TheCoolerKing said:
However, as tough as he is, he's not the toughest actor of all time.
Bull fucking shit. I'd say Eastwood, but he's gone soft in his age. Bronson never did.
LEE MOTHERFUCKING MARVIN
Three words:
Paint. Your. Wagon.
All that means is that Lee Marvin made musicals acceptable for people like my paternal grandfather, a whiskey-drinking, chain-smoking, dirty-mouthed redneck. He apparently sang "I Was Born Under A Wandering Star" when he got drunk.
Marvin was a United States Marine with a Purple Heart. He's buried at Arlington. Polish coal miner is close, but not quite.
And let's not forget Cat Ballou, a comedy in which he was both a murderous badass and a hilarious drunken badass.
The general formula is to take anything he ever did in his entire life and append or prepend "badass" accordingly.
Same-name bias is put on the table. I'll cop to it. I'm also going to have to say that oyaji's evidence presented for Bogart is pretty stellar. Still, he wasn't the one guy that they had to invent palimony for.
Oh, and how many of these other fellows ever played the most bad-ass hobo of all time?
I'm not really sure anymore if I'm making my case or not...
mrnonel
Los Angeles, CA
August 2004
NOV 07, 2007 05:57 PM