Stellar performance as the weary knight in "The Seventh Seal", a film more than 60 years old. Well worth seeing today and to some - with the elements of a plague in the background - of particular contemporary relevance.
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#22I recently watched Flash Gordon for the first time since the 1980s, and Max Von Sydow's performance was a definite highlight. Casting a `proper' actor as the villain in a silly movie is always a great idea. (See, for example, Basil Rathbone in The Court Jester .)
Another example: Frank Langella as Skeletor in Masters of the Universe. According to the actor himself, one of his favorite roles.
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#23Pity they didn't mention Dune. Not the best film, nor a big role for him, but for young me it was still a wonderful experience to watch this. He replaced the imagined book version of Kynes forever in my head. Peace.
"Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world."
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#24I think he was great in The Emigrants and The New Land.
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#25What an amazing actor, he had so many fine performances during his career. I loved him in Dune, and also this cameo as King Osric in Conan the Barbarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVTOag1lQHc
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#26He was perfect as Leland Gaunt in Needful Things. And his little turn as Joubert in Three Days of the Condor makes the life of a professional assassin seem almost reasonable.
He has but a scene in Conan the Barbarian, but what a scene! "What daring! What outrageousness! What insolence! What arrogance! ... I salute you."
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#27Pity they didn't mention Dune. Not the best film, nor a big role for him, but for young me it was still a wonderful experience to watch this. He replaced the imagined book version of Kynes forever in my head. Peace.
First saw him in Three Days of the Condor, which I loved as a kid.
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#28To Americans with Scandinavian/Swedish ancestors (there sure are a lot of you), I really recommend watching these two movies starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emigrants_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Land
They are based on a series of novels (1949 and onwards) by Vilhelm Moberg chronicling the fate of a family who decides to migrate from famine/poverty-stricken Sweden to the US in the mid 1800s. A full 25% of the Swedish population ended up migrating to the US.
These two movies made Max iconic and so beloved to pretty much everyone in Sweden. They are also fantastic movies; I find myself rewatching them once every 5 years or so.
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#29Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess
Out of all the roles he played I remember him best as the knight from The Seventh Seal. Somehow his looks, demeanor and way of talking perfectly fit that of a stereotypical medieval knight.
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#30I recently watched Flash Gordon for the first time since the 1980s, and Max Von Sydow's performance was a definite highlight. Casting a `proper' actor as the villain in a silly movie is always a great idea. (See, for example, Basil Rathbone in The Court Jester .)
Jeremy Irons in Eragon?