Movie Weekend (part 2)

Watched this weekend:

Putney Swope (1969, dir. Robert Downey Sr.)
Kagemusha (1980, dir. Akira Kurasawa)
Two Lane Blacktop (1971, dir. Monte Hellman)
The Loved One (1965, Tony Richardson)

I also watched that Hunter S. Thompson documentary, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride. I don't know if it has ever been confirmed or even talked about, but I think HST was inspired the by The Loved One to have his ashes launched in that elaborate rocket cannon at his funeral (which he had planned since the 70s). I first read about The Loved One (the movie with Jonathan Winters) when HST quoted Winters' greedy, corrupt land developer/minister, who needed to clear out the corpses buried in a plush cemetery in order to swing a real estate deal. The scheme was to launch the bodies into orbit, "the graceful peace of space". I think Thompson really admired the movie (which was co-written by the legendary Terry Southern) and Winters,
who he called a "bull-goose looney".