Mr Willis, stay at home and polish your head.
Arnholt ...don't come back.
Eastwood try wearing spectacles it might cure your squint.
For me there was only one real manly man action hero....drum roll please.....brrrrrrrrrrr klunk......laydeeeees 'n' gennlemen I give you the hero of times past and apocalyptic futures....... Charlton Heston!!
Who else led Gods chosen people out of Egypt? Raced chariots in Rome? Still found time to show off his impressive chest rug whilst battling viral vampires as the last man on Earth? Or fought against a society that was turning humans into tasty blocks of green? He was truly the action icon of the 20th century.
He made safari jackets and cigars look cool, even his affected slightly crazy cackle of a laugh in 'The Omega Man' was something an impressionable youth knew would sound silly and slightly sad coming from anyone else but Mr Heston.
Yes he didnt emote much past a guttaral growl or sardonic smile ....but he had great big hairy gravitas.
For me the film that made me become a follower and believer in all things Heston was when I first encountered the simian wonder of 'Planet Of The Apes'. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears when even as he was bound and semi naked ( I think there was a bare torso clause in his contract ) by his gorilla captors he was able to defiantly look them in the eyes and utter the immortal line '....damn dirty ape!' .....he just had no fear.....he knew he was THE MAN and knew they would eventually know he was THE MAN.This was a man who was not afraid of a bit of interspecies flirtation....hey any port in a storm.
Mr Heston you complete me....you made the Bible exciting to me and taught me that if you do start to lose your hair ...it doesn't matter just show them the chest rug....they'll soon forget about failing head hair follicles.
You de man.
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