re: Not greatest movie.....greatest movie 'scene' of all time!

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My friends and I quote that scene all the time. If noone has seen it, it is amazing on so many levels. Not only the content of the conversation, but Hopper's character's motivation for having it.

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Hopper and Walken were dear friends. They rarely got to work together, because, obviously, they typically competed for the same roles. This was an opportunity - lightning in a bottle, so-to-speak, to make this happen - you had nearly the perfect storm - Tony Scott directing (at the top of his game), Tarantino script.

While I find the movie as a whole does not live up to the some of its parts - because the leads were out of their element - think of all of the fantastic performances by the support cast - the aforementioned Walken and Hopper, Gary Oldman as Drexyl, Gandolfini as the hitman, Brad Pitt as Floyd - all of those were just exceptional performances.