Morgan The Pimp?
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He got an Oscar nod...
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First time I ever saw him play the bad guy. He was pretty good at it.
You look like the kind of girl who won't press charges
what about Hard Rain???
WE JUST WANT THE MONEY!!!!
oh man great completely ridiculous movie couldn't have been any more over the top if Christopher Walken was in it!
Didn't see that one, but Morgan Freeman never turns in a bad performance, even in a piece of crap like Robin Hood.
You look like the kind of girl who won't press charges
oh man you have to see Hard Rain...morgan is morgan which is to say he's as good as an actor can possibly be given the circumstances of the movie which is comepletely ridiculous!(or the shooting of the movie which i remember when it came out reading about how nightmerish of a shoot it was...betty white and randy quaid of all people were telling entertainment weekly how weird it was shooting it--they all shot it in a flooded soundstage! just barely avoiding getting electrocuted!)
anyways you have to see it. not that morgan does anything spectacular but he does manage to keep a straight face throughout all of it....so that right there is pretty spectactular.
I'll smoke a bowl and check it out!
You look like the kind of girl who won't press charges
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I can't believe people are damning him with faint praise like "pretty good"! C'mon people, Morgan Freeman gives a sensational performance in Street Smart - he should definitely have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar that year. He was absolute dynamite.
shareAnother excellent tough-guy role he does is "Johnny Handsome". He's a very nasty, cynical cop.
The Wookie has no pants.
His character in Hard Rain is hardly a "bad guy". He's a thief, but not an all out bad guy like Randy Quaid is in the film.
shareMorgan is the man! In this film he plays a wise jive smooth talking pimp. Is all smooth one minute, then breaks a bottle and puts it to your face in the next. What a bad-ass!
"Do you know what a .44 Magnum does to a womans pussy? - Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
He OWNED the role.
His was the absolute *best* performance in the movie ~
"There's a band playing on the radio ~ With a rhythm of rhyming guitars"
I really enjoyed Hard Rain, and I've must have seen it at least six times.
I Thought the performances were great, though the situations contrived (but hey, it's a movie).
Absolutely the wettest film I have ever seen. Waterworld doesn't even come close.
Short Cut, Draw Blood
Boy: Mah-Tee, Mah-Tee ... [Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson]
Freeman's pimp: Man, shut the *beep* up.
... at least, that's how I remember it. share
He deserved the Oscar nom but the Oscar that year belonged to Denzel Washington for playing Steve Biko in Cry Freedom.
"You want me to roll 6,000 of these!? What? Should I quit my job!?" George Costanza, Seinfeld
But Freeman really channeled his inner Richard Pryor for this role. He was Fast Black, slap-happy cynical street pimp who was nonetheless unprepared for the Machiavellian machinations of those wily big city Harvard grads. This was one of those "rich guy or girl rubs elbows with the dangerous poor people and just barely makes it out alive but is mostly unscathed" movies that Zizek speaks of.
"Ass to ass. Ha ha ha ha. ASS TO ASS!"; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5z77EI8y0
It was a great role by a soon-to-be-acknowledged-as-great actor. I think it's only in retrospect that it's hard to see him as a character like this. At the time, critics and industry insiders were raving about the "new" guy in this role.
shareI remember seeing this movie on video sometime in the late 80's. The story was so-so but what gave me the chills was Morgan Freeman's performance. I really thought that had hired a thug to play a pimp. I never forgot his name after that performance. I will always remember him for that role.
shareSame on all counts -- film was okay, but Freeman was unforgettable. And I also wondered whether they had hired right off the street. (Pretty hilarious, given what people know about him now.) What a career. I mean, when you get to be the go-to Voice of God, you know you've done something right.
shareFantastic! I dunno if that was 1 of his 1st roles I saw him in, but the only thing I remembered him from before was from 'The Electric Company!'. I was watching this movie, he comes on acts all badass, I'm thinking, "my God, look at Easy Reader!", LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9eX2ajK3A4
Two movie characters have frightened me.
Dustin Hoffman in “Straight Time”.
The other is Morgan Freeman in “Street Smarts.”
I would have been afraid to meet him in person.
The scariest crazy ******* I had ever seen on film.
Yet seven years later, his tender regret in Shawshank moved me to tears.
I absolutely would have given him the Oscar for SS.