i can’t decide which is the quintessential dennis role for me so i won’t try – maybe in time i’ll settle on one – but in the meantime, rest in peace dear mr. hopper, and thanks for the memories :-*
“If there’s one thing I can’t fucking stand it’s warm fucking beer!” I have fond memories of watching BLUE VELVET for the first time and Dennis Hopper’s performance in that one scaring the living crap out of me.
I just watched RIVER’S EDGE a little while ago and was struck by how sad and melancholic his performance was in that one. There was a lot of pain behind his eyes, much of it real I’m sure.
watching BLUE VELVET for the first time was one of the top unforgettable moviegoing experiences of my life. And while Hopper was spectacular, I have to say that when Dean Stockwell showed up, the movie was stolen.
Oh yeah, Stockwell steals it in that scene where he lipsynchs to Roy Orbison. What a mesmerizing sequence! I love Jack Nance’s little bit where at one point he claps his hands near Kyle MacLachlan’s head and says, “I’m Paul.” Makes me laugh every time.
frank booth is one of the all-time great cinema psychos and sadists precisely because he is terrifying, hilarious, completely insane and obviously in a great deal of mental pain and anguish all at the same time, which makes him complex and unique as well as just gobsmackingly watchable and cringe-inducing in his villainy
May 29, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Now it’s dark.
May 29, 2010 at 10:59 pm
PABST BLUE RIBBON!
May 30, 2010 at 12:45 am
wow, truly the end of an era
i can’t decide which is the quintessential dennis role for me so i won’t try – maybe in time i’ll settle on one – but in the meantime, rest in peace dear mr. hopper, and thanks for the memories :-*
May 30, 2010 at 10:40 am
I mean, this is a guy who debuted in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE in 1955. He lived through six decades of filmmaking….
May 30, 2010 at 4:54 pm
THE FUTURIST! read today that John Wayne chased Hopper, in a anger, on the set of TRUE GRIT, with a loaded gun.
May 30, 2010 at 5:45 pm
“Get outta here ya goddam pinko bastard!”
May 30, 2010 at 6:16 pm
“The artist is always alone…”
June 1, 2010 at 7:08 am
“If there’s one thing I can’t fucking stand it’s warm fucking beer!” I have fond memories of watching BLUE VELVET for the first time and Dennis Hopper’s performance in that one scaring the living crap out of me.
I just watched RIVER’S EDGE a little while ago and was struck by how sad and melancholic his performance was in that one. There was a lot of pain behind his eyes, much of it real I’m sure.
June 1, 2010 at 10:01 pm
watching BLUE VELVET for the first time was one of the top unforgettable moviegoing experiences of my life. And while Hopper was spectacular, I have to say that when Dean Stockwell showed up, the movie was stolen.
June 2, 2010 at 6:50 am
Oh yeah, Stockwell steals it in that scene where he lipsynchs to Roy Orbison. What a mesmerizing sequence! I love Jack Nance’s little bit where at one point he claps his hands near Kyle MacLachlan’s head and says, “I’m Paul.” Makes me laugh every time.
June 2, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Dean Stockwell’s scene is truly the most dream-like moment I’ve ever experienced in a movie.
June 1, 2010 at 8:34 pm
There’s pain in Frank’s eyes, too. Check out the scene at the Slow Club where he’s fondling the fabric cut from Dorothy’s robe.
He’s misunderstood.
June 1, 2010 at 9:44 pm
frank booth is one of the all-time great cinema psychos and sadists precisely because he is terrifying, hilarious, completely insane and obviously in a great deal of mental pain and anguish all at the same time, which makes him complex and unique as well as just gobsmackingly watchable and cringe-inducing in his villainy