April 27, 2007

Bob Rafelson, Head (1968). 85 minutes.

The Monkees made this flick after their series got canned in an attempt to refashion/resurrect their image (the word plastic gets thrown around repeatedly). Acidy-trippy hi-jinks follow (co-writ by Jack Nicholson).

Notes:

anti-war
anti-product placement
anti-marketing created image
anti-Hollywood fakisms
anti-commercialism (blew that vending machine up good, twice)
awareness of career suicide as they all jumped from a bridge in the end

That is, biting the hand that fed them all the way.

Pop art with an agenda.