SURELY I’VE MENTIONED BEFORE HOW MUCH CINEFAMILY MAKES ME WISH I LIVED IN LA?!
someone in NYC…. screen this too.
important question: Assuming that Gable plays the Albert Brooks role, does Spencer Tracy play Bryan Cranston’s character or Ron Perlman’s?
#things you put your hand in hot lava for.
#1 on the list of movies I haven’t watched enough times?* THIS.
*I’ve probably seen it like 6 times. Still not enough.
are2:
Not to take anything away from certified legend Bruce Lee but… that’s actually Yuen Wah (who you may remember from his more recent amazing role as rubber tai chi Landlord in Kung Fu Hustle). Yuen Wah did most the acrobatic stand-in stunts for Lee in Enter The Dragon, and he’s a legend in his own right. It’d be a shame to erase his legacy with Lee’s.
The beginning of this supercut suggests Big Trouble In Little China is a perfect film (true) and then, by way of tongue in cheek humor over Kurt Russell’s lines, proves one of the big reasons why: The protagonist we follow (Jack Burton) is exactly like all of us, completely fucking baffled as to what exactly the hell is going on. He is in constant and impossible confusion but soldiers on through it.
Ryan Gosling’s character from Drive is what we wish we were: the well-attired smooth operator of beautiful machinery, juggernauting through life, propelled by an ourobouros of Courage and Capability. Jack Burton is what we are: bumbling and rumbling in the crusty trucks we need for our job, drawn into situations we will never truly understand, absolutely lost as to the nature of even the mundane, much less the mystical, and while blindly groping, with a little bit of luck (and cracker-jack timing) we just might make it to a successful end, whateverthefuck that means…
Ashley was just helping me make a list of film heroes whose appeal lies in their taking a beating, visibly suffering, and keeping going despite it.
So far we’ve got:
- Indiana Jones
- Ed Norton in Fight Club
- John McClane
Further suggestions welcome?
Highly interested in the results on this. Adding to list:
- Rocky (part of the appeal, at least. Are boxing movies fair to include? Also, do we count Raging Bull’s Jake LaMotta?)
- Cool Hand Luke (beatings physical and otherwise. This is possibly the greatest example of what you’re looking for in film.)
- Beatrix Kiddo certainly perseveres through some shit
- T-100 in Terminator 2 (is it cheating if they’re a robot? sorry, “cybernetic organism”)
- James Caan in Rollerball
- Jackie Chan. Not any of the characters he played, but the real life person.
The Monster: the fraud and depraved indifference that caused the subprime meltdown (via azspot)
Had a friend once who worked for Guitar World and they made them watch Glengarry Glen Ross as part of their training. Seriously, fucking Guitar World, fucking Glengarry Glen Ross. As training on how to be. because who needs being human when it gets in the way of making a buck.
