The best movie ever made (IMHO) - RIP Robert Redford

[Daniel Cary]

"Jaws" even if it's not your cup,

The acting is great. But they say "what made that movie" .. was when their joking turned serious about the USS Indianapolis.

 

[Daniel Cary]

This was Profund .. finally, someone stood up. The brutal truth! Tom Hanks pissed.

 

[sgtsabai]

RIP Robert Redford not only a great actor but a great person that did lots of good. Established the Sundance Festival. Not sure they make them like him anymore. Nobody mentioned but The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand was a great movie that captured so much of the times and so much we lost. Sad. Jeramiah is hard to beat.

 

[PCC600]

Yeah I loved that movie as well...learnt latter that Finch Hatton was bald.....cant get that one out of my head

And wore a pith helmet !

 

[Kevin375]

RIP Mister Redford.
I really like Jeremiah Johnson but yesterday, when I heard his death, my first thought was his character in Out of Africa with the beautiful Merryl Streep and especially the lion scene.
I really like the Holland & Holland double rifle he used to carry.

 

[PCC600]

RIP Mister Redford.
I really like Jeremiah Johnson but yesterday, when I heard his death, my first thought was his character in Out of Africa with the beautiful Merryl Streep and especially the lion scene.
I really like the Holland & Holland double rifle he used to carry.

The 318 Westley Richards used by Meryl Streep is a nice bolt action too .

 

[Daniel Cary]

Steve Mcqueen .. never wore his emotions. Newman never took shit from a woman.

I wish everyone could really watch 'Sometimes a Great Notion"

 

[Russ16]

I will put Jaws firmly in my top 5. Robert Shaw was amazing.

If this is turning into a best movie ever made thread I cast my vote for Lawrence of Arabia. Definitely the best cinematography.

But Redford has a deep a great catalog.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

If this is turning into a best movie ever made thread I cast my vote for Lawrence of Arabia. Definitely the best cinematography.

But Redford has a deep a great catalog.

Nah... I think there is already a thread for that. This was remembering Robert Redford, and me feeling a tiny bit of my childhood slip away, while remembering his movie and that role that had such an impact on my young life. Given the gist of this site, I strongly suspected I was not alone in that. Trapping became my passion after that movie, and helped pay for college after HS. Here was a day on the line during college.

McManus had a really good story about wanting to become a mountain man, when he was a kid, and, as an adult, wondering where it all went wrong. I sometimes wonder the same thing. At age 58 is it too late to buy a horse, a Hawken, and make it happen?

 

[Josh P]

Watch yer top knot.

 

[Sideshow]

Thought this was a nice article written about Redford and Newman.

Classic films, pranks and a crushed Porsche: Redford and Newman’s rare friendship

After first meeting while making ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’, the two Hollywood greats forged an enduring relationship. Kevin E G Perry looks back at one of cinema’s great bromances

www.the-independent.com

 

[Kelly G]

"Del Gue with a G"

 

[Tundra Tiger]

"Del Gue with a G"

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Two of the best lines of the movie, by Del:

"I've got a fine horse under me"
"T'weren't Mormons"

 

[FlyGuy]

RIP Robert Redford.
When I heard about his passing; the first thing I thought about was the lighting in A River Runs Through It.

We have very few actors and directors of that calibre still with us.

 

[baxterb]

He played an excellent Denys Finch Hatton in Out of Africa.

I don’t know that his portrayal was quite accurate (beyond even the accent) but the performance is great. Whether or not he captured the historical persona, he certainly played the character very well.

To be hionest, I think he did. I have read about everything on Denys that is out there - including some personal letters. I think he was very much an 'on his own terms' kind of man. Intelligent, adventurous, humorous, but a bit aloof. Kept a small but quality friend group, cared a great deal about wildlife and its future (wrote articles for the Times about it in the late 20s), and utterly competent. JA Hunter called him one of his best, if not his best, friend. That's why i forgive the American accent, full head of hair, and straight teeth ;-).

I would have loved to have known him.