Apex Mountain
Beatty is debated and ultimately supported; Julie Christie and party scenes receive separate consideration.
In the discussion (5)
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- Beatty receives a tentative yes because the film’s ownership, success, and creative control gave him extraordinary leverage.
- Heaven Can Wait is raised as a competing later peak.
- Julie Christie is rejected because her two major films in the same earlier year made that the clearer peak.
- Robert Towne’s Chinatown and Shampoo run is considered.
- Triumph motorcycles receive a yes, while party scenes lose to Almost Famous.