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â€Å"Do you wanna know what happens to an eyeball when it gets punctured?† This is one question the villainous hitchhiker, asks the quivering hero in director Robert Harmon’s disturbing film The Hitcher (1986). Harmon’s film follows Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell), a young man delivering a car to a client in San Diego, only to find himself being terrorized by the murderous hitchhiker John Ryder (Rutger Hauer). The Hitcher is most commonly thought of as a horror movie, but the film covers many of the conventions of both the road movie and a subgenre known as the highway horror film. By examining these conventions, the film’s historical context, and concepts including the outlaw couple, we should be able to discover how this cult classic fits in†¦show more content†¦Even when Ryder is apprehended, the authorities aren’t able to find any past records on him or find out his true identity (even Rutger Hauer has made the claim that John Ryder is a fake name the character uses). Motivation is also drastically different between Ryder and Emmett Myers, as Emmet simply wants to escape capture from the authorities. Ryder’s intentions on the other hand, are more mysterious, as he simply explains to Jim that â€Å"I want you to stop me†. John Kenneth Muir explains this motivation as him â€Å"encouraging Jim to play back, to be his partner†, which ultimately plays into the road movie concept of the outlaw couple. The outlaw couple is apart of Laderman’s â€Å"two narrative pretexts: the quest road movie†¦ and the outlaw road movie† (20). Ryder is playing with Jim throughout the movie, everywhere Jim goes Ryder and his murderous streak seems to follow. Jim’s first encounter with Ryder ended with him pushing the madman out of his car, but the nightmare continues when he passes by a family on the road and sees Ryder sitting in the back seat playfully waving to him. A few miles down the ro ad Jim finds the family s car and the audience is left to believe that Ryder murdered the family, as Jim takes one look in the window and pukes. Jim can’t seem to escape his elusive â€Å"partner† which ultimately has the police arresting him for Ryder’s crimes. ItShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of Do The Right Thing By Spike Lee991 Words   |  4 PagesIt’s no secret that Spike Lee is defiant of mainstream Hollywood expectations and is no stranger to controversy. In a review written by James Berardinelli, he writes, â€Å"The movie confronts racism head-on, with the kind of clear-eyed and unflinching attitude that is rarely seen in major motion pictures. Lee does not pander to political correctness, nor does he sermonize† (Berardinelli, Do the Right Thing). 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