Repo Man 4K 1984 Ultra HD 2160p

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An angry guy with an earring in his ear, fired from a supermarket for his unflappable temper and his uncomplicated habit of sending everyone to three letters, meets a confiscator, and it changes his life. These men are supposed to seize cars bought on installment payments if the buyers stop paying their installments. The FBI is searching for a Chevy Malibu automobile with a radioactive alien corpse in the trunk. Anyone who opens the trunk turns to ash. Two rival confiscation teams begin the hunt for the dangerous car, driven by a nuclear physicist.

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In 1984 the way of the movie 'The Expropriator' to the wide screens was thorny to the point of impossibility, because during the shooting of the movie completely new people came to the helm of Universal company, who decided to revise the old management's views on black and white: black henceforth became white, and white - black. Thus, literally at the finish line of the green corridor, which prepared for 'Repo Man' ex-management Universal, the debut feature film work of writer and director Alex Cox was waiting for almost a red light. With the combined efforts of the team working on the movie, managed to achieve a short-term switch of this fateful traffic light to yellow flashing and push the movie to wide screens.

However, audiences by no means immediately welcomed the movie with open arms. The first date of the movie with the mass audience was held on several screens in Chicago and Los Angeles, where the movie was actually shot, it was short-lived, and the box office receipts did not so much that and shook the imagination. However, the soundtrack to the movie, which included works by famous American punk bands of the time, and the title theme was a composition written and performed by Iggy Pop himself, gave the movie a second chance at wide distribution - this time in New York. The second attempt turned out to be more successful both in terms of the duration of its stay on the wide screen, and in the financial sense: in the end, 'The Expropriator' expropriated a tidy sum at the box office, even though by the time it was released again on the wide screen, the movie had already made it to both cable television and video stores.

As for the plot, at its center is a young man named Otto (Emilio Estevez), whose life has entered the blackest of all: First cool temper and youthful irascibility forced him to leave any, but still a workplace in the supermarket, a little later he had to end the relationship with one of his friends and break up with a girl, which he caught together in bed, and finally the world crumbled under Otto's feet when he learned that all the family savings (including a thousand dollars that could potentially go into his pocket) his parents had given to the needy people of El Salvador in need of a Bible through a television preacher. During this vulnerable period in his life, Otto was recruited by a professional expropriator (a man whose job was to seize cars from persistent loan defaulters) named Bud (Harry Dean Stanton).

Had Otto known what the next operation to seize a '64 Chevrolet Malibu would turn into, he probably would have chosen some other, calmer and safer way of making money. As a result of a chain of legitimate coincidences, a noble mess was brewed, the main ingredients of which were: an alien corpse, special services, a gang of punks, which included the already mentioned ex-friend and ex-girlfriend of Otto, Otto himself and his colleagues in the agency, competitors of this agency in the person of two Latinos, 'Chevrolet Malibu' and a kamikaze scientist behind the wheel of this car. However, this is not the only mess to be noted. It is rather difficult to define the genre of the movie, because there is a peculiar mush: there are elements of comedy in the movie, there is something from action movie, if you want you can see a little bit of science fiction, scientific and not so much. What this porridge frankly lacks is a romantic component, just as an ordinary, edible porridge may lack butter.

Despite this shortcoming, the movie still became iconic for its time, and not so long ago, in 2008, a study conducted by a group of Los Angeles Times reporters and editors ranked it among the top 25 movies made in the last 25 years set on the streets of the City of Angels. For Alex Cox, the creator of 'Repo Man', the movie was a good springboard in his career, because the debut work was followed by the acclaimed film 'Sid and Nancy', shot this time in Cox's homeland - in the UK, and the claimed right to appear in the credits for 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' as a screenwriter.

Asked what the movie is really about, its author is categorical: 'Nuclear war'. Indeed, if you watch the movie between frames, there is an allegory of the nuclear threat - the corpse of an alien in the trunk of a Chevy Malibu. By the way, on this occasion, one of the functionaries on whom at one time depended on the hit 'Repo Man' at the box office, said approximately as follows: “I hope this movie will not be shown in the Soviet Union.

The 'warm' relationship between Alex Cox and Universal, somehow connected with the movie 'Repo Man', found its continuation in 2009, when Cox's new project called 'Repo Chick' was close to completion. The movie giant made claims to the Englishman and demanded to stop the production of the movie, considering it a sequel to 'Repo Man', the release of which, according to the contract signed in the mid-eighth of the last century, if anyone has the rights, then only Universal. Despite the next obstacles on the part of Universal, the new work of Alex Cox still saw the light - its premiere was held at the 66th International Venice Film Festival. By the way, in spring 2010 the movie 'Repo Men' produced by Universal will be released, but it has nothing to do with 'The Expropriator' and Alex Cox - it's a different story, as they say.