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Old 03-04-2009, 11:38 PM
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Agreed - William Forsythe is amazing and the scene in the bar is bad ass..

Did you know the Stick fighter (cues) in that scene is Bruce Lee student Dan Inosanto?
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Old 03-04-2009, 11:45 PM
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Agreed - William Forsythe is amazing and the scene in the bar is bad ass..

Did you know the Stick fighter (cues) in that scene is Bruce Lee student Dan Inosanto?
No I didn't know that.

Definitely... William Forsythe is great. So over the top and violent. I love that scene where he drags that women out of the car at the intersection :D

He was pretty cool in Stone Cold aswell.
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Old 03-06-2009, 02:26 PM
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looks like my tough-guy film is going to get made:D
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Old 03-06-2009, 05:03 PM
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Solid! Whats it called? Any idea who will be directing? Fred Olen Ray? :)
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Old 03-06-2009, 07:38 PM
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Solid! Whats it called? Any idea who will be directing? Fred Olen Ray? :)
can't say. yes. no.
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Old 03-07-2009, 10:18 AM
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He was pretty cool in Stone Cold aswell.
I wrote an performed a song used in that film (when I was a teenager)

The song didn't make the American cut of the fim, but I still get royalties off the song from Japan and Sweeden so it's in some version of the film somewhere
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Old 03-07-2009, 01:52 PM
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I'm a sucker for the "Hawksian" hero, the Bogart or Wayne characters of Howard Hawks' noirs and westerns, like:

The Big Sleep
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Rio Bravo

Of course I'd mention The French Connection, which is actually an unrelenting dissection and destruction of the tough guy- Gene Hackman won the Academy Award for good reason.

I quite like Scorsese's representation of "tough guys", usually becoming catch-22s and redefining themselves constantly. Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, etc.

A lesser known tough guy film which I absolutely adore is Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival). Wilder has never been tougher or meaner, and his use of Kirk Douglas as a womanizing, rough-skinned, canon of a man is extraordinary- maybe the actor's finest role.

Lastly, I have to mention some of Godards criticisms on the tough guy, mainly his protagonist in Breathless who literally molds himself after Bogart. His stubborn masculinity eventually gets him killed, but even in his last dying seconds he keeps his persona.
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