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Plot summary
In a California desert, a group of people take seats in the open air to watch a film. An accountant hands out binoculars and pedals away without answering their questions about what they are about to see. Chad tells them that things in movies happen for no reason, and that the movie they are waiting for is an homage to that idea. It follows Robert, a tire lying in the desert that comes to life, rights itself, learns to roll, and discovers it can make objects and small animals burst. When a woman drives past, Robert tries his power on her car and then follows her down the road.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rubber (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- While writing Rubber, Quentin Dupieux designed the killer tire Robert as a bad guy with no redeeming qualities, but on set he decided that was wrong, realising "there's nothing evil about a tire", and reworked him to be "more like a stupid dog", partly influenced by the first act of WALL-E.
- The film's strand of an audience watching the tire came about because Quentin Dupieux quickly grew bored writing about a killer tire; he was partly influenced by sneaking into a screening of his earlier film Steak and finding the theatre empty, which he called "kind of scary".
- The tire's rolling was achieved with remote-controlled practical effects, which Quentin Dupieux found hard because a tire is hollow and "you can't really hide the mechanisms well"; exploding heads were done with CGI after the practical effects disappointed him.
- Dupieux included the opening speech in which Lieutenant Chad says events in movies often happen for "no reason" because he had no interest in explaining how the tire came to life, even though he knew audiences would expect such a setup.
