For a while I had "Infidel defilers...they shall all drown in lakes of blood." as my ringtone.
"What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"
Such an accomplished and memorable individual. RIP.
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#42As a South African, Cry The Beloved Country resonates deeply with me. Thank you, sir, for all that you gave.
Read the book by Alan Paton, and you may go down a rabbithole.
They did the story justice with that movie.
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#43Cry The Beloved Country, based on the book by beloved South African writer Alan Paton.
They did justice to the book. He was spectacular in his portrayal.
As a South African it resonates deeply with me and is more relevant now, than ever before.
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#44For me he will always be Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian. You need to watch that movie if you haven't already.
its my favorite movie of all time. the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission. its got comedy, drama, love, hate, lust, fear, revenge, and all the other feelings a movie can envoke. hey...black lotus, stygian, the best...this better not be haga...I would sell Haga to a slayer such as you?
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#45I have a vague memory of him reading books on some PBS show in the 80s. Am I misremembering this? I can’t find it in his filmography, though it may have been Fairytale Theater.
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#46He's done a lot of great work. Selfishly, one of my favorites is narrating the University of Michigan (his alma mater) football hype videos and stadium announcements. Always felt unique and fun.
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#47Such an iconic voice. And the fact he got to put voice to so many iconic lines that are hard to imagine coming from anyone else. His speech in Field of Dreams, obviously Vader's "I am your father". Basically all of his lines as Mufasa in Lion King. I just can't think of any voice from the newer generations of actors/VAs that stands up to what he brought. And while his voice was incredible, he clearly mastered it and…
I agree completely. JEJ is an impossible act to follow. My opinion is that Dennis Haybert has surely 'risen to the occasion' quite well at the very least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Haysbert
I'm not just talking still alive, I mean the younger generation. Like Morgan Freeman is also an iconic all-time voice. Is there even any actor in their 40s let alone 30s or 20s who have such an iconic voice dropping such powerful monologues?
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#48Remember past kings live in the stars...
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#49I have a vague memory of him reading books on some PBS show in the 80s. Am I misremembering this? I can’t find it in his filmography, though it may have been Fairytale Theater.
The fourth episode in the premiere season (1983) of PBS's Reading Rainbow featured a story narrated by James Earl Jones.
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QN9npF9A3M
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#50I 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…
The first thing that comes up for me when I hear his name (after Star Wars) is Field of Dreams. He made me laugh out loud more than once in that, my favorite baseball movie.