Who knows if he was really acting or not, but Dennis Hopper’s performance in Apocalypse Now is one of my very favorite performances in film. I hear so many things these days that remind me of this nonsense about how you can’t land on a fraction.
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Cain
Couldn’t you have made it an open thread?
BTW RIP Gary Coleman.
cain
licensed to kill time
Now why ever would a mathematician choose this particular clip? ;-)
The sad thing about Dennis Hopper is that he seemed to be stuck playing this whacked out philosophical crazy guy in every subsequent role . Anybody watch Crash, the TV series?
bago
Mario finally won.
de stijl
Were Hopper’s monologues in Apocalypse Now scripted or ad libbed?
Mark S.
OT-Coates on some post Lanny Davis vomited up for the Daily Caller:
From what I can tell, Davis decided the Libertarian platform was identical to Rand Paul’s views. The Daily Caller is barely journalism, but this deserves some Pulitzer for Sloppiness.
superfly
@de stijl: Both, i.e. loosely scripted, with plenty of ad lib, much of it riffing on various poems by T.S Eliot and Kipling (per imdb, though unclear if those exact lines were scripted, ad-libbed or both).
flounder
I loved him in the River’s Edge, which was a movie about my teenage years in many respects. Hopper was the creepy old guy who sold a little weed to the town stoners if you were willing to go hang out and pretend to be his friend for a couple hours. I totally knew this dude…except instead of having a blow up doll as a friend like Hopper does, he had 18 cats.
debbie
Crispin Glover certainly outcreeped Hopper in that movie, which I hadn’t thought possible.
flounder
Glover was a nihilistic, dangerous creepy, Hopper was a leave everyone alone and hide out with his blow up doll and weed creepy. Totally underrated teen angst movie imho, and definitely one of Keeanu Reeves best performances:
“The only reason you stay here is so you can fuck my mother and eat her food. MOTHERFUCKER. FOOD EATER.”
fucen tarmal
“carried away”
essential hopper.
jaxtra
boo effing hoo. everybody dies, some sooner than they should, others, not so much. good actor? sure, i agree. p.o.s repuglicant?, without a doubt an oscar winner. good riddance i say.
mclaren
That clip is a presidential press conference circa 2021.
jimmy jazz
If you watch the Apocalypse documentary Hearts of Darkness, Coppola hated Hopper. There’s a wonderful exchange about not being able to forget lines unless you’ve actually learned them in the first place.
lumpenprole
His scene in True Romance with Christopher Walken is a gem.