# Five Easy Pieces

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-easy-pieces/376707>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 17, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-easy-pieces/376707 "2006-10-17T00:08:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-easy-pieces/376707/21 "2006-10-18T03:07:42Z")

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Here is the [screenplay](http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=five_easy_pieces) - it has a title sequence over scenes and pictures of the Dupea family, including one of Robert’s recital program music: Grebner’s “Five Easy Pieces”

However that sequence wasn’t used - the movie starts on the oil rig with the titles over that. Maybe the director liked the ambiguity of “Five Easy Pieces”

The five classical pieces are:

Chopin - F Minor Fantasy  
Bach - Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue  
Mozart - Piano Concerto K271  
Mozart - D Minor Fantasia  
Chopin - Opus 28, no 4 - Prelude E Minor

The last two would be considered easy. The others are not. Bobby plays the two Chopin ones. Bobby screws 3 women in the movie. So… it doesn’t quite make sense in the movie.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-easy-pieces/376707/22 "2006-10-18T04:11:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Walloon]  
You _must_ have missed the scene with Sally Struthers. 😉  
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Well, I did see it edited for TV.  
I \*do \* remember a rather vivid scene with Sally Struthers in _The Getaway_.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-easy-pieces/376707/23 "2006-10-18T04:16:25Z")

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The composer Grebner appears to be fictitious; I can’t find anything.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-easy-pieces/376707/24 "2006-10-18T04:25:09Z")

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The Sally Struthers scene in _Five Easy Pieces_, which probably single-handedly gave it an “R” rating:

> **[Sally Struthers :: Celebrity Movie Archive](https://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/movie.php/8230)**
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> \<b\>All in the Family\</b\> star Sally Struthers having wild sex with a guy as they crash around a motel room, her large breasts seen a few times as they move around. Hi-res DVD capture from \<b\>Five Easy Pieces\</b\>.

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