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In Reply to: David Hemmings dead. posted by patrickU on December 04, 2003 at 08:22:09:
English young film actors of the 60s. David, I argue, was in the greatest single movie of the 3.
"Blow-up" is more than a snapshot of an era. Hemmings's character defines cool: even today, his detachment from his surroundings is arresting, and a shocking contrast to his devotion to his profession.
His apartment, car, wardrobe, way of treating women, etc.---these set a benchmark for young, urban men for the time. (My best-cousin-friend was so affected by the movie he bought a camera and eventually became a Vogue photographer in Rome).
The movie worked on many levels. Beautiful photography. Excellent score. Smashing "birds."
But, it was also a brilliant artistic achievement, combining social criticism within a very clever detective story.
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If, Oh Lucky Man, and a Clockwork Orange, none of which would have worked without McDowell as the angry young man and 3 films that really pushed the envelope for their time
Get Carter is a masterpiece, the Italian Job an amusement; Caine did many more
Eric
What about Alfie? hein?
I think that Finney was the better actor, Stamp had not done the real move for a star career...and Dave, through a sexy boy was more " a guest his life long....
Wenn i look at it two or three years ago, I found it long and boring, a curiosity..a dinausore....but how could I not love it...it is a firm part of my life.
Of course, Michael. For some reason, I think of him as being older than the others, which he's not. Same with Sean Connery.
Stamp, btw, was excellent in Billy Budd and a very scary thriller called something along the lines of When Darkness Falls. The Collector, of course, is what he'll be remembered for.
Caine and Stamp were close buddies, they shared a flat in London...Terence was very generous when Mikel has not a penny....
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