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Targets (1968) is a thriller film written, produced and directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
The story concerns a quiet insurance agent / Vietnam veteran, played by Tim O'Kelly, who murders his young wife, his mother and a grocery delivery boy at home and then initiates an afternoon shooting rampage from atop a Los Angeles area oil refinery. Several motorists and passengers are wounded or killed on the nearby freeway. When the police respond and start to close in on him he flees and resumes his shootings at a Reseda drive-in theater where an aging horror film icon is making a final promotional appearance before retirement.
The character and actions of the killer are patterned after Charles Whitman, the University of Texas sniper. The character of actor Byron Orlok, named after Max Schreck's vampire Count Orlok in 1922's Nosferatu, is patterned after Boris Karloff himself, who in fact plays the part in his last appearance in a major American film (although Bogdanovich states that, unlike Orlok, Karloff was not embittered with the movie business and did not wish to retire).
[M: Q, ROTTEN SOUND]
[L: G]
Targets!
Dying inside
Drying with mindless cry
Finding a brand new? life?
By rejecting the urge to fly
Flying by own free will
Going with the internal wind
Facing some problems:
The unseen cracks, the visible gloom
Numb creative mind
Dull social life
No achievements
No plan to meet the targets
Targets!
How to find a new key
When the previous have gone bad?
I? m locked from inside
Externally lost, internally chaos
Flying by own free will
Going with the internal wind
Facing some problems:
The unseen cracks, the visible gloom
Numb creative mind
Dull social life
No achievements
No plan to meet the targets