A highly enjoyable Quentin Tarantino scripted movie that already spiked the oddball meter by casting Gary Oldman and Val Kilmer, among others.
In a world of madness, both real and scripted, Hopper’s acid casualty character might have been as insane as anyone else…or perhaps totally lucid but incapable of expressing himself.Ġ4) Clifford Worley in True Romance. But Hopper lights up the second half and raises the ante in this great John Dahl film.Ġ3) The Photojournalist in Apocalypse Now. Walsh stole the picture (as he often did as one of the best character actors of all time) in the role Hopper was initially cast in. It’s really Nicolas Cage’s picture, and one could argue that J.T. “ What the hell is wrong with freedom? That’s what it’s all about!”Ġ2) Lyle From Dallas in Red Rock West. The movie that started it all, or at least launched Hopper and Peter Fonda into the heart of the counterculture film movement that would change the face of Hollywood. But since he was such a character in real life, here are ten Dennis Hopper characters I will always remember:Ġ1) Billy in Easy Rider. Still, Hopper had a long and varied career in television and films, and a definitive best-of is impossibly subjective. We were blessed to share this mortal coil with him for so long.
Like Keith Richards, most felt he wouldn’t make it out of the 60s alive, let alone the 70s, but both proved resourceful and resilient and capable of creating great work… albeit not quite as frequently. Actor, painter, director, producer, humanitarian, counterculture icon, thorn in the side of the predictable…we lost a great one this week when cancer claimed the life of Dennis Hopper.
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