"Michelangelo Antonioni's original ending was a shot of an airplane sky-writing the phrase "Fuck You, America," which was cut by MGM president Louis F. Polk along with numerous other scenes. Louis F. Polk was eventually replaced by James T. Aubrey, who had most of the cut footage restored, but without this final shot."
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Antonioni's firstly theoretical and subsequently literal destruction of the "American" Dream and all possible derivative idealizations through an arthouse perspective that is necessarily foreign, ridiculizes the verbose intellectualism of the struggling student movement and shows the inefficiency of the power authorities in charge of society's "control". Zabriskie Point is most appropriately chosen as a deserted land where life is rarely seen, and the auteur's alienation…