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Gary Oldman is one of the best actors I've had the privilege of seeing. Consider that Mr. Zorg, Winston Churchill, and George Smiley, are played by the same person, is amazing.
as well as James Gordon, Norman Stansfield and Harry Truman.
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Michael Caine apparently is similar. I see no other reason why he would have done the (wonderful) movie "Water".
There’s his infamous quote about being in Jaws 3 : I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
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The famous B52 cockpit - From wikipedia: > Lacking cooperation from the Pentagon in the making of the film, the set designers reconstructed the aircraft cockpit to the best of their ability by comparing the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress and a single photograph of the cockpit of a B-52 and relating this to the geometry of the B-52's fuselage. The B-52 was state-of-the-art in the 1960s, and its cockpit was off-limits…
Source for that last fact? I was curious which president, so I looked it up and the creation of the Situation Room was ordered by JFK who was assassinated before the movie was even released.
I know everyone is talking about how he voiced Vader, but when I think of him, I think of Strangelove and Hunt for Red October. I didn't spend a lot of time in the fleet, but what I did was rather boring and/or annoying; the idea that something exciting would happen in the CIC is probably why I often think of the line "Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I wa…
But, no, his best role (BR) is as GENERAL JAMES SOLOMON in the best video series ever, command and conquer!
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There’s his infamous quote about being in Jaws 3 : I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
He was in Jaws: The Revenge which is the 4th Jaws movie.
A few months later, we received two large 3x3' posters in the mail. Blown-up photos of us working together that day. In the lower right-hand corner of each, he had signed them, "May the force be with you! JEJ / To my friend, Best Wishes, JEJ (AKA Mustafa)."
What an awesome guy. I just pulled those pictures out, and 29 years later, I’m still filled with awe and immense gratitude.