Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic is a 1973 American adult animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film, which begins, ends, and occasionally combines with live-action, explores the often surreal fantasies of a young New York cartoonist named Michael Corleone, using pinball imagery as a metaphor for inner-city life. Heavy Traffic was Bakshi and producer Steve Krantz's follow-up to the successful and coolly controversial film Fritz the Cat, the first animated feature to receive an X rating. Though producer Krantz made varied attempts to produce an R-rated film, Heavy Traffic was given an X rating by the MPAA. The film received positive reviews and is widely considered to be Bakshi's biggest critical success.

Plot

The film starts out in live action, introducing the protagonist Michael Corleone, a 22-year-old virgin (inaccurately referred to as 24 in the movie's trailer) playing pinball in New York City. The scene then transitions into animation. New York has a diseased, rotten, tough, and violent atmosphere. Michael's Italian father, Angelo "Angie" Corleone, is a struggling mafioso who frequently cheats on Michael's Jewish mother, Ida. The couple constantly bicker and try to kill each other. Michael ambles through a catalog of freaks, greasers, and dopers. Unemployed, he dabbles with cartoons, artistically feeding off the grubbiness of his environment. He regularly hangs out at a local bar where he gets free drinks from the female black bartender, Carole, in exchange for sketches of the somewhat annoying Shorty, Carole's violent, legless bouncer devotee. One of the regular customers at the bar named Snowflake, a nymphomaniac transvestite, gets beaten up by a tough drunk who has only just realized that Snowflake is a man in drag and not a beautiful woman. Shorty throws the drunk out and the bar's white manager abusively confronts Carole over this. Fed up with her manager, Carole quits.

Heavy Traffic (album)

Heavy Traffic is the twenty-fifth studio album by English rock band Status Quo. Published in 2002, it hit #15 on the UK charts. The album was released following the reunion of Francis Rossi with writing partner Bob Young, who co-wrote many of the band's songs between 1968 and 1981. This is the first album to feature drummer Matt Letley.

UK track listing

  • Blues and Rhythm (Rossi/Bown) 4:29
  • All Stand Up (Never Say Never) (Rossi/Young) 4:08
  • The Oriental (Rossi/Edwards) 4:29
  • Creepin' Up On You (Parfitt/Edwards) 5:01
  • Heavy Traffic (Rossi/Young/Edwards) 4:23
  • Solid Gold (Rossi/Young) 4:14
  • Green (Bown) 3:35
  • Jam Side Down (Britten/Dore) 3:27
  • Diggin' Burt Bacharach (Rossi/Young) 2:32
  • Do It Again (Edwards/Bown) 3:40
  • Another Day (Rossi/Young) 3:47
  • I Don't Remember Anymore (Bown) 3:38
  • Money Don't Matter (Rossi/Young) 3:52
  • Rhythm of Life (Rossi/Young) 5:05
  • European Track listing

  • Blues and Rhythm (Rossi/Bown) 4:29
  • All Stand Up (Never Say Never) (Rossi/Young) 4:08
  • The Oriental (Rossi/Edwards) 4:29
  • Heavy Traffic (soundtrack)

    Heavy Traffic OST is the soundtrack to Ralph Bakshi's 1973 film Heavy Traffic. The film's score was performed by Ed Bogas and Ray Shanklin. The soundtrack album was released on Fantasy Records in 1973. The album was released on compact disc in 1996 as part of a compilation that featured both the soundtracks to Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic on the same disc.

    Track listing

  • Scarborough Fair (P.D., arr. Simon & Garfunkel)
  • Performed by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66
  • Scarborough Street Fair (P.D., arr. Bogas)
  • Twist and Shout (Russell-Medley)
  • Performed by The Isley Brothers
  • Angie's Theme (Bogas)
  • Take Five (Desmond)
  • Performed by the Dave Brubeck quartet
  • Carole's Theme (Shanklin)
  • Heavy Traffic (Shanklin)
  • What You Sow (Bogas)
  • Maybellene (Berry)
  • Performed by Chuck Berry
  • Michael's Scarborough Fair (P.D., arr. Bogas)
  • Ballroom Beauties (Bogas)
  • Podcasts:

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    Heavy Traffic

    by: Michael Cretu

    Heavy traffic, highway song
    Steely bodies on parade
    Heavy traffic, roll along
    High performance cavalcade
    Heavy traffic, rubber burning
    All together, stop and go
    Heavy traffic, miss a turning
    Interrupt the traffic flow
    If I ever get to heaven
    I'll be sure to go by train
    If I make it home by seven
    I'll never drive again
    Heavy traffic, stormy weather
    Monday morning on the road
    Heavy traffic, wait forever
    Following an overload
    Heavy traffic, never-ending
    Spitting poison in the air
    Metal river, who's pretending
    You won't ever get me there
    If I ever get to heaven
    I'll be sure to go by train
    If I make it home by seven




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