Fritz the Cat (1972)
Director:
Ralph Bakshi
Tagline:
« The CAT that got the CREAM! »
Actors:
Fritz the Cat
Bertha
Blue
Winston Schwartz
Pig Cop #2
Rating:
(16’257 votes)
(16’257 votes)
Quotes:
« Winston#1: Why does a great actor like James Earl Jones always have to play black men?
»
« Fritz: Hey, hey, hey, Look at this big fucking gun!
»
[shoots the toilet]
« Fritz: I killed the john! I killed the john!
»
[Arriving back at his dorm room, where his roomates ignore him]
« Fritz: Hello men… everybody all busy studyin' for their goddamn exams and all? Hey Fuz, how'd it go with that Dee Dee chick, huh? She's got some bod' you have to admit… ol' Charlene isn't bad either… like, wow! Heinz, you swine, ol' buddy pig, ya groove behind Alvina and get some kicks tonight, huh?
»
[Scene fades into black]
« Fritz: Bastards… you'd think the goddamn exams was the be-all end-all of existence… the cosmic life-force or somethin'. Can't even say a few decent words to a guy… th' bastards… What a bore… take some bennies an' stay up all night with your face stuck in a bunch of books an' your thumbs up your ass… Yes… yes… I remember the time when it was all very inspiring and enlightening… all this history and literature and sociology shit… You think learning is a really big thing an' you become this big fuckin' intellectual and sit around tryin' ta out-intellectual all the other big fuckin' intellectuals… you spend years and years with your nose buried in these goddamn tomes while out there the world is passin' you by… and all the stuff to see and all th' kicks an' girls are all out there… an' ME, a writer ad a poet who should be havin' adventures an' experiencing all the diversities and paradoxes and ironies of life and passin' over all the roads of the world and digging all the cities and towns and rives and oceans… and making all them chicks!
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[Imagines naked woman]
« Fritz: As a writer and poet it is my duty to get out there and dig the world… to swing with the whole friggin' scene while there's still time!
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[Grabs papers]
« Fritz: My farting around days are over! From this day on I shall live every day as if it were my last! Yes! Yes! I must do it! No more the dreary boring classes, the dismal lectures, the sitting around bullshitting with pretentious fat-assed hippies, no more the books, the spoutings of a bunch of old farts who think they know the whole goddamn score!
»
[Breathes fire]
« Fritz: Oh God! What have I done? I've set all my notes and books and stuff on fire and now I can't study for my exams… I'll flunk out and my folks'll be pissed off as hell… I'll get a blanket… the blanket's on fire. We'd better call the fire department.
»
[We see the roof of Fritz's dorm on fire]
Runtime:78 minutes
Plots:
In the late 1960s, a pretentious, womanizing young cat drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem, hits the road with an ex-girlfriend and gets mixed up with domestic terrorists.
In the 1960s, fed up with monotonous college life and police repression, free-spirited Fritz, an impenitent seducer and unrestrained party-animal, decides to explore the world. And just like that, as he flees New York City, heading to San Francisco, Fritz embarks on an endless adventure of illumination. Immersed in a world surrounded by drugs and sex, Fritz takes part in mad orgies, brings about a revolution, incites mass urban riots, and crosses paths with drug-addled Nazi bikers. Will Fritz ever find what he’s looking for?
A persiflage on the protest movements of the 1960s. Its hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university, Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther, and Hell’s Angels scenes to find himself.
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