i think you could pull off dustin hoffman in marathon man...
Thomas "Babe" Levy (lenny) is a Columbia graduate student and long-distance runner who is oblivious to the fact that his older brother, Doc (Roy Scheider), is a government agent chasing down a Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier) -- that is, until Doc is murdered and Babe finds himself knee-deep in a tangle of stolen gems and sadistic madmen. Even his girlfriend, Elsa (malice), becomes a suspect as everything Babe believed to be true is suddenly turned upside down.
i think you could pull off dustin hoffman in marathon man...
Thomas "Babe" Levy (lenny) is a Columbia graduate student and long-distance runner who is oblivious to the fact that his older brother, Doc (Roy Scheider), is a government agent chasing down a Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier) -- that is, until Doc is murdered and Babe finds himself knee-deep in a tangle of stolen gems and sadistic madmen. Even his girlfriend, Elsa (malice), becomes a suspect as everything Babe believed to be true is suddenly turned upside down.
Thank you.
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Ok I’d give that to Adam Driver, but Gyllenhaal is way way up there
Oh he's easily one of my very favorites, but i'm not sure what the general consensus here is at least.
Those two, Oscar Isaac, and Tom Hardy are probably my favorite non-character actors of this era. I'm sure there's a few others that are right behind, but my mind is blanking a bit on specific names.
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
Jorge wrote:I love TC and he's great in the roles he plays. Really don't care that he's not a showy actor with a broad range
He doesn't have a broad range but he's the poster child for showy.
I don’t think this is fair. I think he had a vast knowledge of his film works — the technology and the marketplace — and he’s become uncannily good at picking projects that will showcase his particular range
What part of my post is unfair? That he doesn't have a broad range?
