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• Scott - became tiresome - commonjailpig@yahoo.com 06:29:13 06/25/06 (5)
  In Reply to: George C. Scott posted by laznos on June 24, 2006 at 11:44:23:

  I feel he repeated this Patton persona time after time in following roles- making him a tiresome actor to watch in later years.

  In the early years - His comedy pratfalls and timing in "Dr Strangelove" almost upstage Sellers. Also noteworthy is his character in "The Hustler". Just wonderfully dark and complex ... "You owe me MONEY!"
  
  
  

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  • The Patton portrayal was... what you'd expect. No excitement of - tinear 09:55:10 06/25/06 (2)
    In Reply to: Scott - became tiresome posted by commonjailpig@yahoo.com on June 25, 2006 at 06:29:13:

    inventiveness just the same over the top bluster. Patton was far more complex and, yes, cultured, than Scott's portrayal. All this movie did was perpetuate what everyone always had been told about Patton.
    Boring.
    
    

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    • I disagree - rico 08:33:36 06/26/06 (1)
      In Reply to: The Patton portrayal was... what you'd expect. No excitement of posted by tinear on June 25, 2006 at 09:55:10:

      I felt that the film and Coppola's screenplay went out of its way to portray the complexity of the man and his motivation. I hardly think this film is "boring".

      
      
      

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      • Re: I disagree - klaus 06:37:08 06/27/06 (0)
        In Reply to: I disagree posted by rico on June 26, 2006 at 08:33:36:

        There's something wrong about Scott as Patton, and it's age.

        Scott was 42, Patton - by the end of the war - was 60, and his photographs look much older. Physically, he was ageing quickly - and in the film, Scott in 1945 looks as fresh as in 1943... no complexity here.
        
        

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  • Hardcore - laznos 08:54:28 06/25/06 (1)
    In Reply to: Scott - became tiresome posted by commonjailpig@yahoo.com on June 25, 2006 at 06:29:13:

    He also gave an outstanding performance in Paul Schrader's "Hardcore", about a man searching for his teenage daughter who had run away and was making porno films.

    When Peter Boyle shows him the porno film of his daughter, Scott is like a volcano about to erupt.
    
    

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    • Scott was an actor that never quite got the roles that his talent deserved... - TWB 09:49:46 06/25/06 (0)
      In Reply to: Hardcore posted by laznos on June 25, 2006 at 08:54:28:

      besides the previously mentioned Hardcore and Patton I always loved him in "The Flim Flam Man".
      
      

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