{"id":39,"date":"2006-03-07T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T03:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-02-05T01:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T08:17:05","slug":"heavy-traffic-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Traffic (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m gittin&#8217; wid&#8217; it, Carole! A really zooty, cash &#8216;n booty, funky and booty razzmattazz!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Poster-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Poster-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Poster-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Poster-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Poster.jpg 1828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA horny Jewish-Italian cartoonist (Joseph Kaufmann) has a series of adventures with lowlifes in New York, and tries to get laid by a busty black woman.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animated Features<\/li>\n<li>New York City<\/li>\n<li>Sexuality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;semi-autobiographical&#8221;, &#8220;X-rated animation feature by Ralph Bakshi&#8221; possesses some &#8220;well-drawn&#8221; characters, impressive backgrounds, bizarre humor, and a creative mix of live action and &#8220;superb&#8221; animation. With that said, your enjoyment of the movie will ultimately hinge upon your tolerance for its litany of hyper-sexual &#8220;grotesque characters&#8221;. While Peary argues that this flick &#8220;is much more palatable than <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=38323\"><em>Fritz the Cat<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; I actually believe the latter should be considered must-see for its historical relevance, while this one can be skipped. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some truly far-out animation<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Animation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Animation-1024x629.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Animation-1024x629.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Animation-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Animation-128x79.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Animation-768x472.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Animation-1536x944.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Heavy-Traffic-Animation.png 1557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo. While Bakshi&#8217;s films are worth a one-time watch for their unique place in animation history, <em>Fritz the Cat<\/em> (1972)<\/a> is a better candidate as &#8220;must see&#8221; given its status as the first ever X-rated animated film. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0070165\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1973\/08\/09\/archives\/film-animated-heavy-traffic-opens-new-york-is-subject-of-bakshi.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gittin&#8217; wid&#8217; it, Carole! A really zooty, cash &#8216;n booty, funky and booty razzmattazz!&#8221; Synopsis: A horny Jewish-Italian cartoonist (Joseph Kaufmann) has a series of adventures with lowlifes in New York, and tries to get laid by a busty black woman. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Animated Features New York City Sexuality Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this &#8220;semi-autobiographical&#8221;, &#8220;X-rated animation feature by Ralph Bakshi&#8221; possesses some &#8220;well-drawn&#8221; characters, impressive backgrounds, bizarre humor, and a creative mix&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39\"> 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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","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\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68873,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/68873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}