Holy Compact Car Batman!...What I Caught Watching Duel At The Plaza Last Night

Holy Compact Car Batman!...What I Caught Watching Duel At The Plaza Last Night

Last night I stayed for our first screening of Duel and there’s quite a few things that popped out at me that I hadn't noticed when I first saw this movie years ago. The more I thought about the film, the more connections I made. With those ideas swirling in my head, I had to get them out. Hence this post is born. Read this before, or after, our screening this Sunday, September 8 to see if you agree with my conclusions.

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Duel on Sunset Boulevard

Duel on Sunset Boulevard

American filmmakers have been equally as infatuated with the car as the rest of the country. It’s been a key player in hundreds of films, no more so than Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard  (1950)...Two decades after Sunset Boulevard, 25-year-old Steven Spielberg and writer Richard Matheson would similarly use the nation’s love affair with the open road in constructing Duel, an ABC TV movie of the week into a taut thriller. 

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