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  • Short but sweet and cool memories from the making of "Five Easy Pieces" as told by its producer/writer/director Bob Rafelson with a very brief appearance from leading man Jack Nicholson. There isn't much to be said since everything that needed to be addressed about its classic film from the New Hollywood are told by both men, from stories about the creation and concept developed by Rafelson and her screenwriting partner Carol Eastman and the enormous contributions she provided to Rafelson's original idea in a moment where he didn't know exactly what he was doing with the story and she was the one to put things right back on track; and the iconic diner scene with Nicholson throwing stuff away from the table to scare the ratty waitress coming from a real-life event that happened with Nicholson himself and Bob felt it was something that should be included in the final picture. They don't focus much on explaining the rationale or the emotions from the characters, those are all destined to us, we must make such reflections while watching the movie. The documentary opens with a curious and funny on-set situation of Rafelson crew being bothered by the presence of a moth flying around ruining the shot, to which Rafelson was a gentleman in quiet things down after catching the moth. A quite interesting short documentary that doesn't need much to presents its facts. 8/10.