Death Race 2000

Death Race 2000 is an American action film directed by Paul Bartel 's 1975 starring David Carradine.

The film is a parody of the violence in the sport and is set in an alternate future in the year 2000 as different racers participate in the transcontinental road race involving pedestrians are killed on purpose because of the extra points. The film has become a cult classic. At hatching, however, opinions were divided. Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars and found the film overly violent. The film is based on the short story The Racer by Ib Melchior.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == In an alternate future in the year 2000 the United States no longer exist. After a financial crisis, a military coup occurred. Political parties are banned and replaced by the Bipartisan Party. This party governed not only politics, but also religion through the Unified Church. The new State is called The United Provinces and is headed a military dictatorship with fascist of a figure known as "Mr. President". To the people to keep quiet is all kinds of public entertainment came up with. One of the initiatives is the Transcontinental Road Race. This is a races for cars that lasts three days and using the regular roads in the United Provinces. Special points can be earned by run over and kill of unsuspecting pedestrians. The audience is seated in front of the television and will not be so foolish to the next three days walking on the streets.
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The participants of the race have not only bizarre-looking cars, they look too bizarre from. So drive Machine Gun Joe Viterbo in a black Cadillac with a gigantic knife on the front with two machine guns. Viterbo itself is dressed like a gangster from the thirties of the 20th century. Matilda the Hun, equipped as a nazi officer, drives a VW Karmann-Ghia, nicknamed Buzz bomb, that looks like a V1 bomb from the Second World War while her unsecured Calamity Jane drive, dressed in cowgirl clothing, in a car with giant Bull horns on the front. Nero the Hero, equipped as the Roman Emperor Nero, drives a Fiat 850 Spider that is disguised as a giant lion. But no one can hold a candle to the Champ: Frankenstein. Frankensteins car looks like a monster. He is dressed in black leather with a SM-mask that covered his entire face.According to the stories is Frankenstein more machine than man. Virtually all of his limbs have been replaced by machine parts after a number of crashes. His face has so many scars that he looks like the legendary monster of Frankenstein. Each racer has a co-driver or navigator that also to be alert for potential pedestrians.

The 20th Edition of the race is a very special because the winner may print the hand of the president. Everyone is so even more burned to win. What no one knows is that a resistance group wants to sabotage the race.The Group has one of the resistance members, the blonde Annie, filter. Anne is the new bijrijdster of Frankenstein and has the task to kill him. The resistance group would then take place a doppelganger Frankensteins.The doppelganger to kill than Mr. President. The plan of the resistance is other than thought. Annie is in love with Frankenstein. The last shows no monster, but a common man. He has no scars or limbs replaced. He tells Annie that there have been multiple Frankensteins and if one dies is he just replaced. It also appears that Frankenstein itself to put an end to the dictatorship. His hand has been replaced by a replica with a built-in hand grenade. If he wins the hand of Mr. President wants Frankenstein shaking and then blow up.

During the race one after the other participant is disabled. Calamity Jane is blown up by the resistance. Matilda the Hun running into an ambush and drive through the abyss in a neptunnel and Machine Gun Joe is disabled by Frankenstein. In the confrontation with the Joe Vertibo is lost and Frankenstein are hand grenade wounded severely hit. Annie takes his place and rushes to the stage to give a hand to Mr. President and to kill him. However, she is shot by the resistance that think Frankenstein on stage. The real Frankenstein driving then the stage to shreds and kills Mr. President. Frankenstein is the new president. He announces elections to and forbids the Transcontinental Road Race. As a disappointed him about this Frankenstein reporter appeals to drive over him. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Death Race 2000 is a parody on American sports events that are more and more like the gladiator fights from Roman times. The idea that some people just to watch a formula 1 race to see fall to kill, is the setting of the film. In addition, parodies the film the dystopian SF-films as Fahrenheit 451, metropolis and Soylent Green. The resistance in the film seems so walked away from a B-movie about World War II headed a granny that indicate themselves as Thomasina Paine (a great-great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Paine, an American Revolutionary from the American Revolutionary War. The film was released in the same year as Rollerball, a SF movie with almost the same theme. In Rollerball also runs everything to a violent sport where deaths. Only is roller ball not a parody. Producer Corman did everything possible to bring Death Race 2000 with a wink.The actors acting over the top, the cars are too grotesque for words and the way the race is laughable. Two reporters follow the operations of the race and visit a grieving widow who has just lost her husband to the race ("A dear dear friend of mine" (a dear dear friend of mine, says the reporter full of so-called compassion). The husband of the widow was created by Joe Vertibo and is a posthumous hero as the first victim of the race.The viewer knows that Corman takes it with a grain of salt can make his first victim as Frankenstein. It is a child who is not ridden by Frankenstein, although it does have many points can bring. The reporter explains this right by saying that Frankenstein supposedly better prey are looking for. Frankenstein makes incidentally ' weakness ' overthrow by a number of good nurses drive provided under a euthanasia program smiling some old people in wheelchairs on the way places. This gives the movie something of a ' sick joke ', the audience laughs at something cruelty as the deliberate killing of people, even though that people themselves guilty of murder. The total has not seriously meant that Corman is borne out by the final scene where Frankenstein as the new president a tough reporter omverrijdt. Old habits die hard and everything seems to stay the same. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Roger Corman's New World Pictures had founded In 1970. An independent studio/distrubutiemaatschappij those movies produced. Death Race 2000 was one of the projects of the studio. Corman relied for the film on a short story by Ib Melchior. However, the story was adapted. For example, In the original story Frankenstein and Mr. President not at all for. The first version which Corman wrote was foreseen the same atmosphere as the original story. Corman, however, was not satisfied with the dark tone and asked Robert Thom to rewrite the story as a comedy. After the scenario was completed, started the auditions. Corman sent the screenplay toPeter Fonda that he had in mind as Frankenstein. However, Fonda liked the story so ridiculous that he even gave no answer. Next on the list was David Carradine. Carradine was world-famous as Caine, the lead actor from the tv series Kung Fu. Carradine had the recordings of the tv series ended and was looking for a film role. He was looking for a movie that would make an end to equal his brave image as the ' small ' from Chinese Kung Fu. Two weeks after the series, he began the recordings. The movie explained to him no wind eggs and launched his career as a film actor. Carradine also took care for problems when he refused to learn to wear.The costume designer had to fast for an alternative substance concerns that looked like leather. The actors in the supporting roles were virtually unknown. Also Sylvester Stallone was at that time not yet broken through and had only small roles played (among other things in the Lords of Flatbush). Stallone was dissatisfied with the text he got and wrote part of his text itself.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the recordings made the producer Corman great use of existing locations. So are the scenes that have been used in the opening sequence and all the scenes that play on the race track recorded at the Ontario Motor Speedway near Los Angeles. The opening scene was even recorded between two races at the Ontario Motor Speedway by. Corman, who called the champion of the B-movie is called, was, in any case, always working to minimize wasting film budget. He was therefore all the money without his permission when Director Paul Bartel Devils of the budget used to create the movie titles Jane Ruhm. Since the topic of the film is a transcontinental race, so a race across America and some scenes play in areas without mountains, let the frugal Corman include virtually all recordings in the same area. So are even in the scenes that play in New Jersey and Missouri, to see mountains. He also showed scenes that play in Manhattan at the Lincoln tunnel in downtown Los Angeles.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The cars that have been used in the film are usually ordinary models such as Chevrolet, Cadillac, Fiat and Volkswagen which have been modified. After the film recordings were the cars sold to car museums and had brought more than they cost. Apart from the already mentioned cars are there any other cars in the movie to see. The white car which the resistance used is a 1966 Ford Mustang, the car of Frankenstein is a modified Chevrolet Corvette. The wedding car that can be seen on the end of the film is based on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis. Volkswagen delivered more vehicles for the film (for example, the chassis for the Buzz Bomb by Matilda the Hun). The alterations that the cars had to undergo the engine work did any good. Regularly attacked the engines out and had to be pushed to the cars of a hill so to preserve the illusion that they really reason. If the engines did, however, once the reason they are so slow that the cameras were made to create the illusion so unstable that the car faster reason. There were also problems with the racers. Mary Woronov that Calamity Jane played, had no driver's license and could no car, she was for the race scenes replaced by a stuntman. For the close ups was the actress in a car that was pulled by a truck in which the camera crew sat. On the other hand did Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine most of racing called itself. Corman was also when driving involved. Since the converted cars actually were allowed to drive on public roads, not wanted the stunt people don't drive, afraid if she were to be picked up by the police. The frugal Corman wanted to make that no extra costs for recording on special roads drove the cars when itself.