most underrated warren oates performance
i love warren oates but i think this film gets underrated when people talk about his work. i never see this one mentioned in articles about his best work and it wasn't even mentioned in that oates documentary "warren oates: across the border" (even though they talk to peter fonda in the doc they only show that other movie they did together the even less seen-even by me- "92 in the shade") i think oates performance in "the hired hand" ranks with his best. people only seem to talk about his work with sam peckinpah and monte hellman(not that i'm complaining too much cause his work with them is awesome) like "two lane blacktop", "the wild bunch"(which isn't a good example cause he doesn't have a big part), "bring me the head of alfredo garcia" "cockfighter" or "the shooting". and the only things not by those directors that gets mentioned are "dillinger", "in the heat of the night" or "stripes".
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