Hay películas basadas en hechos reales, en novelas, en cómics, en videojuegos, en otras películas… no recuerdo ninguna, aparte de Convoy, de Sam Peckimpah, basada en una canción(*):
Convoy, de C.W. Mccall:
[On the CB] (CB: canal de radio ciudadano)
Ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck. You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c'mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it's clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon. Yeah, that's a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy...
Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."
[Chorus]
'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
[On the CB]
Ah, breaker, Pig Pen, this here's the Duck. And, you wanna back off them hogs? Yeah, 10-4, 'bout five mile or so. Ten, roger. Them hogs is gettin' in-tense up here.
By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
We had eighty-five trucks in all.
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
"We about to go a-huntin' bear."
[Chorus]
'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a great big convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
[On the CB]
Ah, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that, Pig Pen? Negatory, Pig Pen; you're still too close. Yeah, them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses. Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten.
Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.
[On the CB]
Ah, Rubber Duck to Sodbuster, come over. Yeah, 10-4, Sodbuster? Lissen, you wanna put that micra-bus in behind that suicide jockey? Yeah, he's haulin' dynamite, and he needs all the help he can get.
Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
And prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a dog-goned dime.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4."
[Chorus]
'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy! Ah, 10-4, Pig Pen, what's your twenty?
Convoy! OMAHA? Well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer shure. Well, mercy
Convoy! sakes, good buddy, we gonna back on outta here, so keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your...
Convoy! tail. We'll catch you on the flip-flop. This here's the Rubber Duck on the side.
Convoy! We gone. 'Bye,'bye.
Pienso que Convoy ha envejecido mal. A pesar de tratarse de un intento de reescritura del western encuentro que esta película de Peckimpah desmerece de sus incursiones en el género. No en vano se puede decir del director que fue el creador del western crepuscular. Convoy está demasiado ligada a su condición temporal, la década de los setenta del siglo XX (sólo con escribirlo ya me entran escalofríos… los setenta), a la aparatosidad de su puesta en escena y a la estereotipada síntesis de su argumento musical.
(A propósito, la memoria me traicionó y buscaba en la revisión de la película de Peckimpah una escena que en realidad pertenecía a Smokey and the bandit… nuevo escalofrío)
Al menos la revisión sirvió para descubrir al propio Peckimpah dirigiendo un equipo de rodaje sobre una camioneta... sí, ahí, no mires al sudoroso Pato, mira por la ventanilla... el Jefe:
Pienso que una de las razones por las que Deathproof de Tarantino no me gustó es porque el rescate-reescritura de las películas de carreteras tenía los mismos defectos que las películas de los setenta (uf): Eran básicamente aburridas.
Metal, polvo y aceite y apenas argumento.
Quede Convoy como paradigma y representante de ese tipo de cine caduco desde su nacimiento.
(*) Después busque en IMDB el “plot keyword” “based on song” y dio 99 resultados: alguna con el título de una canción de los Beatles (en realidad basada en álbumes enteros y precursoras del videoclip musical), una de Aldo Guthrie (en realidad un biopic), unos cuantos villancicos laicos, y otras canciones y títulos desconocidos… es decir, que se puede decir, con la arrogancia del ignorante, que Convoy es prácticamente la única película basada enteramente en una canción.
Convoy, de C.W. Mccall:
[On the CB] (CB: canal de radio ciudadano)
Ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck. You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c'mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it's clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon. Yeah, that's a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy...
Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."
[Chorus]
'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
[On the CB]
Ah, breaker, Pig Pen, this here's the Duck. And, you wanna back off them hogs? Yeah, 10-4, 'bout five mile or so. Ten, roger. Them hogs is gettin' in-tense up here.
By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
We had eighty-five trucks in all.
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
"We about to go a-huntin' bear."
[Chorus]
'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a great big convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
[On the CB]
Ah, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that, Pig Pen? Negatory, Pig Pen; you're still too close. Yeah, them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses. Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten.
Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.
[On the CB]
Ah, Rubber Duck to Sodbuster, come over. Yeah, 10-4, Sodbuster? Lissen, you wanna put that micra-bus in behind that suicide jockey? Yeah, he's haulin' dynamite, and he needs all the help he can get.
Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
And prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a dog-goned dime.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4."
[Chorus]
'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy! Ah, 10-4, Pig Pen, what's your twenty?
Convoy! OMAHA? Well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer shure. Well, mercy
Convoy! sakes, good buddy, we gonna back on outta here, so keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your...
Convoy! tail. We'll catch you on the flip-flop. This here's the Rubber Duck on the side.
Convoy! We gone. 'Bye,'bye.
Pienso que Convoy ha envejecido mal. A pesar de tratarse de un intento de reescritura del western encuentro que esta película de Peckimpah desmerece de sus incursiones en el género. No en vano se puede decir del director que fue el creador del western crepuscular. Convoy está demasiado ligada a su condición temporal, la década de los setenta del siglo XX (sólo con escribirlo ya me entran escalofríos… los setenta), a la aparatosidad de su puesta en escena y a la estereotipada síntesis de su argumento musical.
(A propósito, la memoria me traicionó y buscaba en la revisión de la película de Peckimpah una escena que en realidad pertenecía a Smokey and the bandit… nuevo escalofrío)
Al menos la revisión sirvió para descubrir al propio Peckimpah dirigiendo un equipo de rodaje sobre una camioneta... sí, ahí, no mires al sudoroso Pato, mira por la ventanilla... el Jefe:
Pienso que una de las razones por las que Deathproof de Tarantino no me gustó es porque el rescate-reescritura de las películas de carreteras tenía los mismos defectos que las películas de los setenta (uf): Eran básicamente aburridas.
Metal, polvo y aceite y apenas argumento.
Quede Convoy como paradigma y representante de ese tipo de cine caduco desde su nacimiento.
(*) Después busque en IMDB el “plot keyword” “based on song” y dio 99 resultados: alguna con el título de una canción de los Beatles (en realidad basada en álbumes enteros y precursoras del videoclip musical), una de Aldo Guthrie (en realidad un biopic), unos cuantos villancicos laicos, y otras canciones y títulos desconocidos… es decir, que se puede decir, con la arrogancia del ignorante, que Convoy es prácticamente la única película basada enteramente en una canción.
