{"id":37876,"date":"2014-11-21T13:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=37876"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:49:52","slug":"ford-blue-collar-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/culture\/ford-blue-collar-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Collar &#8211; Filmed in Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For our money Blue Collar is one of the greatest films about the realities of the car manufacturing industry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gritty 1978 movie, starring a straight-talking Richard Pryor and a brawny Harvey Keitel, was shot in the Ford River Rouge works in Detroit and is from a time before the robots took over, when men still made cars out of sweat and sparks.<\/p>\n<p>It examines the life of car workers and union malpractice in the American \u2018rust belt\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2eTQIMjoStE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The incredible theme song was performed by Captain Beefheart<\/a> who had been cajoled out of his desert exile for the gig. 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