Saturday, May 29, 2010
Dennis Hopper: 12 Key Films
Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper | Dennis Hopper: 12 Key Films | Photo 1 of 13 | EW.com: "From his directorial debut in ''Easy Rider'' to unforgettable performances in ''Rebel Without a Cause,'' ''Apocalypse Now,'' and ''Blue Velvet,'' a look at the unpredictable, unparalleled career of a Hollywood legend"
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I'd say Frank in Blue Velvet was pretty darned memorable.
Jeff
He was THE Tom Ripley, despite the cowboy hat.
By coincidence, I recently saw THE BOILING POINT again. Hopper completely steals the movie, even though Warners cut down his part in an attempt to turn into a Wesley Snipes slam bang action vehicle (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106455/trivia). One wonders what might have been if they had gone in the opposite direction.
Oh, and then there's RED ROCK WEST, which is pure Gold Medal fun; Hopper as bad guy Lyle from Dallas, Lara Flynn Boyle as a great femme fatale, and Nic Cage as the sucker. Good stuff indeed.
NIGHT TIDE. Way the hell ahead of COLORS, certainly.
I remember him on many many tv shows in the Fifties. He was hard to forget.
Frank in Blue Velvet (my favorite movie of all time because of Hopper's performance). And the photographer in Apocalypse Now ... great suff.
I couldn't get all the way through that EW gallery, so I couldn't tell if they included any of his western roles -- probably not. But he was perfect in portraying quick-tempered, easily manipulated losers. I remember reading somewhere that he and Henry Hathaway tended to clash, but he appeared in three or four Hathaway westerns, including TRUE GRIT. He was also convincing as a neo-Nazi in a 1963 TWILIGHT ZONE episode.
As close as they got to the westerns was THE LAST MOVIE and EASY RIDER, I'm afraid.
I'm currently watching him in Hathaway's great FROM HELL TO TEXAS in his patented whining-loser mode.
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