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Bruce Dern Appreciation Thread
Posted on 1/25/20 at 11:28 am
Posted on 1/25/20 at 11:28 am
He never quite broke out as an actor capable of carrying a movie, but he's always been an interesting character with a unique way of playing a villian. Sleazy yet likeable.
Defintiely cut from the post-Hollywood contract player school. Underrated talent.
This post was edited on 1/25/20 at 11:36 am
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Posted on 1/25/20 at 12:06 pm to Mizz-SEC
Was good in so many Westerns!
-One of Preacher Quint's crazy sons fighting over Joan Hacket in Will Penny.
-The murdering rustler who took the two boys to the gallows in Hang em High.
-The vermin-ridden son of a bitch from The Cowboys.
-The train robber in Posse (1975).
-Played a likable escaped convict in Harry Tracy.
-The brother, trying to avenge his brothers death, in the wheelchair duel from Wild Bill. Of course he was in the chair after Hickok shot him when he tried to help his brother during his Hickok duel.
-A rare good guy role as the judge in All the Wild Horses.
Feel like I missed some, but I'm not going to look them up. Many great non-Western roles too.
-One of Preacher Quint's crazy sons fighting over Joan Hacket in Will Penny.
-The murdering rustler who took the two boys to the gallows in Hang em High.
-The vermin-ridden son of a bitch from The Cowboys.
-The train robber in Posse (1975).
-Played a likable escaped convict in Harry Tracy.
-The brother, trying to avenge his brothers death, in the wheelchair duel from Wild Bill. Of course he was in the chair after Hickok shot him when he tried to help his brother during his Hickok duel.
-A rare good guy role as the judge in All the Wild Horses.
Feel like I missed some, but I'm not going to look them up. Many great non-Western roles too.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 12:48 pm to chinese58
Always plays the hard, grizzled type but an IRL teetotaller.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 12:55 pm to Mizz-SEC
I never knew he was in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Posted on 1/25/20 at 1:37 pm to Mizz-SEC
Dern was money in Black Sunday
Posted on 1/25/20 at 1:41 pm to chinese58
Yeah, Dern is one of the GOAT actors at playing skeevy assholes.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 2:46 pm to Mizz-SEC
Posted on 1/25/20 at 2:47 pm to Rattlehead82
Yeah, The Burbs is his GOAT. Not as far as acting wise..was just a great film.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 4:50 pm to Mizz-SEC
I can’t recommend the movie Nebraska enough to people who haven’t seen it. It was up for best picture in like 2012 or something like that. And it’s a rare movie where Will Forte plays the straight man and not the bumbling doofus
This post was edited on 1/25/20 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 1/25/20 at 6:00 pm to Mizz-SEC
in my opinion, he was one of the best things about the HBO show "Big Love" as Bill Paxton's dad. His attitude and presence on screen always brought something to the show that needed to be seen as the patriarch of such a lifestyle.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 8:35 pm to Mizz-SEC
One of my favorite movies from my youth was Silent Running, where Bruce Dern plays an astronaut that goes crazy on a space station.
Watch it if you can find it.
Watch it if you can find it.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 8:48 pm to ruzil
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One of my favorite movies from my youth was Silent Running, where Bruce Dern plays an astronaut that goes crazy on a space station.
Yes!!! I loved that movie. I think you can still buy it on DVD.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 7:50 am to Mizz-SEC
In 1979 I shared a chair lift with Bruce Dern in Vail. It was one of the old two man regular speed lifts that took about 5 minutes. I was in junior high at the time and didn’t really know much of him. He was just a regular guy sharing the good slopes he’d run that day and which ones to avoid. It wasn’t till later that I realized who he was. He would go there regularly.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 7:54 am to Mizz-SEC
He killed the Duke in "The Cowboys" and I never forgave him!
Posted on 1/26/20 at 2:16 pm to Bench McElroy
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Yeah, Dern is one of the GOAT actors at playing skeevy assholes.
He and Bradford Dillman had that unbalanced villain thing down.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 2:20 pm to LSUDonMCO
quote:Wayne gave him fare warning.
He killed the Duke in "The Cowboys" and I never forgave him!
"Yuh know there gonna HATE you for killin' me."
Dern took the role anyway.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 2:21 pm to lsutigersFTW
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I can’t recommend the movie Nebraska enough to people who haven’t seen it.
See this film.
We saw a double feature of Inside Llewyn Davis and Nebraska. It was the best night of movie-going of our lives.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 5:00 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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We saw a double feature of Inside Llewyn Davis and Nebraska.
The two best movies of the year IMO. Nebraska is severely underappreciated.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 6:04 pm to Mizz-SEC
Yep, he could play a great villain in a western. I think he was probably in dozens of Gunsmokes.
Jack Elam was damned good, as well.
Jack Elam was damned good, as well.
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