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Gas, fu necessario distruggere il mondo per poterlo salvare

Titolo originale: Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
  • 1970
  • R
  • 1h 18min
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Gas, fu necessario distruggere il mondo per poterlo salvare (1970)
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
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    • Roger Corman
  • Sceneggiatura
    • George Armitage
  • Star
    • Bob Corff
    • Elaine Giftos
    • Bud Cort
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    4,2/10
    1771
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Roger Corman
    • Sceneggiatura
      • George Armitage
    • Star
      • Bob Corff
      • Elaine Giftos
      • Bud Cort
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    Bob Corff
    Bob Corff
    • Coel
    • (as Robert Corff)
    Elaine Giftos
    Elaine Giftos
    • Cilla
    Bud Cort
    Bud Cort
    • Hooper
    Talia Shire
    Talia Shire
    • Coralee
    • (as Tally Coppola)
    Ben Vereen
    Ben Vereen
    • Carlos
    Cindy Williams
    Cindy Williams
    • Marissa
    Alex Wilson
    • Jason
    Lou Procopio
    • Marshal McLuhan
    Phil Borneo
    • Quant
    Alan H. Braunstein
    • Dr. Drake
    • (as Alan Braunstein)
    Jackie Farley
    • Ginny
    David Osterhout
    • Texas Ranger
    Juretta Taylor
    • Zoe
    Michael D. Castle
    • Burroughs
    • (as Mike Castle)
    Alan DeWitt
    • Dr. Murder
    Bruce Karcher
    • Edgar Allen
    Stephen White
    • Sergeant Sentry Collar
    Raye Birk
    Raye Birk
    • Mort Catafalque
    • (as Ray Birk)
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      • Roger Corman
    • Sceneggiatura
      • George Armitage
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    4ianbrown65

    Not much of a gas, in the end

    Impossible to say how Roger Corman's attempt at a loose kaleidoscopic comedy-satire in the Richard Lester vein would have turned out had not American International Pictures re-edited it against his wishes. He left the studio after 15 years with them after this.

    The script is decidedly weak, a common Corman failing, full of potentially intriguing, half-formed ideas that are never realised. Meanwhile the cast of unknowns never get any real chance to build up their characters into anything sympathetic or likable. It's as if the director isn't really interested in them.

    It's an adequately stylish, and zippy enough production. But like much of Corman's later stuff for AIP, it also has an air of opportunism about it, riding the post-Easy Rider youth-counterculture boom while having only an outsider's empathy with it (Corman was 44 when he made this).

    Still, if nothing else he does get a chance to say an ironic farewell to Edgar Allan Poe (the author of Corman's earlier celebrated cult film series), who here appears in period dress riding a Harley Davidson with a stuffed raven on his shoulder!
    Sargebri

    Corman's Last Hurrah

    This was a weird sort of science fiction comedy from "Professor Corman". This film pretty much reminds me of a spaced out version of the short lived show "The New People", which came out a year earlier. The whole idea of everyone over 35 being killed by a gas that didn't work on the younger population was a wild idea to begin with, but the surrealism of this movie even made it wilder to look at. Too bad that Corman's last film for A.I.P. couldn't have been a schlock classic like many of his earlier. At least on the bright side we get to look at a very young Cindy Williams, Talia Shire and Ben Vereen in what was one of, if not their first roles in a motion picture.
    Infofreak

    Nutty psychedelic sci-fi comedy.

    The late 60s/early 70s saw a handful of genuinely odd pseudo counter-culture movies released by American studios, including cult classics like 'The Trip', 'Greetings', 'Psych-Out', 'Cult Of The Damned', 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls', and 'Zachariah'. Whether they were "genuine" of just plain exploitation is open to debate, and also a moot point all these years later. Fake or not they are a lot of fun now for 60s buffs. You can add Roger Corman's 'Gas-s-s-s' to that list. The movies premise is that a gas has been accidently released that kills everyone over the age of twenty-five. A hippie on the run from the police (Robert Corff) teams up with a scientist (Elaine Giftos), and the two go on a road trip to New Mexico, trying to find a rumoured hippie Utopia. Along the way they hook up with two couples - revolutionary Ben Vereen ('Roots') and his pregnant rock'n'roll fanatic girlfriend Cindy Williams ('Laverne And Shirley'), and their weirdo pals Bud Cort ('Harold And Maude') and Talia Shire ('Rocky'). The six companions come across many strange situations on their journey, including a militant dune buggy riding football team, Country Joe and The Fish on a golf course, and Edgar Allen Poe, Lenore and The Raven riding a motorbike. Yup, it's one of those kind of movies! Silly, self indulgent, with a lot of half baked (pun intended) jokes that aren't entirely successful. Even so quite a trip if you are in the right frame of mind. Nowhere near as good as Corman's 'Bloody Mama' (released in the same year), but it's probably his most overlooked movie, from a long, varied and consistently underrated career. One day he will receive the recognition he deserves, both as a producer/director, and for getting many important actors and film makers their first breaks.
    3dbrookfield

    Bizarre

    I think if you are into the sixties kind of thing, as I am, you are obligated to waste about 80 minutes of your life watching this barely watchable trainwreck. The saving graces of this oddity include a surprisingly apt social commentary on sixties values along with a number of relatively well known actors caught in early (and embarrassing) footage. It's as if the producers of Laugh-In sat down and decided to write a full length film, covering all the high points (and more) of the issues between the flower children and the establishment, then put it in the hands of a couple of hippies and gave them about a $10,000 budget to complete it. Hardly a classic, but in its own way it does capture how truly strange that time was, the silliness, the over-idealism, and the uptightness of the establishment. Clearly not for everyone.
    silentgpaleo

    A Roger Corman 60's freakout, recut by its studio

    In Roger Corman's autobiography, he says that this film, GASsss, was a deciding factor in his leaving the employ of AIP. The film, as it stands, is a valiant effort at a counterculture comedy, and although the jokes are mostly dated today, the film is an interesting bit of drive-in history.

    We open in 1968, which was the current year when this was made. A hippie is running from cops, and hides in a church.The hippie dresses as a priest,and dodges the cops. While sitting in the confessional,he meets a young female scientist on the run. She can tell he's not a real priest, because he uses the F word.

    The hippie learns what the scientist is running from. She had left an experiment station where a chemical gas was escaping. The gas supposedly kills everyone over 28 years old, so, in essence, the older generations would be wiped out.

    This leaves the world in shambles. The hippie and his now-girlfriend scientist make a trip south, to try to locate a commune/pueblo that is setting up to shelter those who have survived.

    I don't want to give much else away, except that there are several characters the two meet on their journey south. Ben Vereen and Cindy Williams(pregnant) play a hip couple, and some football players show up. There's also bikers on golfcarts (hippie: "Who are you?" , biker:"Don't get metaphysical.")and assorted failed gags, and some funny ones. I especially liked the more obnoxious characters.

    But my girlfriend hated the whole film. She disliked all the whole free-love jive, and she just didn't get the jokes. I got the jokes, even the bad ones. But I enjoyed it, and she didn't. I tried to argue that Corman was talented.

    In fact, until Corman set up shop with New Horizons some twenty years ago, he was consistent in making films that were not always good, but usually fairly intelligent and provocative. When Corman was hot, from the mid-50's to the late 60's, he was good.

    GASsss is the tail-end of that streak.He directed one more film after this, the dull VonReichtoven and Brown, and retired to be a producer. The only other flicks I've seen him do(Frankenstein Unbound and The Phantom Eye) have been unworthy ventures.

    So, my point is that GASsss was Corman's last film as director that really succeeded to entertain. Yes, the cuts that AIP imposed on some of the chancier jokes do hurt the film.(who knows how funny it would've been to hear God narrate the story with a Jewish accent? Or how breathtaking the final shot would have been, a tracking shot that Corman says was the best shot in his career, left on the cutting room floor). Then again, I'm not sure if the film would've made much more sense than it does now.

    Yes, GASsss is a failure, but an interesting one. If you're feeling patient one night for a 60's time capsule, and you like Country Joe and the Fish, this the film for you.

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      The film's subtitle comes from an alleged statement of a U.S. Army Major (name unknown) during the Vietnam War who was said to have defended the complete and total destruction of both a Vietnamese town and everyone and everything in it at the hands of Army soldiers who were acting on his orders by supposedly saying "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
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      After breaking through a roadblock, the main character's car has three out of its four front headlights broken as a result. Later, all four of them are suddenly intact when it does not seem probable that the three broken ones could have been repaired that quickly.
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      Dr. Murder: Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of any organization which advocates the violent overthrow of the government of the United States of America?

      Marissa: Yes.

      Dr. Murder: Which one?

      Marissa: The Paul Revere and the Raiders Fan Club.

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