Talk:Sorcerer (film)

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[edit] Spoofs

Just a quick note to clear up any confusion for the few that will have seen all three of the works mentioned, the Simpson's episode mentioned does spoof the Tangerine Dream music (which is why it is worth leaving in the article) but the visuals for the bridge sequence are actually spoofing The Wages of Fear.User:MarnetteD | Talk 14:53, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• I haven't seen the Simpsons episode for a while. But doesn't it show the snowplow tilting to one side as shown on the DVD cover in this article? Thought it did. Ribonucleic 03:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

The Mr Plow scene looks just like the sagging bridge from Sorcerer to me. Format 08:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorcerer is a re-make of The Wages of Fear anyway. Badgerpatrol 11:26, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Title

Does anyone know why this film was titled "Sorcerer"? For the life I've me I can't get any info on that, even after reading some film encyclopedias and the book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Anyone? Willerror 13:36, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I recall reading some interview in which Friedkin said that the "sorcerer" the title referred to was fate; in a sort of allegorical sense, I guess. --85.210.33.72 18:08, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Aside from any allegorical meanings (and I suspect there must be one, though I do not know what), "Sorcerer" is the name painted on the side of one of the trucks driven by the protagonists. Format 00:10, 17 May 2007 (UTC)