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Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
★ 5.5 · 316 ratings on TMDB
The Bandit is back and better than ever!
The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.
DirectorHal Needham
The emergence reading
Smokey and the Bandit II keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
