Talk:Blue Collar (film)

financial information
With big stars and the Taxi Driver connection, this film must have had a substantial budget and promotion. It would be interesting to see how it did at the box office, but none of this financial information is available at imdb. Is there another source? 0-0-0-Destruct-0 20:03, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

not a dramedy
I just watched this film for the second time, and the article's original characterization of it as a dramedy doesn't work. There are a couple of minor comic elements in the film, but it is 99.99% drama with so much violent and disturbing stuff that it couldn't even be edited into a dramedy without changing the film entirely. In fact, the one overt gag in the film--their Halloween disguises when they're busted in the middle of the robbery--just comes off as a sore thumb in a movie that goes completely in another direction. The frequent quotes of the sitcom Good Times doesn't play as humor so much as the realism effect of the background in a working class home in the 70's. These observations are all critical analysis, so I just changed "dramedy" in the article to "drama (with minimal comic elements)." 0-0-0-Destruct-0 20:11, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the movie's portrayal of autoworkers
I was surprised by "Blue Collar's portrayal of autoworkers as exploited and low-paid, because my understanding (based on various books that I've read) is that autoworkers by that time were not only well-paid, but were amongst the best paid blue-collar workers in America. I'm not sure what the thoughts of other people are on this, but the source below supports that assumption:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PMYE_Flwg1wC&pg=PA108&dq=united+states+auto+workers+wages+high&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MO1cVaWmPOes7AafioOYCw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=united%20states%20auto%20workers%20wages%20high&f=false

User:zictor23 11:50pm, 23 May 2015 (UTC)