Five Easy Pieces of four: The title of "Five Easy Pieces" refers not to the women its hero makes along the road, for there are only three, but to a book of piano exercises he owned as a child. The film, one of the best American films, is about the distance between that boy, practicing to become a concert pianist, and the need he feels 20 years later to disguise himself as an oil-field rigger. When we sense the boy, tormented and insecure, trapped inside the adult man, "Five Easy Pieces" becomes a masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity... The movie is joyously alive to
Bob Rafelson Royal Geographical Society, honest or treacherous." Rafelson later observed, "I was very lucky to make that movie. And I can tell you, if there was ever a movie that I enjoyed making, it was that one." In 1992 Rafelson teamed up with Nicholson and "Five Easy Pieces" screenwriter Carole Eastman for the film "Man Trouble". In 1996 he made his last film with Nicholson to date, "Blood and Wine". His most recent films are 1998's "Poodle Springs" and 2002's "No Good Deed", based on works by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, respectively. "No Good Deed" was entered into the 24th