Sometimes a 6ers just isn't enough to
quench a man sized thirst but I'll give you what Ive got. Here's the
next nomination for Best Picture for the week of C.
From 1971 Mike Nichols Carnal Knowledge
The world of pussy is a catch 22 for
some men. Jonathan & Sandy believe that sex should answer that
conundrum that is the world women. In the end the search for such
things only lead to emotion turmoil & in the end emptiness. You
need to look for more in a woman then what is just between her legs.
One last award to get to until the
week's Blue Ribbon is handed out.
Serving up The Best Male
Performance – The Bud
From Captain Blood Errol Flynn as Peter
Blood
Captain Blood made Flynn a box office
star & rightfully so. He's great in the role. Full of integrity
even though he turns to the life of piracy. He carries a presence
from the Golden Age of Hollywood full of good looks & charisma.
He sorta reminds me of the first incarnation of Christian Bale but Im
sure he didn't threaten to beat some serious ass on the set of the
production.
From Convoy Ernest Borgnine as
Cottonmouth
Borgnine is such a delicious son of a
bitch in Convoy that it may be my favorite role of the veteran actor.
Taking payoffs, wrongful arrests & on a personal vendetta
mission to gun down the Rubber Duck Borgnine helps me to hate the law
even more then I do but all the while loving them as well.
From Carlito's Way Al Pacino as Carlito
Brigante
Pacino is hardly ever bad & more
often then not he's brilliant. W/ Carlito he's super cool as a man
that is trying to play it straight when given another chance who in
the end just wants to escape to paradise w/ the woman he loves once
the shit hits the fan. Even his narrative is ingenious.
From Carlito's Sean Penn as David
Kleinfeld
Penn is a natural chameleon in
Carlito's Way. Just his look as a Jewish lawyer will make you take a
2nd look. Penn plays Kleinfeld like a fine ageing wine
into the consumption of drugs & corruption to finally a man who
really forgets his origins into a world where he's in way over his
head.
From Cutter's Way John Heard as Alex
Cutter
Heard is mesmerizing as a handicapped
fireball of piss. He spins a special kind of magic because @ his
alcoholic core the bitterness is poison & all in all he is not a
respectable man (even if he's out for revenge for the murder of his
wife in the end) but you can't help but love him. It's almost like
tragic comedy.
From Carnal Knowledge Jack Nicholson as
Jonathan
So often Nicholson's legend proceeds
him. In Carnal Knowledge Im sure many men will see a reflection of
themselves in him where they so often in youth look only skin deep &
miss what is important in a woman out of fear & selfishness.
Nicholson never grows out of that & never learns otherwise left
to an actual life of unfulfilled emptiness.
..& the winner is
John Heard for Cutter's Way
As a long time movie fan I am actually
a little ashamed that I hadn't seen Cutter's Way sooner. The fact
that John Heard's performance isn't talked about more often is almost
criminal. He's fucking brilliant. When watching this I was like
'who the fuck is John Heard?'. A small search & I put the face
to the name but for everything else I have seen him in nothing can
remotely touch what he does here. It's a performance of a life time
& the best that I have seen in a film that I have never seen
before in years.
Getting to the bottom of this pack.
Reaching in for the last one.
..Be back after this
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