Thankyou Alex! You made A movie that even my closest friends couldn't give A shit about, which is great because till I die I won't have to hear their recollections, and impersonations of your timeless masterpiece. Once again thankyou, and the biggest compliment I can think of to pass along is, no one has ever made A film that is similar in any capacity to "Repo Man". It Stands Alone.
Quentin has..many times "Smoke n Mirrors".my naive freind.Sid n Nancy.is fkin great aswell.Man.Wow Mike Nesmith.A Monkee.how it was(?)Hey dude Ive sm cash To put into a film.'?!!.Alex Cox.Is Clever in mind To be Around Where The Shits Going to happen.Alex."DONT POINT THAT.THING @,ME"..Written by 1.PETER GUTTERIDGE.My late Freind.Was 'A Dunedin.Sound'.ODailyTimes..2014.Just bk from N.Y The Great Unwashed Fest..&',SNAPPER.Buddy..1st ep.On Flyin non.rec's.!❤Your Films Man. Iggy ;talking re;"Getting The Op'to Do Theme Song'..Really was a Golden Op' in my career.@'time.'!Thanks to A.cox.❤
One of my most memorable experiences was sitting with my best buddy watching this at his place just a few weeks back.Thanks Alex Cox for making such a timeless masterpiece.
one of the best films of all time! never seen this before ,so thank you for posting.most of the bad language and insults i have used have come from this very film!
One of the greatest movies ever put to film. Because, you know, you'll just be walking down the street, and someone will say 'plate', or 'shrimp', or 'plate of shrimp'...
And Duke called it correctly. Less than 10 seconds later Archie opened the trunk, got nuked, and the only thing left of him was some ashes and a pair of boots that were on fire.
I may be mistaken, but I think the guy who is playing J Frank Parnell in this is actually Zander Schloss, who played Kevin in Repo Man, and is also well known for being the bassist in the Circle Jerks. The original actor, Fox Harris, passed away in 1988. Good work though, Alex picked the right guy to be the stand-in.
That is amazing, and great. I thought it was Fox Harris. He was one of the great parts about Repo Man, but then again so was HDS and Miller. What a great movie.
@@williamwoodall3538 Yes, Fox Harris played him in the movie and Fox passed away in 1988. Zander Schloss who plays Kevin in the movie plays J. Frank Parnell in this mini documentary and interview with Alex Cox.
There are 3 cuts that i know of of Repoman - the original theater, the edited for TV (the one you see on TBS and other channels in the US), and the ShowCase (canada) one - the latter has many of the scenes herein, but other elements deleted. The TBS one is also another random set. Though I'd never seen the pool scene before. I think cutting out the phone bashing was a mistake - shows Otto's character development. Same with him turning off the TV on his parents, becoming the adult in the situation. Also important the post-sex scene conversation (which puts them into a relationship, later mentioned). And the snacks conversation is brilliant mundane dialog that's so very pre-Tarantino. It's a great representation of the age that people in the 80s grew up in (the 70s) and remember as kids/teens. And the eccentrencity of Parnell is so brilliant here. It's a damn loss! yes Parnell isnt played by the original guy in this little interview thing.
I loved the "generic" labelling, which one saw (with yellow instead of white paper) in REAL LIFE only a few years later. Also, Otto's parents, who've been suckered into giving away his college tuition fund to that scummy Televangelist (again, a few years before the PTL Club, with Jim and Tammy Bakker, scandal, or even Jimmy Swaggart and his romps with hookers), are lampooned as brain-dead TV addicts (makes one wonder how they bring in the bacon, given all that couch-potato(e)ing in front of the "boob tube"). Not that Otto appeared college-bound anyway, but that college fund could have proved helpful if, after a few years of learning the Repo Man trade, Otto decided to strike out on his own.
The guy who played Parnell (his name is Fox Harris) died in December of 1988, so yes somebody else is playing him. He was only 52 years old, he died way too soon. He was great as this character.
@@selfdo About that: the movie had generic labeling but there is also actual labeling in places, too. In the grocery store where Otto gets fired (and Kevin does, too; "Louie, throw him out, too!"), at the very beginning of the scene there's big Del Monte signs showing canned peas, fruit cocktail, and other canned goods. There's prominent Coca-Cola signs sprinkled in the movie and you can see Uncle Ben's rice in the grocery store. It's funny how the generic items make the actual products stand out, which was smart (unintentionally or not). When Otto and Bud go to the liquor store the first time, behind the counter there's a section of Crown Royal bottles and the patent purple boxes of it. There's also A LOT of Jim Beam and a prominent bottle of Chivas Regal. Most other bottles are too out of focus to be identified or they're turned around backwards so you can't see a brand name. In the liquor store scene where Duke gets shot and Otto asks Debbi facetiously if she wants to be a Repo-wife, there's prominent Bud Light signs in the store window.
At 14:25, I don't understand why Sam Cohen is getting told "this is the sex scene". No, the sex scene was when Otto was dropping off Leila at UFO (United Fruitcake Outlet), Otto asks her out, she blows him off, then she reconsiders and says, "Ya wanna get back in the car?" (wink-wink, nudge-nudge). I agree, the scene here (post-sex conversation) is where a relationship is getting established. At the end when Otto chooses to go into the glowing UFO/car with Miller, it's a little weird and disjointed with this scene cut out because Leila asks, "What about our relationship?" I took that to mean she and Otto had been dating and it just didn't get shown or she's reading way too much into getting a quickie with Otto in the back of Mr. Peason's Cadillac.
"Flipping General Telephone!" My dad worked for General Telephone, he would have loved that line. He even said it every now and again (although with the word 'flipping replaced with something else).
Thanks Radu! I had no idea this existed. When was it made, do you know? I saw the film on HBO or Cinemax around 87 and it instantly became my favorite film, more than a film really. I loved it so much I became obsessed with it. I feared it was some sort of accident - that it ever got made and that it made it to cable TV - and that once it left cable I would never see or hear of it again. VCRs were expensive back then and only rich people had them and video stores were just arriving and I simply had no way to save the film or ever track it down again so I borrowed a VCR and bought my first tape and recorded it for posterity. I went around showing it to every friend I had! I still have that tape.
Great story! I know what you mean by wondering if it was some kind of half ass art school/ short film, back then the premium channels didn't have A lot of content that they "owned" so sometimes they would actually show some odd films at odd times, 9:20 am on A Wednesday morning, you'd tell A friend about it, and then you would look for it, and you would never see, or hear about the film again, but not "Repo Man". It's called A cult classic but this film is more than that, it's got everything, if this film came out now it would be praised head to toe. If A film like "No Country for Old Men" can get the recognition that it did, and some other, somewhat contemporary films like "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood" or any Wes Anderson film "REPO MAN" on A second look by the "Critics" would have more of A lofty placing in film history. Imagine if "Repo Man" came out around the time "Pulp Fiction" came out the kids would have went nuts for it!!! But hey, it didn't and part of the reason Why it's so good is it does A Fantastic job of displaying the time, and place, it's setting, I remember that time, and this movie is A Dead On snapshot of 83'/84'.
@@jasonsabourin9547 Definitely. A couple of years after I saw Repo Man I finally bought a VCR and went around to all the video stores asking for films "like Repo Man" but there was nothing. It was unique. Some of the employees were also fans so I knew at least I was not alone. This, obviously, was before the web so there was no easy way for a suburban dad to connect with the obscure corners of film cults. I honestly wondered if my love for the film was just my own misguided obsession. It wasn't until Pulp Fiction that I finally found a film and thought somebody got it, the ideas are still alive!
@@bigalexg this film is great because it's full of odd things in completely normal situations, and I either relate to that more than I would plain, uneventful, everyday life or, that's what I want in my completely normal, plain, everyday life, and this is when the "Repo code" comes in, and Bud's thoughts on "Everyday People!". P.S. Remember the last lines of the movie? "Whoa, this is intense!" --- Otto "Life of A Repo Man is always intense." --- Miller ... And that's what people want..... ......... If they can handle it.
Ahh...but then there's "Straight to Hell" which stars some of the cast from Repo Man AND they use some of the lines! It almost seems like a sequel for some of the characters. Me and my friends saw Repo probably 20 times and quoted lines from the film all the time. We were already into punk music so the soundtrack put it over the top. Straight to Hell is better I think. Zander Schloss doing his Weiner Kid bit is f'ing awesome! Geeez...AND it also stars a young, unknown Courtney Love whose character is simply her being her. If you love Repo Man, you HAVE to see Straight to Hell.
That was in the original movie but when I got the DVD I'm like what happened 2 that phone booth scene? Thax 4 claerafying that , ma bell back n dah day musta put a stop 2 it.
Bud: "I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either." "Goddamn-dipshit-Rodriguez-gypsy-dildo-punks. I'll get your ass". "A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations". "Look at those assholes, ordinary fucking people. I hate 'em." "Only an asshole gets killed for a car." "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees." "The guys that make it are the guys that get in their cars at any time. Get in at 3am, get up at 4. That's why there aint a repo man I know that don't take speed." Miller: "A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness." [Regarding tree-shaped air fresheners] "Find one in every car. You'll see." "The life of a repo man is always intense." "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are." "John Wayne was a fag. He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress." J. Frank Parnell: "Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again." Duke: "The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am." Otto: "That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me." Duke: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
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The line was always hysterical because no one would have ever said that. I grew up in the age where you actually got full service at the gas stations, washer fluid checked, air pressure checked, car vacuumed or swept by attendant etc...and no one would have ever said, "Hey you want me to check the truck?"
@@StephenPaulTroup Exactly! That line is perfect because there's no real reason for him to check the trunk but, the film has beautifully built up an almost anything goes mentality but, at the same time it's given the characters some kind of rational reason for them to want to open the trunk, Fantastic!
He's a dumb nerd who was somehow in regular contact with the kinds of people who *wouldn't* want the contents of their trunks seen. He gets to stay out of trouble and skip on a bit of work at the same time, it makes perfect sense.
Repo was slightly ahead of its time in terms of independent movies that were to come out in the late 80' on. The deleted scenes have that in-between melancholy of youth vibe much like the movies Slaker, Clerks and Amateur (1994).
@@sizone HDS apparently wanted to play both Bud and J. Frank Parnell, but then Alex Cox wanted it to be two different actors, so HDS recommended Fox Harris for the role. HDS and Dennis Hopper definitely knew each other in real life so you have to wonder if all three of them hung out.
For anyone who enjoyed watching Repo Man, there is a similar decent movie called Straight To Hell which is a fun movie to watch. It's not as good as RepoMan but still enjoyable.
I saw that extended vended food scene on channel 50, WPWR TV in Chicago (or maybe it was out of Joliet?), when it broadcast in the late eighties. I was in highschool and the next day a student teacher and I had a blast reciting as many lines as we could recall. What made it even better was that the station had replaced all the "Fuck You(s)" and "Motherfucker(s)" with "Flip You(s)" and "Mellon Farmer(s)". Password : "Flip You, Mellon Farmer!" Countersign: "Just for that, you're not in the gang anymore."
+charles jurgus That's the one we used to get in the UK too. It added an unintentionally comic edge to the film I am sure the version we got had the extended food scene and also the scene with the guy with the shaving foam half on his face...but maybe it was shorter or something.
I don't remember the shaving foam on the face... but I wish I had that vended food scene on a dvd release. There was a deluxe release years ago, but I never saw what was on it. Just a matter of time before someone digs it up and puts it out there though... damned mellon farmers!
Ya, most people don't realize that the Neutron Bomb was a defensive weapon specifically made to counter the Warsaw pact forces from over-running Europe. In-fact - unlike "Star Wars" this did make such a scenario strategically null. This caused the Soviet tacticians to have a stroke and caused a ton of push-back and propaganda to have it banned since it rendered any conventional war obsolete. Former Soviets said that if it had been deployed the CCCP might have collapsed 10 years earlier - although that might have been a stretch, it did show the level of freak-out that was going on at the time after it's inception.
I guess it could have been used to quell a uprising of your citizens as well. But then they were able to replace that with the implementation of weaponized microwave towers set up in strategic places and they look like the typical cell tower. The difference is the weaponized ones are going to have a electrical power source that looks like a substation next to it to generate the energy needed to power the magnetrons up there. And the FCC regulations maximum output for cellular communications are not anywhere close for the amount of power that a substation could produce.
the only Soviet Aggression was that they dared to defend themselves when the American, German and Vatican Backed Nazis tried to take over Russia. for yet another time, remember WW1 ?
The purpose for designing the neutron bomb was a bit different- it wasn’t going to save civilian lives. The Soviets had engineered their armored vehicles to be survivable in a nuclear warfare environment. Neutron bombs pump out enough radiation to potentially still deliver a fatal dose even to someone inside a tank. Without that a heavily-armored tank with air filtration to keep out fallout, could break through NATO lines unless directly hit by a nuke… but a standard nuke that would hit a lot of tanks would vaporize massive numbers of civilians. A neutron bomb would still kill vast numbers of civilians but just due to radiation not blast and fire. The civilians were doomed either way- but only a neutron bomb would be highly effective at killing invading Soviet tank crew while in their tanks
@@antigen4 - hmmm, I'm pretty sure I saw the original in the 80s from start to finish, and I do not remember any scene with Otto lying back against Leila talking. They discussed the aliens rotting in the Malibu trunk in a different context.
they were in a room at some weird place - forgot exactly - i think it was the place where the lady with the metal hand is ..? otto makes a pass at leila - then rebuffed, he says 'the least you could do is give me a blowjob' - and some more words are exchanged - leila says 'but what about our relationship?' to which otto replies 'fuck that'
They had their first sex when Otto was dropping Leila off at work (“girls pay me to out with them”). They got back in the car, and there’s a zip sound effect.
I must have seen it when I was 12 or 13 years old on video and then watched it about 30 times over the years, and listened to the soundtrack hundreds of times. First exposure to punk rock, first exposure to Iggy Pop, first exposure to Mexican music, first exposure to Los Angeles style urban blight... VERY INFLUENTIAL! www.ambientzero.blogspot.ca
2:41 They had to cut this scene way down. Otto catches up with the Malibu and talks to Parnell. It's not believable that Otto could've run over 25 MPH for a couple of minutes to catch him.
And Cox is the only person I've ever heard pronounce "forte" (in that context, rather than the musical one) correctly -- makes me worship him even more, if that's even possible.
This is absolutely awesome the actual inventor of fucking Neutron bomb commenting on Repo man that was really scary is that fucking technology is still around fits in a suitcase
This movie pairs with "The Rivers Edge", a the comedy and tragedy of my early genx. The second half of GenX is somewhat different, but not too much. We listened to Goth music...I got into Goth in college but you can see from my yearbooks, my year, 83, there was nobody dressed in black, and in 84, were the early adopters, about twenty...it was that obvious.
Alex Cox talking about the film while watching it is like watching some fan who had nothing to do with the movie rave about it. It's charming but annoying.
Actually estevev is their real last name. Sheen was the name change for Hollywood. I think Martin Dheen was from Spain. Emilio decided to stick with his real name since his pop and brother had already got the Sheen name pretty well established in the industry. I guess he was trying to make it in the business without feeling like he got it by riding the coat tails of the Sheen name.
tell Sam that Emilio is doing great! go see his Movie The Public its punk as fuck, a story about a librarian (Esteves) who offers brave compassion to the unhomed folks staying warm in the public library. he should get an Oscar!
J. Frank Parnell is not crazy when he talks about having 100 chest x-rays a year. If each chest x-ray is 0.1 msv, 100x0.1=10 msv which is about the same as one chest CT scan. Radiation hormesis is when low dose radiation can have a positive effect. Check it out. A CT/PET scan can top out at ~25 msv in one dose!
I liked the scene that the circle jerks were the band in the background. And the unplugged slower tempo version of shit hits the fan was gold! Funny how that song can still relate with times that are into the 21st century.
That was a good influence on me, that film. Whenever I got a job, I would always create a very strict bullshit version of a Repo Code that I would adhere to rigidly, to the exhasperation of all my workmates, Consequently, I outlasted all my workmates, managers and directors in all my jobs, and was always and still am the last man standing.
What ever you do, don't press that JOLLY RED CANDY-LIKE BUTTON ! Even though it may call to you with an irresistible urge, Do Not Press the Red Button!
Alex Cox watching and discussing Repo Man with the inventor of the neutron bomb. Fabulous.
Thankyou Alex! You made A movie that even my closest friends couldn't give A shit about, which is great because till I die I won't have to hear their recollections, and impersonations of your timeless masterpiece. Once again thankyou, and the biggest compliment I can think of to pass along is, no one has ever made A film that is similar in any capacity to "Repo Man". It Stands Alone.
Yeah, let's go get sushi and not pay!
It sure does! I'm lucky to have a lot of friends who love this film. We used to have Video Night, with RP, Buckaroo Banzi and Blade Runner. 🎉
Quentin has..many times "Smoke n Mirrors".my naive freind.Sid n Nancy.is fkin great aswell.Man.Wow Mike Nesmith.A Monkee.how it was(?)Hey dude Ive sm cash To put into a film.'?!!.Alex Cox.Is Clever in mind To be Around Where The Shits Going to happen.Alex."DONT POINT THAT.THING @,ME"..Written by 1.PETER GUTTERIDGE.My late Freind.Was 'A Dunedin.Sound'.ODailyTimes..2014.Just bk from N.Y
The Great Unwashed Fest..&',SNAPPER.Buddy..1st ep.On Flyin non.rec's.!❤Your Films Man.
Iggy ;talking re;"Getting The Op'to Do Theme Song'..Really was a Golden Op' in my career.@'time.'!Thanks to A.cox.❤
One of my most memorable experiences was sitting with my best buddy watching this at his place just a few weeks back.Thanks Alex Cox for making such a timeless masterpiece.
one of the best films of all time! never seen this before ,so thank you for posting.most of the bad language and insults i have used have come from this very film!
@@mikemckenzie6097- Repo man's got all night, every night!
Like "Mellon Farmer"
It raised eyebrows with my mom when Harry Dean Stanton yelled, "Goddamn d!psh!t gypsy d!ldo PUNKS!!"
I've been a big fan since the film came out but had never seen this - thanks!
The only question now is how did Marsellus Wallace get that briefcase?
At Zed's pawnshop.
Easy, Wallace got it from Jules and Vincent when they delivered it
But if you notice in that apartment scene, Jules and Vincent left WITHOUT the briefcase !!!
One of the greatest movies ever put to film.
Because, you know, you'll just be walking down the street, and someone will say 'plate', or 'shrimp', or 'plate of shrimp'...
Lattice of coincidence laid on top of everything
RIP Harry Dean Stanton! :(
Radu Craciun agree my freind legend rest in peace
In his famous last words... C*NTS! (Lucky, his last film)
Archie the Punk: "Aww Dukie wookie, hurt his widdle hand ?"
Duke the Punk: "F**k you Archie, just for that you're not in the gang anymore"
And Duke called it correctly. Less than 10 seconds later Archie opened the trunk, got nuked, and the only thing left of him was some ashes and a pair of boots that were on fire.
I may be mistaken, but I think the guy who is playing J Frank Parnell in this is actually Zander Schloss, who played Kevin in Repo Man, and is also well known for being the bassist in the Circle Jerks. The original actor, Fox Harris, passed away in 1988. Good work though, Alex picked the right guy to be the stand-in.
didnt alex cox say in the dvd commentary that it is the actual politician on them?
That is Zander Schloss, as J. Frank Parnell.
That is amazing, and great. I thought it was Fox Harris. He was one of the great parts about Repo Man, but then again so was HDS and Miller. What a great movie.
@@williamwoodall3538 Yes, Fox Harris played him in the movie and Fox passed away in 1988. Zander Schloss who plays Kevin in the movie plays J. Frank Parnell in this mini documentary and interview with Alex Cox.
Circle jerks song shit hit the fan . Im not sure
It happens sometimes, people just explode. Natural causes. This movie has some of the best quotes.
United Fruitcake Outlet?
The more you drive, the less intelligent you are
There are 3 cuts that i know of of Repoman - the original theater, the edited for TV (the one you see on TBS and other channels in the US), and the ShowCase (canada) one - the latter has many of the scenes herein, but other elements deleted. The TBS one is also another random set. Though I'd never seen the pool scene before.
I think cutting out the phone bashing was a mistake - shows Otto's character development. Same with him turning off the TV on his parents, becoming the adult in the situation.
Also important the post-sex scene conversation (which puts them into a relationship, later mentioned). And the snacks conversation is brilliant mundane dialog that's so very pre-Tarantino. It's a great representation of the age that people in the 80s grew up in (the 70s) and remember as kids/teens. And the eccentrencity of Parnell is so brilliant here. It's a damn loss!
yes Parnell isnt played by the original guy in this little interview thing.
The snacks conversations should've 100% made it into the finished film. It's right in line with all the other off-beat dialogue.
I loved the "generic" labelling, which one saw (with yellow instead of white paper) in REAL LIFE only a few years later. Also, Otto's parents, who've been suckered into giving away his college tuition fund to that scummy Televangelist (again, a few years before the PTL Club, with Jim and Tammy Bakker, scandal, or even Jimmy Swaggart and his romps with hookers), are lampooned as brain-dead TV addicts (makes one wonder how they bring in the bacon, given all that couch-potato(e)ing in front of the "boob tube"). Not that Otto appeared college-bound anyway, but that college fund could have proved helpful if, after a few years of learning the Repo Man trade, Otto decided to strike out on his own.
The guy who played Parnell (his name is Fox Harris) died in December of 1988, so yes somebody else is playing him. He was only 52 years old, he died way too soon. He was great as this character.
@@selfdo
About that: the movie had generic labeling but there is also actual labeling in places, too. In the grocery store where Otto gets fired (and Kevin does, too; "Louie, throw him out, too!"), at the very beginning of the scene there's big Del Monte signs showing canned peas, fruit cocktail, and other canned goods. There's prominent Coca-Cola signs sprinkled in the movie and you can see Uncle Ben's rice in the grocery store.
It's funny how the generic items make the actual products stand out, which was smart (unintentionally or not). When Otto and Bud go to the liquor store the first time, behind the counter there's a section of Crown Royal bottles and the patent purple boxes of it. There's also A LOT of Jim Beam and a prominent bottle of Chivas Regal. Most other bottles are too out of focus to be identified or they're turned around backwards so you can't see a brand name.
In the liquor store scene where Duke gets shot and Otto asks Debbi facetiously if she wants to be a Repo-wife, there's prominent Bud Light signs in the store window.
At 14:25, I don't understand why Sam Cohen is getting told "this is the sex scene". No, the sex scene was when Otto was dropping off Leila at UFO (United Fruitcake Outlet), Otto asks her out, she blows him off, then she reconsiders and says, "Ya wanna get back in the car?" (wink-wink, nudge-nudge). I agree, the scene here (post-sex conversation) is where a relationship is getting established.
At the end when Otto chooses to go into the glowing UFO/car with Miller, it's a little weird and disjointed with this scene cut out because Leila asks, "What about our relationship?" I took that to mean she and Otto had been dating and it just didn't get shown or she's reading way too much into getting a quickie with Otto in the back of Mr. Peason's Cadillac.
thanks so much... a rare treat I didn't know this footage was out there... grew skating and playing punk in Texas.. always one of my favorite movies!
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"Flipping General Telephone!"
My dad worked for General Telephone, he would have loved that line. He even said it every now and again (although with the word 'flipping replaced with something else).
Thanks Radu! I had no idea this existed. When was it made, do you know?
I saw the film on HBO or Cinemax around 87 and it instantly became my favorite film, more than a film really. I loved it so much I became obsessed with it. I feared it was some sort of accident - that it ever got made and that it made it to cable TV - and that once it left cable I would never see or hear of it again. VCRs were expensive back then and only rich people had them and video stores were just arriving and I simply had no way to save the film or ever track it down again so I borrowed a VCR and bought my first tape and recorded it for posterity. I went around showing it to every friend I had! I still have that tape.
Great story! I know what you mean by wondering if it was some kind of half ass art school/ short film, back then the premium channels didn't have A lot of content that they "owned" so sometimes they would actually show some odd films at odd times, 9:20 am on A Wednesday morning, you'd tell A friend about it, and then you would look for it, and you would never see, or hear about the film again,
but not "Repo Man". It's called A cult classic but this film is more than that, it's got everything, if this film came out now it would be praised head to toe. If A film like "No Country for Old Men" can get the recognition that it did, and some other, somewhat contemporary films like "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood" or any Wes Anderson film
"REPO MAN" on A second look by the "Critics" would have more of A lofty placing in film history. Imagine if "Repo Man" came out around the time "Pulp Fiction" came out the kids would have went nuts for it!!! But hey, it didn't and part of the reason Why it's so good is it does A Fantastic job of displaying the time, and place, it's setting, I remember that time, and this movie is A Dead On snapshot of 83'/84'.
I think it said it came out in 2002.
I believe it displayed the year in the closing credits.
@@jasonsabourin9547 Definitely. A couple of years after I saw Repo Man I finally bought a VCR and went around to all the video stores asking for films "like Repo Man" but there was nothing. It was unique. Some of the employees were also fans so I knew at least I was not alone. This, obviously, was before the web so there was no easy way for a suburban dad to connect with the obscure corners of film cults. I honestly wondered if my love for the film was just my own misguided obsession.
It wasn't until Pulp Fiction that I finally found a film and thought somebody got it, the ideas are still alive!
@@bigalexg this film is great because it's full of odd things in completely normal situations, and I either relate to that more than I would plain, uneventful, everyday life or, that's what I want in my completely normal, plain, everyday life, and this is when the "Repo code" comes in, and Bud's thoughts on "Everyday People!".
P.S. Remember the last lines of the movie? "Whoa, this is intense!" --- Otto
"Life of A Repo Man is always intense." --- Miller
... And that's what people want.....
......... If they can handle it.
Ahh...but then there's "Straight to Hell" which stars some of the cast from Repo Man AND they use some of the lines! It almost seems like a sequel for some of the characters. Me and my friends saw Repo probably 20 times and quoted lines from the film all the time. We were already into punk music so the soundtrack put it over the top. Straight to Hell is better I think. Zander Schloss doing his Weiner Kid bit is f'ing awesome! Geeez...AND it also stars a young, unknown Courtney Love whose character is simply her being her. If you love Repo Man, you HAVE to see Straight to Hell.
I love the payphone scene! Harry Dean attacking the phone. Otto inspired to grab heavy object and beat it as well, laughing. Very Beavis-like!
Important display of his character's evolution in the film. Important. As is him turing off the TV on his parents.
That was in the original movie but when I got the DVD I'm like what happened 2 that phone booth scene? Thax 4 claerafying that , ma bell back n dah day musta put a stop 2 it.
I blame society
go get some sushi, youll feel better
Bud: "I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either."
"Goddamn-dipshit-Rodriguez-gypsy-dildo-punks. I'll get your ass".
"A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations".
"Look at those assholes, ordinary fucking people. I hate 'em."
"Only an asshole gets killed for a car."
"I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees."
"The guys that make it are the guys that get in their cars at any time. Get in at 3am, get up at 4. That's why there aint a repo man I know that don't take speed."
Miller: "A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness." [Regarding tree-shaped air fresheners] "Find one in every car. You'll see."
"The life of a repo man is always intense." "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
"John Wayne was a fag. He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress."
J. Frank Parnell: "Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again."
Duke: "The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am."
Otto: "That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me."
Duke: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Doing that words before Joker
This is probably the best commentary video I have ever seen.
Don't ever take this youtube video down. Can't find these scenes anywhere else online
never will.
@@raducraciun Thank you!
Yea just don't make too much fuss that might get TH-cam's attention. If the check the algorithms and discover people are enjoying it, they might demonetize the channel, remove the video and then start censoring the push notifications from subscribers feeds. 🙄
RIP Fox Harris 1936-1988.
What a treasure! Thank you VERY MUCH for posting this.
"Hey... you want me to check the trunk?". Even as a kid, I found this line really unlikely. Still, one of my top 5 movies. :)
The line was always hysterical because no one would have ever said that. I grew up in the age where you actually got full service at the gas stations, washer fluid checked, air pressure checked, car vacuumed or swept by attendant etc...and no one would have ever said, "Hey you want me to check the truck?"
@@StephenPaulTroup Exactly! That line is perfect because there's no real reason for him to check the trunk but, the film has beautifully built up an almost anything goes mentality but, at the same time it's given the characters some kind of rational reason for them to want to open the trunk, Fantastic!
In my top three. There’s so much to like about this gem
I hope SFW is in that list Mellon Farmer! :)
He's a dumb nerd who was somehow in regular contact with the kinds of people who *wouldn't* want the contents of their trunks seen. He gets to stay out of trouble and skip on a bit of work at the same time, it makes perfect sense.
Repo was slightly ahead of its time in terms of independent movies that were to come out in the late 80' on. The deleted scenes have that in-between melancholy of youth vibe much like the movies Slaker, Clerks and Amateur (1994).
Wow, that's intense!
+Juan Meneses Limón Repo Man's always intense.
the life of a repo man is always intense.
You Damn Right.
Fox Harris' monologue about "everybody dies..." is brilliant.
Good Show! Repo man- one of my favorite films
That was intense.
A repo man’s life is always intense
18:25 J Frank Parnell seems similar to Jello Biafra in some ways
crossed with Dennis Hopper.
J Frank Parnell is infinitely cooler than that awful has-been. Just sayin'.
@@sizone HDS apparently wanted to play both Bud and J. Frank Parnell, but then Alex Cox wanted it to be two different actors, so HDS recommended Fox Harris for the role.
HDS and Dennis Hopper definitely knew each other in real life so you have to wonder if all three of them hung out.
All these scenes were rightful to have been left out.
For anyone who enjoyed watching Repo Man, there is a similar decent movie called Straight To Hell which is a fun movie to watch. It's not as good as RepoMan but still enjoyable.
I saw that extended vended food scene on channel 50, WPWR TV in Chicago (or maybe it was out of Joliet?), when it broadcast in the late eighties. I was in highschool and the next day a student teacher and I had a blast reciting as many lines as we could recall. What made it even better was that the station had replaced all the "Fuck You(s)" and "Motherfucker(s)" with "Flip You(s)" and "Mellon Farmer(s)".
Password : "Flip You, Mellon Farmer!"
Countersign: "Just for that, you're not in the gang anymore."
+charles jurgus That's the one we used to get in the UK too. It added an unintentionally comic edge to the film
I am sure the version we got had the extended food scene and also the scene with the guy with the shaving foam half on his face...but maybe it was shorter or something.
I don't remember the shaving foam on the face... but I wish I had that vended food scene on a dvd release. There was a deluxe release years ago, but I never saw what was on it. Just a matter of time before someone digs it up and puts it out there though... damned mellon farmers!
The Criterion version has it on disc two, as well as the commentary from the Anchor Bay release. It’s well worth it if you’re really into the movie.
@@xHeadcleanerx Thanks... I love the movie... I could watch it at least once every year.
"Flip you, melon farmer!" Ahaha, I saw that and forgot about it.
10:52 I don't know where these guys got their wives but the one in red on the right is a spitting image of Nina Hartley.
It's 2024 and they just announced filming on Repo man 2 with Cox as Director. Im looking forward to see if they can recreate the feel of the original.
Mike Nesmith FTW. And RIP.
the best movie ever. thanks for the outakes.
:)
I saw the deleted scenes on the TV version but I never saw the scenes with otto’s friends at the pool and the extended scenes at the house party
Feelin 7 up I’m feeling 7 up 😂
so archie was the one in the bed with debbi, not duke?
They all ran away...
Lol Quadraplegic stereo, The BS art contest, throwing in IG Farben name. Wow every snippet is gold.
Ya, most people don't realize that the Neutron Bomb was a defensive weapon specifically made to counter the Warsaw pact forces from over-running Europe. In-fact - unlike "Star Wars" this did make such a scenario strategically null. This caused the Soviet tacticians to have a stroke and caused a ton of push-back and propaganda to have it banned since it rendered any conventional war obsolete. Former Soviets said that if it had been deployed the CCCP might have collapsed 10 years earlier - although that might have been a stretch, it did show the level of freak-out that was going on at the time after it's inception.
"the Neutron Bomb was a defensive weapon" - All depends how it's deployed.
Fight chaos with kaos.
I guess it could have been used to quell a uprising of your citizens as well. But then they were able to replace that with the implementation of weaponized microwave towers set up in strategic places and they look like the typical cell tower. The difference is the weaponized ones are going to have a electrical power source that looks like a substation next to it to generate the energy needed to power the magnetrons up there. And the FCC regulations maximum output for cellular communications are not anywhere close for the amount of power that a substation could produce.
the only Soviet Aggression was that they dared to defend themselves when the American, German and Vatican Backed Nazis tried to take over Russia. for yet another time, remember WW1 ?
The purpose for designing the neutron bomb was a bit different- it wasn’t going to save civilian lives. The Soviets had engineered their armored vehicles to be survivable in a nuclear warfare environment. Neutron bombs pump out enough radiation to potentially still deliver a fatal dose even to someone inside a tank. Without that a heavily-armored tank with air filtration to keep out fallout, could break through NATO lines unless directly hit by a nuke… but a standard nuke that would hit a lot of tanks would vaporize massive numbers of civilians. A neutron bomb would still kill vast numbers of civilians but just due to radiation not blast and fire. The civilians were doomed either way- but only a neutron bomb would be highly effective at killing invading Soviet tank crew while in their tanks
The after sex scene was good to see. I always thought "But what about our relationship?" was odd. With that background it ties that in a bit better.
it was in the original though... maybe you went to get popcorn...?
Yes, indeed. Up til then, all we knew about their "relationship" was he demanded a blowjob and didn't get it. But I do agree with Alex - booooooring!
@@antigen4 - hmmm, I'm pretty sure I saw the original in the 80s from start to finish, and I do not remember any scene with Otto lying back against Leila talking. They discussed the aliens rotting in the Malibu trunk in a different context.
they were in a room at some weird place - forgot exactly - i think it was the place where the lady with the metal hand is ..? otto makes a pass at leila - then rebuffed, he says 'the least you could do is give me a blowjob' - and some more words are exchanged - leila says 'but what about our relationship?' to which otto replies 'fuck that'
They had their first sex when Otto was dropping Leila off at work (“girls pay me to out with them”). They got back in the car, and there’s a zip sound effect.
"Two hemispheres are fundamentally at odds"
I must have seen it when I was 12 or 13 years old on video and then watched it about 30 times over the years, and listened to the soundtrack hundreds of times. First exposure to punk rock, first exposure to Iggy Pop, first exposure to Mexican music, first exposure to Los Angeles style urban blight... VERY INFLUENTIAL!
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Yup...and then there's "Straight to Hell"...which I think was even better!
One of the greatest movies of that time
This is hyperdimensional and esoteric af...straight from the deepest bowels of the noosphere as Harry The "Dean" Stanton would say.
This is pure gold
Quote at 20:40 has me completely tripping. I keep thinking of the book "The Engines of God".
Hearing Sam Cohen describe the boundaries of Christian Just War Principles without mentioning burning bushels or lightning smites is so passé
2:41 They had to cut this scene way down. Otto catches up with the Malibu and talks to Parnell. It's not believable that Otto could've run over 25 MPH for a couple of minutes to catch him.
"not believable" you really wrote that
"Uh... that may not be your bag, Alex."
And Cox is the only person I've ever heard pronounce "forte" (in that context, rather than the musical one) correctly -- makes me worship him even more, if that's even possible.
Thank you ,Thank you ,Thank you!
This is absolutely awesome the actual inventor of fucking Neutron bomb commenting on Repo man that was really scary is that fucking technology is still around fits in a suitcase
until BLAMMO! Eyes melt, skin explodes....
This movie pairs with "The Rivers Edge", a the comedy and tragedy of my early genx.
The second half of GenX is somewhat different, but not too much. We listened to Goth music...I got into Goth in college but you can see from my yearbooks, my year, 83, there was nobody dressed in black, and in 84, were the early adopters, about twenty...it was that obvious.
Repo Man will forever be a superior film to Oppenheimer
Omg! He STILL says “for crying out loud”!!!
These scenes should have been included!
Alex Cox is hilarious, and yes, very punk.
“I thought I could be the director of great erotic films but… I think it’s not my fort.”
I have joined this cult . . 40 years after it came out. Just a wonderful, funny, moving, warm, hard to completely explain film.
Never seen these bits
......cool
How did I miss this film?!
11:15 Flies on what?! Must be the TV edit.
That first scene though ;)
Wait, that's the same actor who played Parnell in the movie?! I know it was only 20 or so years later, but he looks like he'd aged maybe five years.
Thanks for the upload!! :)
"Lorna Doones" is heaven basically.
"..we're sending bibles to El Salavdor" 😂🤣🤣🤣
That was really cool.
This movie changed my life. Found the tape in a Maserati in Beverly Hills - 'know what I mean?
right on thanks.
Just watched on tv few days ago alot of these scenes were in it
What about the joust,,, two old mexicanos on beat up bicycles, with broom handles
I think that's from Quick Change (where Bill Murray is a Clown/Bank Robber)
Alex Cox talking about the film while watching it is like watching some fan who had nothing to do with the movie rave about it. It's charming but annoying.
The thing I miss most about Repo Man is “The Plugz” music.. 😉
"Emilio Estevez...if that is his name!"
Actually estevev is their real last name. Sheen was the name change for Hollywood. I think Martin Dheen was from Spain. Emilio decided to stick with his real name since his pop and brother had already got the Sheen name pretty well established in the industry. I guess he was trying to make it in the business without feeling like he got it by riding the coat tails of the Sheen name.
tell Sam that Emilio is doing great! go see his Movie The Public its punk as fuck, a story about a librarian (Esteves) who offers brave compassion to the unhomed folks staying warm in the public library. he should get an Oscar!
Inventor of the neutron bomb, now there is something to be proud of.
I'd be impressed if it had managed to kill the cockroaches. 😆
@@Tumbleweed-vh4pt the wokeroaches?
When was this made?
+wingitprod Never mind... 2005:-)
+wingitprod 1984.
Nigelxman I meant the doc.
wingitprod Oh sorry! :-)
Released in 1984. Shot in 1983. Go to Wikipedia.
J. Frank Parnell is not crazy when he talks about having 100 chest x-rays a year. If each chest x-ray is 0.1 msv, 100x0.1=10 msv which is about the same as one chest CT scan. Radiation hormesis is when low dose radiation can have a positive effect. Check it out. A CT/PET scan can top out at ~25 msv in one dose!
Has there been a blu ray of this yet?
The neutron bomb can actually save the planet, it's a beautiful creation.
😂 what
to be fair nukes have brought much peace to the world, although ironically
repo man is always intense...
'Hey Debbi, watch _this..._ '
Society made me this way! Lets Eat Susi and Nott-PA...
They'll pay?
I came for Suicidal
all i asked for is a pepsi.
@@Stinky95030 - AND SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME!!
One of the formative movies of my youth.
this is cool. one of the best cult films around. the opening credits is the best.
The opening might be the best ever
I liked the scene that the circle jerks were the band in the background. And the unplugged slower tempo version of shit hits the fan was gold! Funny how that song can still relate with times that are into the 21st century.
@@Tumbleweed-vh4pt couldn’t agree more. I love the end of that scene where Otto says “can’t believe I used to like these guys” 😆
I have the same vcr as sam cohen.
Thank goodness they didnt use bluescreen they used real cars and cameras
Was that not a happening deal?
Alex Cox looks like hes taken plenty of drugs. He looks like a vet
Pass The Fist?
Seems good they left these parts out
This, Blue Velvet and Blade Runner...nuff said
and SFW and Eraser Head and more..so many more, this was the Golden age of Film, it's peak, and the end of an era .. sad
They couldn't afford the rights to Burning Down the House? Either he's joking or David Burn is not as cool as his image portrays.
3:48
Baby boomers covered with cobwebs, who vote for Raygun and Trump
That was a good influence on me, that film. Whenever I got a job, I would always create a very strict bullshit version of a Repo Code that I would adhere to rigidly, to the exhasperation of all my workmates, Consequently, I outlasted all my workmates, managers and directors in all my jobs, and was always and still am the last man standing.
What ever you do, don't press that JOLLY RED CANDY-LIKE BUTTON ! Even though it may call to you with an irresistible urge, Do Not Press the Red Button!
Reminds me of a Ren & Stimpy episode.
(Space Madness)
Lorna Dunes
Eyes melt Teeth explode, everybody dead,