{"id":17242,"date":"2025-02-19T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17242"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:54:30","slug":"death-race-2000-1975-paul-bartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17242","title":{"rendered":"Death Race 2000 (1975, Paul Bartel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Schwarzenegger starred in <em>The Running Man<\/em>, before Stephen King even wrote it, Schwarz&#8217;s rival Stallone starred in a better movie about a deadly future game show (based on an Ib Melchior novel).  In a totalitarian USA (I cannot relate) David Carradine is a clone puppet masked hero representing the establishment, targeted by the resistance but secretly also planning to destroy the president, as belatedly revealed to his navigator\/spy Simone Griffeth.  Stallone is his toughest competitor Machine Gun Joe &#8211; other quickly-dispatched competitors are Mary Woronov, nazi Roberta Collins (between <em>Caged Heat<\/em> and <em>Eaten Alive<\/em>) and Martin Kove (professional <em>Karate Kid<\/em> antagonist).  Most get blown up, the nazi takes a Wile E Coyote detour off a cliff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deathrace4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>A familiar pose:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deathrace2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Frankenstein kills the president and so becomes president &#8211; is that really how it works?  I&#8217;m not very smart now but I was even worse in 2012, so I won&#8217;t link to my review of the remake, which is probably fine though I&#8217;m not running out to rewatch\/reassess it, and we&#8217;ll see if the rumored <em>Running Man<\/em> remake comes out.  Am I hallucinating, or did Eric have an Amiga game based on this movie?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deathrace3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Bartel is protective of his creation:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deathrace1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Schwarzenegger starred in The Running Man, before Stephen King even wrote it, Schwarz&#8217;s rival Stallone starred in a better movie about a deadly future game show (based on an Ib Melchior novel). In a totalitarian USA (I cannot relate) David Carradine is a clone puppet masked hero representing the establishment, targeted by the resistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,1309,1524,3020,3019,3371],"class_list":["post-17242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-automobile","tag-dystopia","tag-mary-woronov","tag-paul-bartel","tag-stallone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17283,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions\/17283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}