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Vale Dennis Hopper

posted 14 years ago by zapkvrsc
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I hoped the local television station would drag this out in tribute to the late and esteemed Dennis Hopper sadly I was let down. I was quite impressed with this film when I saw in 1977. Australian film was going through a major renaissance and it was wonderful to see Dennis be a part of it. While it is truly shocking in its portrayal of brutality I found a lot to like about it. The production values may have stank but it had heart. Just my two cents.

If you are not busy being born, you are busy dying.

[–] jimi99 14 years ago

Yes, I just bought a VHS copy of this that was a poor transfer and watched it last night, and thought it was very strong and quite unusual. I expected it to be kind of a mess when I recently saw "Not Quite Hollywood" and both Hopper and I believe Mora said he was drunk for the whole shoot and very difficult to work with, but his performance was mostly magnetic.

I would like to see someone do a retrospective for Hopper that would include his very hard-to-see films: "The Last Movie", "Kid Blue", and "Mad Dog Morgan".

"SEDAGIVE?"