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Post by rick on Mar 9, 2020 14:48:36 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Mar 9, 2020 18:13:41 GMT -5
Very sad day whenever any great actor departs this world. It's especially true for von Sydow, indisputably one of the greatest actors to come from Europe, thanks to the his fellow Swede, director Ingmar Bergman. And then to get such diverse roles as portraying no less than Jesus for director George Stevens in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, followed eight years later by THE EXORCIST, speaks extremely well of the man (IMHO).
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Post by rick on Mar 9, 2020 22:12:51 GMT -5
Yes, Erik, von Sydow was one of the greats.
One of my favorite characters he portrayed was the artist Frederick in "Hannah and Her Sisters." In the film, he is living with Barbara Hershey and he spouts off on TV, in general, and specifically about televangelists --
Frederick: " You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers. Third grade con men telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak with Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. "
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Post by erik on Mar 9, 2020 22:34:23 GMT -5
So true.
There is also an anecdote about von Sydow playing, basically, The Devil in the 1993 film adaptation of the Stephen King novel Needful Things, where he was directed by Charlton Heston's son Fraser Clarke Heston. Fraser, who was born in 1955, played the Baby Moses in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. which helped make his father a household name on the big screen. One crew member on NEEDFUL THINGS remarked: "Now that's something you don't see everyday--Moses telling Christ how to play the Devil."
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Post by rick on Mar 11, 2020 14:30:36 GMT -5
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