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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2019 14:50:43 GMT
Please, share your thoughts on this under-discussed Oscar nominee. I think he's just wonderful. Fun trivia: He (along with Lemmon and Mastroianni) are the only male actors to have multiple Cannes acting prizes.
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Post by stephen on May 22, 2019 14:53:54 GMT
He was one of the greatest one-scene wonders in cinematic history in Blue Velvet. Ben is such a terrifying creation, largely improvised on the spot by Stockwell (he came up with the idea of using the set light as an ersatz microphone), and I genuinely think he inspired BOB and the Mystery Man in later Lynch works.
As for the rest of his career, Stockwell is a very dependable presence who scarcely ever is let down even in the most risible of projects. He was aces in Compulsion (my runner-up that year, along with his co-star Bradford Dillman), acquits himself very well in Long Day's Journey Into Night, he's great fun in his Oscar-nominated performance (although I don't nominate him), he lends great gravitas to Paris, Texas, and I liked his TV work in Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica. Even if the movie around him was rough, he never was.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2019 14:59:14 GMT
As for the rest of his career, Stockwell is a very dependable presence who scarcely ever is let down even in the most risible of projects. He was aces in Compulsion (my runner-up that year, along with his co-star Bradford Dillman), acquits himself very well in Long Day's Journey Into Night, he's great fun in his Oscar-nominated performance (although I don't nominate him), he lends great gravitas to Paris, Texas, and I liked his TV work in Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica. Even if the movie around him was rough, he never was. I would add that he's lovely in Jack Cardiff's Sons and Lovers - the only American in the cast (I blame pacinoyes for causing me to notice such things )!
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2019 19:53:10 GMT
I've really liked him in everything I've seen him in, and yeah, his scene in Blue Velvet is in contention for being my favorite sequence in any movie.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 22, 2019 20:09:30 GMT
He's sometimes really great, but never less than dependable. He even managed to come away from The Langoliers without embarrassing himself, and that's a hell of an achievement.
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Post by stephen on May 22, 2019 20:28:07 GMT
He's sometimes really great, but never less than dependable. He even managed to come away from The Langoliers without embarrassing himself, and that's a hell of an achievement. *'80s freeze-frame jump*
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on May 22, 2019 20:45:21 GMT
He was one of the greatest one-scene wonders in cinematic history in Blue Velvet. Ben is such a terrifying creation, largely improvised on the spot by Stockwell (he came up with the idea of using the set light as an ersatz microphone), and I genuinely think he inspired BOB and the Mystery Man in later Lynch works. I now can't unnotice, after my brother pointed it out, that he spends the entire scene holding his cigarette that he never takes a puff of, leaving you with this sort of anticipation of waiting for him to do it the whole time. He only finally does just as the scene closes and he's leaving the frame as the camera pushes in on Hopper.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 22, 2019 20:47:20 GMT
He's sometimes really great, but never less than dependable. He even managed to come away from The Langoliers without embarrassing himself, and that's a hell of an achievement. *'80s freeze-frame jump* I'd forgotten that. I'm cringing just thinking about it.
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Post by stephen on May 22, 2019 20:51:45 GMT
I'd forgotten that. I'm cringing just thinking about it. It's actually -- no lie -- one of my favorite endings in a Stephen King adaptation, purely because you know that King himself wrote that on the page.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 3, 2019 1:11:35 GMT
Posting for anyone interested, Rapture (1965) - an underseen gem, a coming-of-age pic with echoes of a seacoast Gothic fairy tale. About an odd, withdrawn, yet precocious French girl who defies her strict father and falls in love with who she thinks is her scarecrow come to life (Dean Stockwell), but who is actually an escaped convict. Stockwell's perf is subtle in how he hesitates and charms, how he eludes his own intelligence (freedom) in light of a new and reluctant passion (enter: tragedy). It has serious pacing problems - the last 25 mins could be cut entirely - but keeps you invested front to back with really terrific Cinemascope visuals, the framing, movement, lighting, dissolves, etc....
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Post by Leo_The_Last on Jun 4, 2019 1:03:13 GMT
Fine actor with a lot of very interesting films under his belt, a lot of them not widely known and bound to be discovered (some of which have been mentioned here), even if they're not entirely successful.
There was a lot of bullshit going on about him in recent years, with relatives and friends and I don't know who fighting publicly on the internet about who gets to care about him after his health took a turn for the worse. But that doesn't belong on here. You just can always trust in the stupidity/indecency of people (see John Singleton).
Just because no one mentioned it yet: Married to the Mob & Tucker: The Man and his Dream.
And thanks/no thanks for the Langoliers mention. That movie traumatized me as a kid and I still dream about that stuff from time to time.
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