Road to Nowhere (3)

o esforço para encontrar a actriz que será Velma Duran foi afinal o esforço para encontrar Laurie Bird, entrevistada entre quinhentas candidatas e com quem o realizador se envolveu para além da filmagem.

Mike Collett-White notes that Hellman acknowledged that "Sossamon's character had clear parallels with Laurie Bird, who starred in two of Hellman's movies during her brief career. Once romantically linked to Hellman, according to online biographies, she committed suicide in 1979 in her mid-20s. 'We didn't think about that when we were making the movie, but as an afterthought we realized how close this character was to her character,' Hellman told Reuters in an interview. 'After the fact we realized that this really is a kind of tragic story that is very similar to the tragic story of Laurie, and so that's why we dedicated it (to her).'" (daqui) o olhar vago de Laurie, que funcionou tão bem num excelente road movie, e não tão bem, mais tarde, num demi-noir.



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"there's nothing like building up an old automobile from scratch and wiping out one of these detroit machines. That will give you a set of emotions that will stay with you; you know what I mean?"