"That is why you use sex as an act of self-hatred."-- Vincent D'Onofrio, Anti-thesis
In Cold Blood, now a notorious hallmark, was adapted to the screen in 67 ; Electra Glide appears six years later, and despite the filmography I cannot recall any of Blake's leads other than Baretta, and of the series itself I remember nothing except that the actor had a personable brawn and the interaction with the cockatoo was enterprising, a good fit for the me decade, and after that there was the bizarre murder of trophy girl Bonny Lee Bakley, which I do not think is quite comparable to the OJ Simpson trial.
Did Capote do this country any real favors with his true crime anatomy? Did the industry do Blake any favors in turn? My only evaluation between the drama and the scandal is that Blake's incoherence might serve as a warning that has since gotten lost in the shuffle, spree killing and police containment going to the poor guy's head.
Electra Glide, like much of the new wave films and their imitators, is a bit of a pose, and yet, its malevolent undercurrents remain authentic, worth paying attention to in the long term. The dark side of freedom being simply nothing less to lose is that good men and women who still have vested interests can get wiped out in the cross fire. I am still not sure who killed Frank, whether Blake as the moderate was right, or Bush as the string em up cowboy who smelled the dark side of the hippie dealer, or Ryan as the old guard, humiliated by the disillusion of the liberalism posited in a third rate solo by Riley, but the last scene is effective at annihilating emotional defenses
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