Word: errol
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Werner Herzog's passions are the stuff of moviemaker legend: the time he walked 400 miles, from Munich to Paris, to help a sick friend live longer; or when, having told budding director Errol Morris that if the young man ever completed a film Herzog would eat his shoe, and Morris did, Herzog ate the damn shoe...
Johnny Depp, Errol Flynn, and Robert Louis Stevenson may have imbued the image of the pirate with intensity and legend, but what this unassuming little book adds—historical relevance—is what ultimately cements pirates as some of the coolest, most colorful characters in (actual) history...
...more money at the box office than those of any other actor in history. "I want the movies I'm in to remind me of things I spent Saturday afternoons watching as a kid and then went home and pretended to be in." The Star Wars prequels satisfied his Errol Flynn swordplay fantasies. Shaft let him be the urban John Wayne. Snakes on a Plane, out Aug. 18, fulfills his love of B-movie suspense and his endless desire to watch himself kick ass. "When I think about it," he says, "a lot of my choices are wish fulfillment...
...entirely hide. In those moments he takes us behind the conventional hero's stoic mask and allows us to see Jack for what he is: a presexual child pretending to be a man of decisive action and romantic élan. You might say he's the anti--Errol Flynn...
...contemporary Owen Wilson romantic farce, and a lot of his more muscular activities are desperate existential improvisations. Depp lets us see his mental gears whirring (and very often clanking) before he takes action that in some way subverts everyone's expectations. You might say that he?s the anti-Errol Flynn...