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Post by petrolino on Jun 3, 2018 2:14:21 GMT
Richard Gere
(born Richard Tiffany Gere, August 31, 1949 (age 68), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.)
“My career has never been thought out. I never engineered a career. I just have always done whatever I wanted. You’re restricted by what you’re offered… but the incredible list of brilliant directors and actors and writers I’ve worked with, you know I’m kind of amazed myself that I’ve been able to ride this career this long with such good people.”
- Richard Gere, The Independent
"I run in to Richard Gere quite a lot and he half jokes: 'Are you still saying terrible things about me?' We had a moment in our life which was not good, but everyone has to get it into perspective."
- Debra Winger, The Guardian
"Richard (Gere) is someone I always wanted to work with."
- Robert Altman, Film Press
"Everyone in Hollywood knows Quentin Tarantino wants Richard Gere. He's a huge Godard guy who loves Jim McBride's 'Breathless' and talks it up constantly. He would have gone for Gere already if John Travolta and Kurt Russell hadn't been available, no doubt."
- Kim Reed, 'Pulp Fantasies'
"The studios are interested in the possibility of making huge profits. But I'm still making the same films that I was making when I started. Small, interesting, character‑driven and narrative‑driven stories. It hasn't impacted my life at all."
- Richard Gere, The Telegraph
"I love getting older. My dad is still alive at 95. His mind is very clear and, physically, he’s a little slower but he’s still moving. I aspire to that sort of longevity. Clearly I’m not as physically flexible or strong as I was when I was a kid, but I think I am mentally flexible."
- Richard Gere speaking in 2017, The Guardian
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Post by politicidal on Jun 3, 2018 2:19:37 GMT
The Hunting Party (2007) is sorely underrated.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 3, 2018 2:26:43 GMT
The Hunting Party (2007) is sorely underrated. Never heard of it. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 3, 2018 3:20:25 GMT
Gere was badly overexposed in the 70s and 80s. You couldn't pass a newsstand without seeing a half dozen covers with his face and physique on them an the was all over TV where he came across as smug. Accordingly he was widely mocked and disliked. I though the was a decent actor though.
Can't think of more than a handful of his films that I've seen. I thought he was quite good in Chicago. He also did a widely hated remake of Breathless which I think is pretty good - maybe a 7/10. I only recently saw the original with J-P Belmondo and thought it was dreadful.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 3, 2018 3:55:07 GMT
Caught just the end of this the other night …. hope it will be on again !
Due for another re-watch … maybe it will rain someday soon !
It's been interesting watching his hair change color … rather like Steve Martin's.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 3, 2018 4:05:15 GMT
Caught just the end of this the other night …. hope it will be on again !
Due for another re-watch … maybe it will rain someday soon !
It's been interesting watching his hair change color … rather like Steve Martin's. 'An Officer And A Gentleman' is a powerful film from Taylor Hackford. Everybody seems to fixate upon the classic song, 'Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong', performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes, and rightly so. Yet it's a deceptive classic like 'Rocky' (1976), or 'Saturday Night Fever' (1977), in that it's a pretty damn depressing study of working life.
I need to give 'Pretty Woman' a second chance as I respect the hell out of Garry Marshall and generally enjoy his work. Jennifer Jason Leigh was offered the role that Julia Roberts took but rejected it on the grounds that it sugar-coated prostitution to an unacceptable level. Leigh portrayed working girls in several pictures around the time. But hey, it's a cosmic fashion fantasy with Richard Gere portraying the knight in shining armour.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 3, 2018 4:19:55 GMT
What I really liked in Pretty Woman was the kindness shown by the character played by Hector Elizondo and Vivian getting revenge on the snooty-rude-obnoxious shop-girls. It's a Saturday afternoon/rainy day modern fairy tale and taken as such, is a fun film (imo).
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Post by petrolino on Jun 3, 2018 4:28:29 GMT
What I really liked in Pretty Woman was the kindness shown by the character played by Hector Elizondo I Hey Bat. You may or may not know, but Hector Elizondo and Garry Marshall go way back. Elizondo was a scene stealer in 'Frankie And Johnny' (1991).
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jun 3, 2018 4:35:34 GMT
he was pretty cool in BREATHLESS (1983). my review here:
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 3, 2018 4:37:01 GMT
Did not know that about Hector and Garry : this from his page Considered by director/producer Garry Marshall to be his "good luck charm", and as such is offered a role in each of his movies. Appears in so many Garry Marshall films that his credit in the beginning of Exit to Eden (1994) was "As Usual... Hector Elizondo". Have ALWAYS enjoyed his performances !
Reading the BIO info … he is a multi talented guy … just the sort often featured in the petrolino threads (hint hint)
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 3, 2018 5:00:06 GMT
petrolino This quote from Gere is significant. One of the more recent examples is “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer” (2016), a fine performance in a superior indie. Gere has worked with Kurosawa in “Rhapsody In August” (1991). He plays a half Japanese American who visits his relatives in Nagasaki upon learning that his uncle had died in the atomic blast on that city. I was greatly impressed that he actually spoke Japanese for the role. Gere spent three weeks learning his lines phonetically and working with a dialog coach. Kurosawa biographer Stuart Gilbraith pronounced Gere’s Japanese as “passable.” I admire him for this effort.
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 3, 2018 5:21:00 GMT
Gere has improved with age. Internal Affairs is darn good. And speaking of the wonderful Mr Elizondo, he was a scene-stealer in another very good Gere movie, American Gigolo.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 3, 2018 5:28:51 GMT
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Post by delon on Jun 3, 2018 8:45:23 GMT
Hachiko (2009) is without a doubt my favorite Richard Gere picture . Primal Fear (1996) is another good one, although I think it loses some of its allure on a rewatch.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 3, 2018 9:57:42 GMT
I was born in an ancient Buddhist town. Richard Gere often visits my hometown when Dalai Lama begins a famous Buddhist festival in the month of January. Gere seems to be a very spiritual sort of person.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 4, 2018 18:01:14 GMT
A very underrated actor, I've binged on his filmography a few times, but it's hard to keep up because he remains quite busy as an actor. I think he was overlooked for years as just another sex symbol, since that's what made his mark, initially. But he brings the goods in movies like Brooklyn's Finest, The Hoax or Arbitrage, all of which were themselves overlooked or very few have seen. Also, Bloodbrothers (1978) is absolutely hilarious, although it's meant to be a drama, see it for yourself, it sometimes pops up on TCM.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 4, 2018 18:09:36 GMT
Did not know that about Hector and Garry : this from his page Considered by director/producer Garry Marshall to be his "good luck charm", and as such is offered a role in each of his movies. Appears in so many Garry Marshall films that his credit in the beginning of Exit to Eden (1994) was "As Usual... Hector Elizondo". Have ALWAYS enjoyed his performances !
Reading the BIO info … he is a multi talented guy … just the sort often featured in the petrolino threads (hint hint) My favorite Hector Elizondo role is as Angelo/Angela in Garry Marshall's theatrical movie directing debut, Young Doctors in Love (1982), where he plays a mob guy forced to hide out in plain sight as a woman, hilarious! He eventually starts to become more feminine the longer he's in disguise.
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 4, 2018 20:06:11 GMT
Has anyone seen his portrayal of King David in "King David?" I never saw that one, and just stumbled on it in his filmography. Looks like it got pretty bad reviews but...
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Post by teleadm on Jun 5, 2018 16:51:11 GMT
vegalyraI remember seeing King David 1985, and that it wasn't especially good, and there was a dance that was so bad that it became hillarious instead, and the audience laughed. I was at a pre-screening, having won some tickets. A biblical movie in the mid 1980's felt very odd. It might look better now when biblical spectacles are made again.
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 5, 2018 17:28:04 GMT
vegalyra I remember seeing King David 1985, and that it wasn't especially good, and there was a dance that was so bad that it became hillarious instead, and the audience laughed. I was at a pre-screening, having won some tickets. A biblical movie in the mid 1980's felt very odd. It might look better now when biblical spectacles are made again. Thanks for the reply. I enjoy a lot of Biblical based films and films about antiquity in general, so I was just curious. Gere is usually in films about contemporary life so this one struck me as unusual for his filmography.
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