***Geek Movie Character Draft*** 5-Points OTC

[BiffTannen 1,155]

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5.5 Tommy DeVito - Goodfellas

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@BeenHereBefore

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5.6 Clarence Worley- True Romance - Wildcard

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@jerryskids

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30 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

5.6 Clarence Worley- True Romance - Wildcard

nice, such a great movie

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Just now, Herbivore said:

nice, such a great movie

Thanks and yea probably in my top 5 all time.

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1 hour ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Thanks and yea probably in my top 5 all time.

I remember watching it thinking is this the best movie of all time? so many great scenes.

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41 minutes ago, Herbivore said:

I remember watching it thinking is this the best movie of all time? so many great scenes.

Yea seen it at the theater twice when it came out and actually a lot other draftable characters in it.

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12 hours ago, 5-Points said:

5.5 Tommy DeVito 

 

 

[jerryskids 7,100]

5.7  John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Hero 

6.1  Paul Crewe, The Longest Yard, Sports

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@BeenHereBefore

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6.2 Martin Riggs - Lethal Weapon - WC

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16 hours ago, Herbivore said:

4.7 Hans Landa Villain

 

Somehow I have never seen this movie.  But as luck would have it, it came up in my Netflix recs because 11/30 is the last day they will carry it.  So I've started watching it.  I spend about 15 minutes each day slow watching a show (usually a series) while I stretch, so I should end around that date.   

15 hours ago, 5-Points said:

Sorry, the brunch thing captured my attention. Great pick! 

Thanks.  I'm really enjoying your team so far.  Josey Wales kinda threw me for a loop.  That's probably my favorite western, but at that point in the draft I was focusing on what I'd consider more "chalky" picks.  Now I'm sad that I'll never get Josey.  But it made me rethink my approach to the draft. 

On a related note, I took a 2 hour class/presentation last week on Clint Eastwood's westerns which was incredibly educational.  We learned about his early days doing bit roles for Universal (they didn't renew his contract because he spoke through his teeth and squinted too much, heh heh).  Then a part in Rawhide which led to being cast in Fistful of Dollars.  Fistful was a throw-away movie:  a studio from Italy teamed with one in Spain to shoot two films (saving money on props).  I don't even remember the name of the "main" one.  But Fistful was the first western by Sergio Leone, and he created this concept of the western anti-hero.  They chose Clint because he was known to American audiences from Rawhide, but wasn't a star to command a large salary.  But as they say, the rest is history.

Leone also pioneered the "less-is-more" tension of the shootout.  To that point, most shootouts were a few seconds, maybe 30 tops.  The shootout at the end of Good Bad Ugly, though, was 6 minutes long.  Not a word is spoken.  We watched the whole thing, I forgot how good that was.

Clint liked to do different takes on classic western themes.  Josey Wales, for instance, was inspired by the John Wayne movie The Searchers, which I just learned from Wiki was AFI's pick for best western ever.  In that movie, Wayne was also a confederate soldier who lost some of his family to a raid, but by Comanches, not soldiers.  The movie centers around Wayne's journey to find and rescue this family members who were abducted, killing the Comanche chief in the end.  In Josey, the Comanches are NOT the bad guys, and it explores if white folk can co-exist with them.