Rude Awakening (1989)

Réalisateurs:

David Greenwalt
Aaron Russo

Scénaristes (WGA):

Neil Levy (story)
Neil Levy (screenplay) ...

Date de sortie:

16 août 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Comedie

Accroche:

Two hippies come back from 1969 to get the bad news. Nobody wants to save the world anymore. They just want to buy it.

Intrigue:

In the 1960s, two hippies go off into the jungle to evade the FBI. When they come back to New York in the 1980s, their fellow hippie friends have become rich yuppies.

Plot Keywords:

1960s | FBI | 1980s | Hippie | Political Humor

Avis des utilisateurs:

Rude Joke On Itself

Ensemble

Dion Anderson	...	Dr. Binibon
Frederikke Borge	...	Mona
Peter Boyden	...	Dr. Childs
Robert Carradine	...	Sammy
Rae Dawn Chong
Rodney Clark	...	Cowboy
Elzbieta Czyzewska
Cliff De Young	...	Brubaker
David Eigenberg	...	Lawrence
Ed Fry	...	Agent Drome
Amy Glass	...	1st Twin
Becky Glass	...	2nd Twin
Julie Hagerty	...	Petra
Hugh Hayes	...	Student on street
Buck Henry	...	Lloyd Stool
Michelle Hurd	...	Student on street
Edward James Hyland	...	Man at Newsstand (as Edward Hyland)
Rosanna Iversen	...	La Fleck Model
B.J. Jefferson	...	Newscaster
Rob Kramer	...	Aaron Russo
Louise Lasser	...	Bonnie
Timothy Leary	...	Diner at Ronnie's
Deena Levy	...	Wanda
Mark M. Lewis	...	Faculty Member
Michael Louden	...	La Fleck Model
Michael Luciano	...	Martin
Owen Lund	...	F.B.I. Agent
Cheech Marin	...	Jesus Monteya
Andrea Martin	...	April
David McCarthy	...	Hippie in beginning
Basia McCoy	...	Woman on Street
Peter Nevargic	...	Julian
William Paulson	...	Phil
Eric Roberts	...	Fred
Dulcy Rogers	...	Student on street
Julia Rose	...	Hippie Child
John Rowe	...	Student
John Rowe Jr.	...	Student
Jerry Rubin	...	Diner at Ronnie's
Bobby Seale	...	Diner at Ronnie's
Tom Sizemore	...	Ian
Glenn Taranto	...	Bob Hope (scenes deleted)
Davidson Thomson	...	Amos
Cindy Williams	...	June

Durée:

100 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Dolby SR

Classification:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-12 | Australia:M | UK:15 | USA:R

Lieux de tournage:

Wekiwa Springs State Park - 1800 Wekiwa Circle, Apopka, Florida, USA

Société:

Aaron Russo Productions

Anecdotes:

Cut from the film was a scene where Cheech Marin has an acid flashback during which he imagines the three FBI agents to be Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, and Henry Kissinger.

Guillemet:

Petra: Where's the lobster?
Jesus Monteya: "I am the lobster, goo goo g'joob."

Bande son:

Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Rude Joke On Itself

This appeared at a convenient point in time for pop culture self-examination through the movies; the narrative intent is that we can review the 1980s through the lens of 1960s thinking.

It starts off with a 'reprogramming' of a dropout via LSD and movie indoctrination. This could have been something clever...instead it deteriorates by hallucinating through "Up In Smoke" and Leone westerns.

The 'ideal world' is depicted as "Woodstock", with the main characters stolen out of "Easy Rider". They take an excursion through "Salvador" and "The Mosquito Coast".

The whole thing, production-wise, staggers about in a manner as clumsy as "Where the Buffalo Roam" and "Animal House". It resolves through "Deer Hunter", "Stripes" and the Beatles' 'Revolution'.

The point of all this is to tear down the detached, colorless, sexless, 'boozh-wa' 1980s and reindoctrinate the audience to 'the truth' with the 'romantic' drug of the movie. An audience is assembled in the movie to first provoke (in us)the intended feeling of 'guilt', and the second time to sublimate into 'activism'.

As I wrote earlier, it's just not clever. The problem is, it doesn't know how to target the comedic center. Everything ends up as a target, including Roberts because he doesn't know how to play this in a smart way -- there's no winking at the viewer. The producers thought this was 'affirming', oblivious to the joke on themselves.