HOW MANY SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT MOVIES DID THEY MAKE MOVIE
I’m not denigrating the movie - far from it - mindless fun and endless vehicle crashes fill an entertainment void. For Smokey and the Bandit, it’s all drive from Georgia to Texas, pick up beer in Texarkana, return to Atlanta within 28 hours and collect $80,000. This article didn’t require the same level of thought or analysis that I discovered with Thelma and Louise, where geography served as an integral interwoven plot element. Now my recent description of the beer De Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren as a possible premise for a high-class remake of Smokey and the Bandit leads me to address that topic as well. Last time this led to my Thelma and Louise Route Map. I feel like it’s almost a public service for me to provide further elaboration. I’ll reference a title on a page and suddenly it gets a bunch of hits from the outside world. It wasn’t my intention to focus a series of 12MC articles on roadtrip movies. Nonetheless it made a great premise for a pedal-to-the-metal action and smash-up flick. Try not to shudder when you consider those dark days. Imagine a terrible time when people actually bootleged Coors beer because they perceived it to be the best thing available. Its lack of geographic ubiquity created quite a mystique during an era when domestic brewing limped towards its horrible nadir. I know it’s crazy.Ĭan anyone alive today imagine going this far out of their way for Coors? Talk about the triumph of marketing and advertising! Coors wasn’t available outside of a few western U.S. The whole time, a policeman or “smokey” in CB slang (Jackie Gleason) chases them. They need to bring it to some rich guy with more money than sense under a tight deadline.
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The Bandit (Burt Reynolds) and his sidekicks (Jerry Reed and Sally Field) have to pick up and deliver a truckload of monstrously awful beer. Or check out the YouTube clip if you prefer a visually-oriented overview.
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The Internet Movie Database exists for readers who simply must know more about it.