Nashville (1975) Part 2

Nashville is maverick director/producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half-hour epic study of American culture, show-business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the 1970s. Its emergence at the end of two troubling eras (Watergate and the Vietnam War) and on the eve of the country's Bicentennial celebrations signaled that it was commenting upon the confused state of American society. Its free-flowing narrative (from a screenplay by screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury) revealed the shallowness of American life - political emptiness and show-business commercialism are equated.

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• Jeff
• Goldblum
• hollywood

[blinkzone1]

Did you see the big American jet and the small propeller plane Barbara Jean enters out at? haha.

[suddenlyitsobvious]

I know everyone always tips their hats at the big names while emptying themselves of all critical thought, raving about the likes of Altman but I find the schizophrenic bombardment of the viewer with constantly interrupted loud scenes a display of arrogance.

So we are shown everything in the US from entertainment to politics is a big show. Must we be 'fascinated' with the 'intelligence' & 'pertinence', the depth of this 'cultural critique'? I'm not.

It's just vulgar nihilism disguised as art.

[RonAlmeida]

Most directors make their actors larger than life and turn them into stars. Altman turns stars into smaller than life actors. He even manages to embarrasses the viewer.

[hultonclint]

Wait, a female country singer with dark hair? Not possible anymore

[MissMael]

Good Lord the seventies' outfits, there are so many crazy clothes to look at.