copy of the damn thing, if for nothing else than to be a more efficient and elitist movie snob.\u00a0 And thankfully, my money was well spent. DMCL is a classic 70s carsploitation flick, and also one the best chase movies ever made.<\/p>\n<p>The set up is short and sweet like Mary\u2019s halter top.\u00a0 A NASCAR washout and his disgraced drunkard mechanic decide the quickest way back into the business is to put together their own race car, with \u2018barrowed\u2019 money. The bitch Larry happened to shack up with the night before they rob a shopping mart, ends up along for the ride and the rest is one giant race against time and backwoods hick cops.<\/p>\n<p>This film is a true gem of the genre. Every thing is shot at full speed, with real cars doing real stunts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMCL%2002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EVERYTHING! There isn\u2019t a single miniature or special effects shot. What they filmed is what you see. That\u2019s harder to find nowadays than someone willing to take a blow-job from Susan George. The film is just over an hour and a half long (the perfect Action movie length), and about an hour of that is spent on the road and driving hard. And while I\u2019m not a fan of either of the title characters (it\u2019s hard to root for a loudmouth ass and an even loudermouth whore), the third main character, Deke, makes up for the both of them in the few character development scenes featured within. In all the others, there are so many reckless stunts and cool crashes that I\u2019d forget all together about the dickweeds behind the wheel. All-in-all, if you dig 70s car flicks, or chase movies in general, DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY is right on the top of the pileup. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[HOW BAD-ASS ARE THE MAIN CHARACTERS?]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMCL%2003.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Peter Fonda is Crazy Larry<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cYou know what it means when someone like me gets off to a bad start?\u2014Not a god damn thing.\u201d<br \/>\nAn ex-NASCAR racer, turned shopping mart robber, Larry is a fucking jag-off. A selfish, egotistical, apathetic, showboating, gum-chewing white-trash butthole. What\u2019s not to love? However, Larry is one hellova driver, and for this movie, that\u2019s all that counts. It\u2019s not cocky, when you back it up, as Kid Rock would say. And I could easily see him as Larry in a remake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMCL%2004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Susan George is Dirty Mary \u2018Super Crotch\u2019 Coombs<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Mary is your classic 70s butterface. Well, almost. Aside from the fact that she could eat an apple through a picket fence, Susan does have some pretty eyes, when her smile isn&#8217;t fucking them up. But, before you start thinking that I\u2019m just objectifying poor Mary, she is a self admitted groupie whore. She can, however, give as good as she gets, and not just sexually. Even though she is loose as a pocket full of change, not all of her brains have been fucked out by doped up rock stars. But, she\u2019s still young.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMCL%2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Adam Roarke is Deke Sommers<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>If Alec Baldwin were a mechanic, he\u2019d be Deke Sommers. Deke\u2019s a standup guy. Easily the only likable one of this wild bunch. It\u2019s revealed that he\u2019s had his problems in the past with the sauce, but it\u2019s also made clear that Deke is a fighter for change and women\u2019s rights. Well, when he isn\u2019t busy using them for leverage in a robbery, that is. But, even so, Roarke is the one to watch this for. His stoic quiet guy routine is all but a charade when the chance for chivalry presents itself. It\u2019s just a shame he waits until the end of the film to become an anti-heroic contender.<\/p>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[THE BODY COUNT: &#8211;]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As explaining who dies and how would be a crushing spoiler, I\u2019ll just say it\u2019s not high, but still pretty badass.<\/p>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[MOST SATISFYING ASS-KICKING]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>\u201869 Charger vs. Copper Chopper<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Just when you think the Charger can\u2019t get any more badass, someone has it razzle a fuckin\u2019 helicopter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMLC%2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Again, like I mentioned above, this is made 100% cooler than today\u2019s films, by the fact that this was all done practically and in a lot of shots, with the real actors. Watching the definitive badass muscle car of the 60s and 70s, barreling down a stretch of road at 100+ miles per hour while a helicopter tries to cripple its hood and send it spinning into a grove of trees, makes for one of the best chase sequences ever put on celluloid. And this is just a couple minutes of the <strong>overall<\/strong> chase that encompasses almost the entire length of the film.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[DUDESWEAT AND MACHISMO]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Larry and Deke hold a special kind of friendship, that manages to surpass drinking problems and women on the side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMLC%2007.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These two have been through the circuit for each other numerous times, and I think it\u2019s safe to say that they love one another, a little bit more than the average hetro male friendship laws will allow. They bicker and fight like a middle-aged couple on a 20 year anniversary road trip, bring up painful occurrences from the past as ammunition against each other, yet find constant ways to touch and comfort shortly after their bigger tiffs. That\u2019s love for ya.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s this guy\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMLC%2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>\u201cImma eat chore lunch, you long haired faggot!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[EXPLOITATION AND MISOGYNY]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Larry:<\/strong><\/span> \u201cEvery bone in her crotch\u2014that\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larry insults, exploits and berates Mary on a non-stop basis. All of which, her loud-mouthed sassy ass deserved for being such an annoying floozy. But, then he takes it up a notch and shoves her to the ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMLC%2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deke sets Larry straight, but the damage to female empowerment was dealt a mighty blow. You can own your sexuality all you want ladies, but don\u2019t think for a second that a man can\u2019t just throw your ass in the dirt if you get outta line. We&#8217;re still stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there is a small bit of blurred female nudity in the beginning when Deke invades the home of the shopping mart manager to hold his wife for insurance. And he finds her in the shower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMLC%2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[EPIC MOMENT AND BEST ONE-LINER]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Larry is teasing (berating) Mary for the 10th time in as many minutes, and she finally has enough and attacks him with her bear trap grill. Having Mary\u2019s snaggletooth chompers sink into his shoulder, understandably draws Larry\u2019s attention away from the wheel and the three outlaws careen off the road, up and over a rock, through a fence, down a hill and through a second.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMLC%2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"468\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>\u201cSo help me, if you try another stunt like that again&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong> I\u2019m gonna braid your tits!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span><strong><span><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[THE MORAL OF THE STORY]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAny town&#8217;s a nice little town, when you nail a broad.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[THE CHECKLIST: 09 outta 25]<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><strong><strong>[\u00a0 ] Athlete(s) Turned \u201cActor\u201d<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Clinging To The Outside Of A Moving Vehicle<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Crotch Attack<br \/>\n[X] Dialogue Telling Us How Bad-Ass The Main Character(s) Is\/Are<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Ending Featuring An Ambulance, A Blanket or A Towel<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Factory\/Warehouse<br \/>\n[X] Giant Explosion(s)<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Heavy Artillery<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Improvised Weapon(s)<br \/>\n[X] Macho Mode(s) Of Transportation<br \/>\n[X] Main Character Sports Facial Accessory(s)<br \/>\n[X] Manly Embrace(s)<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Notorious Stunt-Man Sighting<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Passage(s) Of Time Via Montage<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Politically Fueled Plot Point(s)<br \/>\n[X] Senseless Destruction Of Property<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Shoot Out(s) and\/or Sword Fight(s)<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Slow-Motion Finishing Move(s)\/Death(s)<br \/>\n[X] Stupid Authoritative Figure(s)<br \/>\n[X] Substance Usage and\/or Abuse<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Tis The Season<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Torture Sequence(s)<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Unnecessary Sequel<br \/>\n[X] Vehicle Chase(s)<br \/>\n[\u00a0 ] Vigilante Justice<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DMLC%2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[THE CHALK-OUTLINE] Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974): Breakdown by Rantbo An asshole, a slut and a grease monkey get chased by cops. VROOM VROOM! SCREECH! CRASH!!! 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