By: Kiara Walker
Duel is a 1972 Thriller movie directed by Steven Spielberg and This movie is about a man driving down a deserted Southern California highway at a safe and sane
55 miles per hour, The man , David Mann, steps on the pedal to pass
a large gas trailer truck because the truck is going slower than the speed limit. Moments later, the truck is back,
dangerously tailgating Mann before abruptly cutting him off. Mann tries several times to get away from the truck but somehow he cant, the truck driver is always manages to find him. For the
next 90 minutes, Mann and the never-seen truck driver are pitted against
one another in a motorized duel to the death.
At the end of the movie, David Mann , comes up with plan to trick the driver into falling off a cliff, the plan works but it is unclear if the truck driver died or not because it does not show. David is relieved that everything is over and he sits down by the cliff gazing into the sunset.
The script is adapted by Richard Matheson from his own short story, originally published in Playboy magazine. It was inspired by a real-life experience in which Matheson
was tailgated by a trucker while on his way home from a golfing match
with friend Jerry Sohl on November 22, 1963, the same day as the John F. Kennedy assassination. The short story was given to Spielberg by his secretary, who reportedly read the magazine for the stories.
I would rate this movie a B , It wasn't all that bad. It had some interesting scenes and pretty exciting to watch.
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