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In Reply to: Who were/are the "Real Men" in the movies? posted by Bambi B on December 08, 2003 at 09:19:53:
Anybody brave or crazy enough to play the roles Ruebens is a real man! (Yeah, I'm joking.)But, Peter Coyote always comes through as the real thing. He was sublimely evil in Polanski's "Bitter Moon".
Let's not forget Terrence Stamp. A man who had to lose most of his hair for his career to really blossom.
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albee33,Paul Ruebens is one of those actors- ("Barney", "Ernest" and Chevy Chase are others) whose career I could never understand. His Pee-wee character- (even the name has some kind of fetishist/molester quality (think of "pee-pee" and "wee-wee") just can't appeal to children. Rather than the wide-eyed innocence and enthusiasm he thinks he projecting, there's a frightening, slimy insanity about it- his style of fantasy is more nightmare and hallucination. And any adult will probably just watch him out of the corner of their eyes wondering how many watch lists he's on. Perhaps it's me, perhaps it's my general suspicion of the clown/ mask idiom, I'm not anywhere near his frequency- and this gives me hope.
Coyote and esp. Stamp - excellent! Stamp was absolutely brilliant as the jaded, forlorn transsexual in "Adventures of Priscilla". His was the character with the strongest real sense of a past- his tragedies were so deep and in retention, yet informed-powered the outer personality. This sympathetic quality was so powerful it was easy to cheer Stamp finding love with the bus mechanic- now there's acting!
Cheers,
Bambi B
Rubens' TV program was amazingly creative and fun. I think the rest of his negative image is unfortunate and symtomatic of the way many people in our society respond to anyone who 'strays too far' from the acceptable MOR mediocrity that defines much of the personalities in current pop culture.Coyote is simply brilliant.
Later
D
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