... He seems to have made a slightly tiresome career out of playing characters who are just a little too full of themselves...
"Women remember, Steve - it's like they've got minds of their own!"
Ah, but that's the genius of Redford! He could have had a great career as a movie star/leading man type. But as good looking as he was, he preferred to play interesting characters with fatal flaws. In "Downhill Racer," it was ego and selfishness. In "Brubaker," it was an unwillingness to compromise with the political system. In "The Candidate," it was selling out for political gain.
That's why Redford is one of the greats!
... It just makes it seem as if he's that way in real-life, too... (Which I'm sure he isn't!)
I'm sorry, I don't speak monkey...
Exactly. That's why Redford was not just good looking, but a very very smart man.
"I'm f'ing busy-or vice versa"-Dorothy Parker
Totally agree, Howlin. Best example: Out of Africa. I've never seen a Redford movie in which I actually liked his character..
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Love United. Hate Glazers.
Sydney Pollack the director himself has said that Redford on the outside looks like the all American golden boy but in the inside there is an edge with flaws.
Its that man again!!
I think I'd rather have him as a director, than in front of the camera...
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
Following the success of 'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid' and 'The Sting' both Redford and Newman made themselves available to George Roy Hill for future projects ('The Great Waldo Pepper', 'Slapshot'). I wonder how this film might have fared with Paul Newman in the roles of Axel or Ezra (not to downput the fine performances of Bo Svenson and Edward Hermann)?
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