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Burton as action hero
posted by rudely_murraySTAFFMOD on July 10, 2019 at 10:19 AM
Where Eagles Dare is fun in its old-fashioned way (awfully long, though) but, while Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood have chemistry, it is pretty hard to accept the lumbering Burton leaping between moving cable cars thousands of feet up in the Alps.
Reply by tmdb82469342
on July 11, 2019 at 1:26 PM
Burton doesn't have to worry about the action when Eastwood's mowing down Nazi's like a motherfucking Terminator!
Reply by rudely_murray
on July 11, 2019 at 7:09 PM
Haha yes, the body count in this film is off the scale.
Reply by Strange Bedfellows
on July 12, 2019 at 4:27 AM
I don't find Richard Burton credible in very much - he is too theatrically dramatic in his speech and attitude - he is Richard Burton, the alcoholic tragedian in every role he plays.
Reply by rudely_murray
on July 12, 2019 at 7:42 PM
I agree with you to a point, actually. I think he is superb in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- one of my favourite screen performances ever, in fact -- and enjoy him in a few other roles (his last hurrah in 1984 for example). But some of his more highly-regarded work has left me underwhelmed (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) or downright unimpressed (I think his performance in Equus is terrible, particularly the wooden, turgid monologres).
Reply by Strange Bedfellows
on July 13, 2019 at 4:51 AM
I agree with you in regard to "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" but that's about it.