Mark Andrus wrote it - is it therefore his fault that the title is awful? I have told everyone this before - titles are important. What should this have been called? Even The Grandfather would have been better, even though it's not much better. My Grandfather the Cunt would have been a good title, but there might have been one or two marketing issues with that one. Grandpa Next Door? Shangri-Lasville? The Singer Not the Song? The Landlord?
But my most important jotting is about seat belts. When they come back from the fun fair I noticed the girl (Sterling Jerins) is not wearing a seat belt. I passed on this observation to my co-pilot Q, and she said 'Cars that old didn't have seat belts'. According to IMCDB, the car featured is a 1967 Mercedes 300 SE convertible. With a six litre V8 engine. And power steering. Which will cost you now upwards of $100,000. Now are you telling me that German car designers in 1967 would not have included seat belts? (The modern seat belt was invented in 1959.) Of course they would. In fact I have seen that model car being sold and of course it had seat belts.
At the end of the film the father picks up his son from prison and they drive off, not having put on their seat belts, and there's a crash and they both go through the windscreen and die.
Oh by the way it's
He even picks up the dog and lets it sit in the front without a seat belt. In fact that's what this film should have been called. Dog Without Seat Belt. By Jim Jarmusch. No - Aki Kaurismaki.
The apartments look identical - how come she doesn't have a spare bedroom then and he does?
A Spare Room. There you go. Great title.
(Actually I'm not 100% sure it had seat belts.)
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