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The Cars That Ate Paris
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The Cars That Ate Paris (also known as The Cars That Eat People) is a 1974 Australian New Wave film that marked the directorial debut of Peter Weir.The Paris of the title is a tiny town in the New South Wales countryside (so not that Paris). It's surrounded by treacherous roads that are prone to car accidents. The Waldo brothers become a victim of one of these accidents. George dies, but Arthur (Terry Camilleri) survives. After recovering in the local hospital, he's persuaded to stay in town by Mayor Kelly (John Meillon). But it becomes apparent that beneath the placid exterior of Paris lies a harsh truth: the car accidents are caused intentionally by the town's residents, and they make their livings by scavenging the parts. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The scheme that the town of Paris runs on is very ghastly and morbid, but the film is more breezy and colorful than dark. | |
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Raised by Natives | |
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Raised by Natives: The Mayor's two daughters are actually orphans whose parents were killed in a car accident. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Yes, the townspeople cause crashes, steal, kill and lobotomize people. But, the Mayor is visibly disturbed and angry when he finds that one of the townspeople had literally blown off the head of the visiting Pastor. While there's some Pragmatic Evil involved, as shooting a regular visitor in broad daylight is harder to explain than a stranger at night, the Mayor still calls the perpetrator "irreligious". | |
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Mad Scientist: Frontier Doctor Midland enjoys experimenting on lobotomised patients. | |
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The Patriarch | |
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The Patriarch: The Mayor has a wife and two children, and adopts Arthur as his son. | |
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Lobotomy | |
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Lobotomy: The village doctor's "cure" for motorists who survive the car crash. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: The Mayor is a pleasant, fatherly man, who just happens to endorse murder and thievery on the part of his subjects. | |
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The Joy of X | |
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The Joy of X: The title is a variant of The Noun Who Verbed. | |
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Repressive, but Efficient | |
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Repressive, but Efficient: The Mayor's authoritarian regime in Paris. | |
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Traffic Wardens | |
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Traffic Wardens: Arthur is given this unpopular job by the Mayor. | |
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Gaslighting | |
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Gaslighting: When Arthur keeps mentioning that he saw lights before the crash, the Mayor assures him that it's just a delusion caused by the physical and mental stress of the accident. In fact, using lights to blind victims is one of the Parisians' main methods to cause accidents, so the Mayor is trying to avoid a He Knows Too Much situation with Arthur. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: The Mayor's red 1958 Desoto Firesweep, the customised Holden FJ, and the VW Beetle covered in a forest of metal spikes. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: By the end of the film, no one is held legally accountable for their crimes. However, it's averted in that the conflict between the local greasers and the older generation has led to several village buildings demolished and people killed. This in turn leads the villagers to abandon their homes. However, Fridge Logic sets in when you consider that when Arthur finally talks to the authorities (who were lead to believe he was dead and his car destroyed) there may be an investigation. | |
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DesertPunk | |
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Desert Punk: Some of the young hoons have chains and spikes on their leather jackets. | |
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EvilVsEvil | |
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Evil vs. Evil: The town elders and the young Greaser Delinquents. | |
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Town with a Dark Secret | |
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Town with a Dark Secret: Not only do the Paris locals cause the accidents and plunder the remains, it appears to be their only means of sustenance. Their clothes and personal items have been scavenged from their victims, and it's even established that the town basically uses a barter economy based around trading plundered goods for services. | |
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Attack of the Killer Whatever | |
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Attack of the Killer Whatever: The monstrous customised cars turn the local greasers into sociopathic murderers. | |
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Land Downunder | |
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Land Down Under: A foreshadowing of the Savage South trope now associated with Mad Max. | |
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Mooks | |
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Mooks: The Mayor's henchmen all wear orange hi-visibility jackets. | |
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Creepy Cemetery | |
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Creepy Cemetery: The Paris cemetery is full of white crosses marking the burial spots of car accident victims. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The song played on the piano at the Mayor's party is "My Ding-A-Ling" by Chuck Berry. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Credits | |
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Bait-and-Switch Credits: The opening scene parodies a cigarette commercial, but the couple in the sports car are soon run off the road and killed. | |
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"London, England" Syndrome | |
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"London, England" Syndrome: Averted. This Paris is in the Australian Outback. There's even a local eatery called the Eiffel Tower Cafe. | |
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Salvage Pirates | |
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Salvage Pirates: The townsfolk make a living by causing car accidents and then scavenging the parts from the wrecks. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the local greasers' rampage, the villagers pack up what they can carry and leave. | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
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Awful Wedded Life: The Mayor and his wife don't appear to have a great marriage. He's very controlling, and it turns out she's infertile. | |
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The Igor | |
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The Igor: The day job of one of the punks. | |
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TheSeventies | |
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The '70s: Although the town appears Two Decades Behind due to its remoteness. | |
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The Alleged Car | |
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The Alleged Car: The hoons' cars have components from many different models. | |
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Never Trust a Title | |
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Never Trust a Title: The title might imply that it's a campy Attack of the Killer Whatever movie about Sentient Vehicles, but it's really a Black Comedy about a remote town, and the "ate" part is more about the conscience of the townspeople than anything else. | |
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