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I just read this as well

Arnie did the same thing when he said: I know now why you cry...but realize it is something I can never do....

Yeah it almost is the real thing

Acting is something u got it or u dont. Rest is all bs

Daniel Febrizio :(

Me too!

You must all suffer from Alzheimer's.

Same here. It's comforting to sense that degree of authentic emotion. Just an incredible performance.

Yeah, like great music or art, it sort of reminds you of what is possible with a talented, committed cast and crew. This movie gets lost in the shuffle sometimes with a decade chock full of more talked about films. Chinatown, The Godfathers, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Serpico, The Deer Hunter, Star Wars, Rocky, Nashville......but this one has a gravitas and sincerity about it that makes it endearing. I would call it the crisis of The Underachiever, along with all the cultural angst and turmoil of the time period.

omg :')

luis I also came to look for this scene because of the song... its awesome ❤

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It gave me Chills when i heard the same dialogues!

PRECISELY lol so sublime

He dose a great Indian and black lesbian too.

+Violet Newstead his Asian grandmother is perfect

+Phoenix Zappa More believable as a black lesbian.

*KIMERIE TATE, JACK IS NOW 80 YEARS OLD! CAN YA IMAGINE THAT!?¿*

Imagine being too rough to fit in with your uptight classical family, but too refined to fit in with the average Joe

passing this along only as a fellow jack fan...in case it grabs you as much as it did me...jack actually wrote this scene...kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLWgepSGs7PXeJ8.html

Gary Oldman and Christian Bale come to mind. Especially Bale. Gary Oldman in THE CONTENDER and THE PROFESSIONAL. Christian Bale in AMERICAN HUSTLE , THE BIG SHORT and the creepiest movie you ever want to see -THE MACHINIST>

Jack wrote the dialog for this scene himself

I just watched this movie again the other day. I’m not super crazy about the scene. It does seem a little bit forced. I’m gonna watch it this particular scene again right now to see what I think at this moment. I think the problem with the seniors, the movie doesn’t set it up. Apparently the green play his mother dies and he doesn’t go to the funeral and that’s kind of when he leaves the family and starts drifting… I mean it’s not all very clear. iMovie seems to indicate that he took off from the family about three years ago. Maybe that’s when his mother died. But there’s no real set up for him to have to come And reconcile with his father… It’s hardly even an ocean or a rumor in the movie… It’s mostly about his restlessness… And the fact that he comes from this kind of wealthy background… Maybe they’re pretentious… Maybe they’re petit bourgeois, There’s one credit card said… Maybe they’re real old money and classy and full of culture and everything like that. Anyway, again, my main point is that he comes to do this reconciliation with his father with whom he can’t quite have a conversation but the movie doesn’t really set up this relationship with his father. So this thing doesn’t really land as emotionally as it might.

This was really amazing method acting

This was a really beautiful and insightful comment to read, thank you so much for sharing this.

@@davetrachtenberg6855 Thank you for appreciating my commentary! I just spoke from my heart. ❤ Five Easy Pieces is one of my all time fave movies because it just hits so close to home for me.

Reading this made me tear up, because I too coasted through life with the thirst of Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise from On The Road.....

Very beautiful, thank you for sharing!

The Cinema Cynic This movie was before he became a caricature of himself. He’s great then, too. But he was just Jack. Not “JACK”!!!!!!!!!

charley downey I wouldn't call The Shining non-serious

You should watch Chinatown and Carnal Knowledge as well. There's alot of movies he's acted in that are great acting performances.

Watch "About Schmidt" to see Jack at his absolute best. He plays a man who goes through life "playing it safe" emotionally and with his interpersonal relationships only to realize he's completely "bankrupt" as a fully developed human being in his twilight years.

He was the best actor of the 70s

The Warrior He was refused by what could've been his "one true love;" because she thought that his own cynicism would envelope them. He sought to make amends with his wheel chair-bound father but he was incapable of any indignation or response. Finally, he comes to realize he's had enough of his life and whatever he had before all this drama occurred, so he seeks a new persona elsewhere.

+Lucas Davis True. It's the Kardashian family's favourite art film. Well. Not sure about that. But it's mine.

+The Warrior There is no moral message or story "ARC" but don't worry. The block buster movies made now all have arc, resolution - and someone (usually a hero) "see's the light" or "wins the game" or " loses the game and sees his moral lacking" so no need to worry about this type of film, anymore. (unless you watch Sundance films, and i do)

+LO BO you are stupid, this movie has such a strong message. you just dont know where to look. try again.

I just thought it was a great movie. Maybe there's a moral or maybe there isn't, but the impact it had on me was one of great magnitude. "Five Easy Pieces" can be a divisive picture and that's fine (some films are like that), but I think that it leaves one feeling something, whether it's a feeling of emptiness or a feeling of poignant introspection. I love it, but it doesn't mean anyone else has to.

You just gotta ask him nicely.

It's a great scene, and one of my all time favorites, but I'm fairly certain it was not done in one take. There's clearly at least one sound edit early on, and much more noticable... if you focus attention on Jack's hair, a wild tuft on the left of center is smoothed out and gone for his last few lines. I know many will say I'm nit picking but there are people on crew that are suppose to watch for continuity issues like that.

He was the best actor of the 70s

It is not Nicolson's fault that most of the movies he now gets offered are crap that he can just mug through. He is still a great actor. Hollywood has gone down the pan not Jack.

@@matthewcoombs3282 There's some truth to that. He became famous during one of Hollywood's golden ages. Now most movies emphasize special effects over great human stories, and an actor with his gifts rarely gets the opportunity to work with first rate material.

Yes. he's still exploring and applying his craft here. later, like around Witches of Eastwick, he played to a caricature. Still charismatic, but became a performer rather than an actor.

Ultimately, Bobby Dupea is a tragic figure. He chose to live a free-wheeling life of abandonment to himself and unconcern for the people he took advantage of, only to find that his carnal way of life is empty and meaningless.

He's definitely really crying. He dug down deep and found some real pain to focus on

And i think he was “really” walking when the scene started

Nope one flew over the Cuckoos nest did

Watch it it’s great.

which song?

And "The Last Detail." Excellent film.

@@susanmurphy958 Also "Carnal Knowledge."

A great piece of Cinema. The acting, the writing, the direction, etc. Jack is at his best here.

What are his other favorites?

Gwen Lanter he was a man child who treated his partner terribly. He couldn’t cut the cord because he was a coward. How was he a sweetheart?

@@jonathankr Her comment is so patently false I have to think she's being sarcastic. He almost always (with the exception of "About Schmidt") plays smart ass cynics. Here he's playing a man who deserted his family for a lifestyle of carnality and irresponsibility.

Hollywood discovered it could make more money from movie franchisees selling plastic toys and merch and that they made more money than films with adult themes.

The movie is a contemporary adaptation of the biblical parable, "The Prodigal Son". Music represents spirituality. Bobby Dupea gives it up for carnality ("a far country"). Unlike the Bible story, this prodigal finds his father incapable of welcoming him home and his older brother in no mood to forgive his abandonment of music (spirituality). Tragically, the prodigal realizes he's thrown away something of lasting value for the temporal and ultimately worthless way of the flesh.

i heartily disagree that you need to be a musician to understand it and I'm not sure that's fully accurate for the character. However, I feel you, as a musician, learned something from it and I'm glad it was meaningful for you

@@falcon5467 Good observations, mate. This scene is the only one in the film wherein Nicholson's character, Bobby, expresses vulnerability. In three minutes of time, we, the audience, are provided insight into the character we have watched throughout the duration of the film. By the film's conclusion, we see Nicholson's character confirm that he will do as he has always done: futilely run, carrying on with no direction in life, avoiding responsibility and commitment (guised as freedom), in a vain quest for fulfilment he shall never find.

@@BP-sk7lp Thanks. The final scene in the gas station men's room where Bobby is staring at himself in the mirror is his painful self-examination: his attractive physical body and his clever mind that he once took so much pride in are now his prison of flesh and mental despair in which he is condemned to spend the rest of his life trapped inside. BTW, when Jack Nicolson was asked which character in his movie career he identified with the most he simply said, "Bobby".

@@falcon5467 Also, when he departs for Alaska with the trucker, he realizes that he has forgotten to bring his coat, but doesn't care.