Looking back at 'Smokey and the Bandit' 45 years later, Bandit wasn't the rebel he thought he was.
The late 70s and early 80s saw a wave of car chasing, barroom brawling, crowd-pleasers that ruled the box office, and Smokey and the Bandit led the pack. Its title cannily referenced the CB radio craze and it gave Burt Reynolds his biggest hit. The wise-cracking, law-breaking hero, Bo “Bandit” Darville, would become his calling card from that point on… for better and for worse. At the time, Bandit looked like an agent of chaos.
Throughout Smokey and the Bandit, Reynold’s character is framed as an anti-establishment figure via the iconography of the time. At the end of the 60s, Easy Rider had established the look of a modern-day seeker/outsider: he lived on his motorbike and in the open spaces of America, wore a combination of hippy shirts and ironic headgear , and obeyed no authority. Bandit is also a wanderer who exists in his car, wears loose shirts and a cowboy hat, and is no follower of rules.
The characters who surround Bandit also function to disguise the cracks in his rebel credentials. Smokey isn’t just an authority figure, he’s a permanently frustrated pressure cooker, liable to boil over with rage at any moment. His son is in a state of arrested development, a grown man who still uses the word “daddy” and needs help with his zipper. Cledus is a redneck whose most loving relationships are his big rig and bloodhound.
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