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Simple dialectics

by DougJ|  May 29, 20102:46 pm| 14 Comments

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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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  1. 1.

    Cain

    May 29, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    Couldn’t you have made it an open thread?

    BTW RIP Gary Coleman.

    cain

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    licensed to kill time

    May 29, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    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?

  3. 3.

    bago

    May 29, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    Mario finally won.

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    de stijl

    May 29, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    Were Hopper’s monologues in Apocalypse Now scripted or ad libbed?

  5. 5.

    Mark S.

    May 29, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    OT-Coates on some post Lanny Davis vomited up for the Daily Caller:

    In the instance, much of what Davis cites is the inverse of reality. Davis’s conjured Rand Paul is a libertarian. The actual Rand Paul told TIME, “I’m not a libertarian.” Davis’s conjured Rand Paul is pro-choice. The actual Rand Paul wants a constitutional ban on abortion. Davis’s conjured Libertarian party nominated Rand Paul’s father, Ron Paul, for president. The actual Libertarian party nominated Bob Barr.

    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.

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    superfly

    May 29, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    @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).

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    flounder

    May 29, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    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.

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    debbie

    May 29, 2010 at 6:40 pm

    Crispin Glover certainly outcreeped Hopper in that movie, which I hadn’t thought possible.

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    flounder

    May 29, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    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.”

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    fucen tarmal

    May 29, 2010 at 9:26 pm

    “carried away”

    essential hopper.

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    jaxtra

    May 29, 2010 at 11:16 pm

    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.

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    mclaren

    May 30, 2010 at 1:02 am

    That clip is a presidential press conference circa 2021.

  13. 13.

    jimmy jazz

    May 30, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    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.

  14. 14.

    lumpenprole

    May 30, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    His scene in True Romance with Christopher Walken is a gem.

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