02-07-2013, 01:44 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Charles Drago Wrote:Taylor as Popeye Doyle? I think not.Oooh, no I can't see that either...Taylor is too much a gentleman. Lacks the grit of Hackman. Would have been a completely different beast with him cast as Popeye.
Exactly. Taylor's chivalry -- or rather, his ability to express a chivalric core within the gruffest of exteriors -- is on full display in the aforementioned Chuka.
So too is the exquisite Luciana Paluzzi -- although she's no Senta Berger.
But I digress.
Charles Drago
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene