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Actors: Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Bellaver
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Blue Collar |
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BLUE COLLAR is a movie cowritten and directed by Paul Schrader in 1977.
Three friends, Keitel, Pryor and Kotto, work in the same car factory in Detroit. Each one of them has money problems and lives on a day by day basis. Work is hard, the wages low and the foremen demanding.
One day, they decide to steal the cash from the local union office but find nothing in the safe but $600 and a notebook that is the inventory of the illegal loans made with the money of the workers. Kotto proposes to blackmail the union leaders who, according to him, should be ready to pay $10,000 in order to recover the precious notebook.
But soon things get bad and Kotto is murdered. Keitel decides to send his family away and the union's main boss offers Pryor a job as foreman if he gives back the notebook. Will Keitel and Pryor's friendship survive this dramatic situation?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Blue Collar |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- con-artist/white collar crime
Blackmail & Seduction?
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- blue collar worker
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- blue collar
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) very skinny
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
- orgies
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
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