{"id":140,"date":"2006-04-04T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T20:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=140"},"modified":"2023-11-30T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:52:23","slug":"joe-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Joe (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Forty-two percent of all liberals are queer; that&#8217;s a fact.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Poster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Poster-1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Poster-1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Poster-1-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Poster-1.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nBusinessman Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick) kills his daughter&#8217;s drug-dealing boyfriend in a fit of rage, and befriends a working-class bigot (Peter Boyle) who admires what he&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Class Relations<\/li>\n<li>Counterculture<\/li>\n<li>Generation Gap<\/li>\n<li>Peter Boyle Films<\/li>\n<li>Susan Sarandon Films<\/li>\n<li>Vigilantes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nPeary&#8217;s not a big fan of this scathing cross-generational commentary, arguing that the film supports the &#8220;contention of [the] era&#8217;s conservatives that all hippie girls were nymphomaniacs, that all long-haired young people took drugs and were untrustworthy, [and] that all members of the counterculture were vermin.&#8221; What he neglects to mention, however, is that <em>all <\/em>the characters in this over-the-top film are contemptible or pathetic in one way or another. As in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=75\"><em>Shoot<\/em> (1976)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=85\"><em>The Exterminator <\/em>(1980)<\/a>, Peter Boyle&#8217;s Joe &#8212; a &#8220;loudmouth working-class stiff who has contempt for blacks, liberals, and hippies&#8221; &#8212; is portrayed as a gun-savvy veteran who&#8217;s itching to wreak damage on the &#8220;Others&#8221; in his community, just like he did back in Vietnam. After his chance encounter with Bill in a bar, Joe becomes a &#8220;Mephistopheles&#8221;-like figure, nurturing Bill&#8217;s &#8220;baser instincts&#8221; and encouraging their unlikely cross-class friendship. This eventually leads to the film&#8217;s tragic and violent  denouement, which Peary refers to as &#8220;preposterous&#8221; and &#8220;hard-to-watch&#8221;, but which I see as a logical outcome of the tension that has been building since the very beginning of the film. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Boyle as Joe<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Boyle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Boyle-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Boyle-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Boyle-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Boyle-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Boyle-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Boyle-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Boyle.png 1699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Susan Sarandon in her first screen role (she already radiates a special kind of charm and beauty)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Sarandon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Sarandon-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Sarandon-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Sarandon-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Sarandon-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Sarandon-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Sarandon-1536x853.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Joe-Sarandon.png 1705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A powerful, if occasionally cliched, look at clashes between class, age, and culture in the 1960s <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s recommended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0065916\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forty-two percent of all liberals are queer; that&#8217;s a fact.&#8221; Synopsis: Businessman Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick) kills his daughter&#8217;s drug-dealing boyfriend in a fit of rage, and befriends a working-class bigot (Peter Boyle) who admires what he&#8217;s done. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Class Relations Counterculture Generation Gap Peter Boyle Films Susan Sarandon Films Vigilantes Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary&#8217;s not a big fan of this scathing cross-generational commentary, arguing that the film supports the &#8220;contention of [the] era&#8217;s conservatives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=140\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93584,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/93584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}