--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > Sometimes you don't even need many props or special > > > effects to create a believable, "lived in" SciFi universe. > > > "A Boy and His Dog" > > > > Gosh! I haven't thought about that movie in about 25 years! It's > > the movie that made Don Johnson famous. > > Fantastic movie. Did it really make him famous, > though? I thought it was "Miami Vice"; he made > "Boy and His Dog" about a decade earlier.
You're right...he became more famous through "Miami Vice". It's more accurate to say that through "A boy and his dog" he came to people's attention. As often happens in Hollywood when a movie isn't that successful monetarily but gains a cult following through great performances, the "right people" see it and an unknown stand out...and that's how he or she may get bigger and more famous parts in the future. A perfect example of this is a movie I mentioned in an earlier post, which I just love: "The long, good Friday" starring Bob Hoskins. Well, the movie that really made Hoskins famous and well-known in America was probably "Who framed Roger Rabbit" which came out in '88. But what really brought him to everyone's attention was, first, his performance as mob boss Harold Shand in "The long, good Friday" which came out in 1980 and which very few people -- at least in America -- saw. But cinemaphiles -- of which there are loads in the movie industry in Hollywood -- saw him and noted him...'cause it's, simply, an incredible performance. You will see an actual portrayal of what I can only describe as a leopard or a tiger embodying a man's personae in his performance. Quite incredible. And then Hoskins did "Mona Lisa" in '86, also a tour-de-force which, although more well known than "The long, good Friday" wasn't seen by that many here. > > Two of my favorites are "Soylent Green" I see alot of movies and for some reason I've never seen "Soylent Green"...but I feel I've seen it because the Saturday Night Live skit about it is so hilarious. It think it was Phil Hartmann who keeps yelling "Soylent Green is people!" that is what stays with me...and I laugh just thinking about it! > and > "Colossus: The Forbin Project." Both are fairly > conventional early '70s films stylistically, but > with top-drawer direction, intelligent scripts, > and superb acting, so they don't seem dated. > > Possibly inspired by a brilliant against-type > performance from Edward G. Robinson, Charlton > Heston has what may be his best acting role in > "Soylent Green." > > "Colossus" has a no-name cast except for Eric > Braeden, who went on to make a name for himself in > soap opera roles. It's a pretty standard evil- > supercomputer plot, but quite imaginatively done, > with a knockout quasi-theological twist at the > end (which no review I've read seems to have > noticed). > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
