I’ve seen a lot of people referencing Night Moves today. Is that a well known Hackman movie? I love it and have it on DVD, but it’s so old and barebones that it just starts playing when you put it in. No menu, no special features, just right to the start.
My Sports Feature Writing class read your Iditarod story for today's session and you claimed in it that you weren't a dog person and now I can't trust anything else you wrote either
Nicely written. I don’t disagree with a single word. And I’m so glad you included his uncredited role in ‘Young Frankenstein’ - it’s hysterical, and he’s clearly having a lot of fun. He became one of my favorite actors when I saw ‘The Conversation’ (I was very young) - devastating.
One quibble - even when overdoing it, I wouldn't say Bogart was a forceful actor, overpowering us. Or at least not in the same way other actors do. He's too casual, too comfortable to do that.
No, I don’t mean he tries too hard, or even hard at all — more that Bogart is always fully, iconically Bogart, and Hackman could sort of ride the fader of his own persona a bit more, turning it up or down depending on the circumstances. Probably a uselessly vague thought, but it made sense to me!
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One student described your outing to Russia as a "side quest" and I thought that was funny.
One quibble - even when overdoing it, I wouldn't say Bogart was a forceful actor, overpowering us. Or at least not in the same way other actors do. He's too casual, too comfortable to do that.
Though there's something entirely Hackman about all those disparate roles - maybe just the understated tone, the voice, the ability to morph quickly.
I recently discovered Night Moves, what a fun role for him.