“I started out with simply the fact that this was a futuristic car-racing picture where drivers try to knock each other off the road,” Corman said. But while most races are about speed, in Death Race 2000, it’s the journey and the collateral damage that puts that ornament on the hood. Violent entertainment goes “all the way back to the gladiatorial games and the bread and circus of the Romans,” Corman said. Death Race 2000 was one of the granddaddies to the glut of the dystopian fiction that overwhelm contemporary fiction, but Corman isn’t quick to take the blame.
Slightly more than half of America wants to find the off-ramp. Progressives are now cringing at the thought of what kind of apocalyptic future a Trump presidency will usher, when just a few years ago, millenials of all ages and in all districts welcomed the Tracker Venom of surrender. The world’s media is captivated by the Miss America-contestant-worthy presidential aides, the country is experiencing a perennial rebound and reality TV is so real you just might get run over. The country is ruled by a wacky despot who likes things big and fast. The legendary filmmaker spoke with Den of Geek about the pileup that awaits.ĭeath Race 2000 was a prescient satirical look into a future when satire wasn’t our everyday norm.
Corman and his indomitable American International Pictures called all this back in 1975, before there was even The Gong Show. Yes, it was also being said about his competition, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but she didn’t have a reality TV show and she was ultimately fired. The same was being said about Donald Trump in the run-up to his presidential upset in 2016.
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Millions hate him,” intones the announcer Junior Bruce while introducing Sylvester Stallone’s invulnerable character in Roger Corman’s dystopian cult race movie Death Race 2000.
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