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SMC Pod #232: The Road Trip movie
The Road Trip movie is a fertile sub-genre that allows all sorts of variations. You get broad warm comedies like National Lampoon's Vacation, Eurotrip, and Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Wim Wenders used the road trip to explore character growth in his incredible 1974 Alice in the Cities as did Alexander Payne in his hilarious and painful 2004 Sideways. The Road trip movie is so pliable you can make world classics like Ingmar Bergman's 1957 Wild Strawberries which used the road trip structure to allow a modernist free form exploration of memory, dream, rumination, inner monologue. None other…
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