This deserves far more comment instead of waffing on about Willie Thorne (vale). One of THE figures of the last century (not Willie Thorne, Vera).g.man wrote:Vera Lynn. 103. Good innings.
Hardly, he was absolutely top flight classical acting stock, not a bit player in B movies. He got an Oscar nod for Chariots of Fire and can sit alongside Gielgud (well maybe not Gielgud), Guinness, McKellen et al. He won an Olivier as King Lear!poprock wrote:Classic ‘that guy’.
Skerret wrote:he was absolutely top flight classical acting stock, not a bit player in B movies.
Moot_Geeza wrote:This probably isn't the time or place but I've never really got the fuss with Falling Down. It's a'ight with a few good bits.
Moot_Geeza wrote:This probably isn't the time or place but I've never really got the fuss with Falling Down. It's a'ight with a few good bits.
b0r1s wrote:Was always uncomfortable for me as a film. Felt too much like right wing propaganda. White man giving it to the brown gangs and people who don’t speak the same. Think I watched it once on release.Moot_Geeza wrote:This probably isn't the time or place but I've never really got the fuss with Falling Down. It's a'ight with a few good bits.
b0r1s wrote:Yep definitely. I don’t recall the scenes you are citing as I watched it when it first came out but that is always the problem. Same convo re parodying racists. Some of the real racists think the joke is the racist language. It’s a tricky line to balance.
cockbeard wrote:Playing a character, that ends up attracting the very audience you were trying to mock, and then being very unsure how to straddle the divide
regmcfly wrote:I have a real fondness for Schumacher's Batman films. They're so knowing and probably more comic-book than any other film maker's attempt. His canted angles and neon in Forever are torn straight out of the comics of the early 90s.
nick_md wrote:I mean, D-fens is the protagonist, but he's also a bad guy, and doesn't it speak to the impotent rage felt by people in the rat race? Railing against those they see as the problem when really they aren't? I'm sure there are people who cheer him on when he's killing cholos (I hope that's not a racist slur) because they see it as white supremacy, but I think they miss the nuance (which is a problem films can face when portraying a flawed character). He attacks rich white dudes on a golf course, for e.g. I'm sure there are other films that are appropriated by racists/extremists that are done so because subtlety is missed. I'm typing this totally off the cuff btw and expected to be corrected
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