1)[Bobby
wants plain toast, which isn't on the menu.] Bobby:
I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise,
no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee. Waitress: A
number two, chicken salad sandwich, hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise,
and a cup of coffee. Anything else? Bobby: Yeah,
now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check
for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules. Waitress:
You want me to hold the chicken, huh? Bobby: I want
you to hold it between your knees.
2)Catherine:
You're a very strange person, Robert. I mean, what would it come to? If a person
has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family,
work, something... how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask
for it?
3)Palm
Apodaca: Hey, follow that truck. They know the best places to stop. Rayette:
That's an old maid's tale. Palm Apodaca: Bullshit...Truck
drivers are the only ones that know the best places to stop on the road. Rayette:
Salesmen and cops are the ones. If you'd ever waitressed, honey, you'd
know that. Palm Apodaca: Don't call me honey, mac.
Rayette: Don't call me Mac, honey.
4)Bobby:
I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm
getting away from things that get bad if I stay.
Review:Five
Easy Pieces is a deceptively simple movie, but in my opinion it
is one of the most complex and interesting films of its time. Jack Nicholson
(The Shining, As
Good As It Gets, The Last Detail,One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown)
plays Robert Dupea, a man from a privileged background who seems desperate
to avoid it. Dupea is a coasting former child prodigy, a man trying
to run from feelings of inadequacy and alienation by roaming from one
shitty job to another. Nicholson's performance in this fascinating character
study brought him his first Best Actor Oscar nomination. The film has
one of my favorite endings. -Review by Aaron Caldwell
