Word: dillon
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...short, a grownup is a creature very much resembling Walter Lloyd (Gene Hackman), whose patient efforts to gain the respect of his son Chris (Matt Dillon) elicit nothing more than a succession of shrugs and silences. What can Dad possibly know about the soul of a lad who wants to be a race-car driver...
...Dillon, for his part, didn’t think twice about playing a sleazy, xenophobic cop. “If it’s a good part, I do it. I don’t worry about protecting some image,” he says...
...riding along with L.A.’s finest, soliciting tips on how to play a “hard-nosed, controlling” officer “who’s bitter, and some of that bitterness comes out sideways on the job.” According to Dillon, the veteran police officer he tagged along with described brutal police officers as a relatively commonplace occurrence in the force—kicking feet out, twisting fingers together...
...When you’re in the car with them, you see their vulnerability. They feel that they have a bulls-eye on their backs,” Dillon says of the police officers with surprising sympathy...
Haggis should get used to such over-the-top declarations this early on in his directing career—“Crash” is a commendable film. Dillon is convincingly off-putting, and the rest of the cast makes the best of their limited screen time...