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You do realize there is zero proof Jensen ever dated Jessica Simpson. There is a single picture of them at a party and it doesn't look like they were together. It looks like someone said "hey let's take a picture" when they just happened to be near each other. I don't believe she ever mentioned his name, she just made a vague comment about a soap actor and cheating. And when asked by an Australian tv show Jensen outright said he'd never dated her.
Also I don't think he really dated LeAnn Rimes, they went out to a few public events for publicity, because she had a short guest stint in Days of Our Lives and her character and his character had a little connection but it was never any kind of deep relationship. For most of the time he was on Days of Our Lives he was a dating a very normal girl named Lisa, they dated until I think around 2001. At some point in between I know he dated a Brazilian girl because he mentioned it at a convention but doesn't seem like it was long term or very serious. The next long term relationship he had was Joanna Krupa, they went out for a couple years and broke up not long after he started Supernatural. He dated that Tania girl for a few months and then he and Danneel got together, though they were already friends and they've been together ever since.
Riley was not Jensen's best friend, Jensen, Danneel and Riley were all in the same "friend group" but I don't think he and Riley were every more than friendly acquaintances, maybe a little bit more just because their friend group was always hanging out but it was a pretty big group. Steve Carlson was in it, Christian Kane was in it, Jason Manns was in it, a bunch of other people were in it whose names I don't even know.
To be quite honest it sounds like he has a perfectly normal track record. He had a few serious relationships between dating around in early to mid 20's in his late 20s he started going out with his wife to be and he's been with her ever since.
Even Captain America did it(seriously in one of the original 1940s comics he went undercover disguised as a woman, with Bucky(who was the Robin to Cap's Batman so to speak in those days, not his older best friend) as his son.
This is the first I've heard of it and it's a funny coincidence. Netflix seemed to recently get an influx of Python stuff so I've been watching some of it over the last few days and just last night I was thinking "I wonder why none of them have been knighted?" And lo and behold I come here and find my favorite Python has been knighted. :) I've really enjoyed his travel work.
Why would they sacrifice themselves for the husband? I mean what makes the husband worthy of living at the end while strangers have sacrificed themselves, he didn't even appreciate his wife riding all the way out(alone) and all the way back with strangers she had to bribe just to save him. He spent the whole time insulting her, badmouthing her to guys he'd just met, blaming her entirely for their misadventure, even though I doubt she held a gun to his head to make him go digging for gold. He refused to accept responsibility for his own actions. Frankly the husband seemed like a total jerk, though in the end I guess even he wasn't, because Cooper's character thought he sacrificed himself because he knew his injuries would hold them all back. His only good deed was that sacrifice, otherwise he seemed to have no redeeming qualities. Whereas Cooper, Hayward and Widmark all did. They all showed growth or at least shreds of common decency.
So Widmark's sacrifice was for Cooper and Hayward - not the husband(who was already dead and would not have deserved said sacrifice had he been alive, assuming he remained the same jerk he'd been since met when he was rescued).
But I don't think the line was an unreasonable reaction at all - gold, believing gold would somehow solve their problems, was exactly what landed them in this mess, all of them and ultimately it was what was underlying Widmark's death. The line wasn't meant to be the "lesson" that Widmark had learned or something uplifting like that, it was meant to be about what caused the trouble in the first in the first place. The line about someone staying to get the job done, that was meant to be about Widmark - but it was a job that wouldn't have to be done if not for greed(no the indians weren't greedy but they wouldn't be fighting if other greedy men weren't after their land)
It wasn't just about the commanding officer and how he treated his son. Cooper's character already had issues with the father even before the son showed up. He felt he was cold and too willing to let his soldiers die without any sort of response. So then the son shows up and the father seems to be cold and detached even with the son. Just confirming Cooper's character viewpoint(to himself) of the commanding officer's character.
The basic idea to come to a sort of middle ground, I think, there was a time and place for the Commanding officer but there were times when he should have let himself be more feeling too, like with his son, and with Cooper it was the opposite, there was a place for the way he believed action should take place but sometimes the commanding officer's type of response would have served better. Admire the old ways and see that there can be room to some change.
I did think the scenes after the capture were particularly good(and in some cases beautifully shot, the shot of the bamboo under the fingernails torture through the reflection of the shiny tabletop, the scenes where Cooper and Tone get thrown into the cell after their respective tortures, etc.
The thing is, I bet Cooper could have done a decent British accent. His parents were English immigrants, he went to public school in England for three years and supposedly even faced a bit of teasing from his peers when he came back to Montana for the accent he picked up.
It most likely wouldn't have been hard for him to "do" an English accent at all, even with just a little bit of practice. He literally grew up around it and actually lived in the country for a while when he was around what we nowadays would call middle school age, he and his brother came back because WWI broke out.
I imagine at some point early in his career someone told him to stick to one thing for his image and he just did it, the studio figured audiences wouldn't accept their stalwart American hero as sounding anything but American, even if he was playing a character who was not American. Which I find kind of a shame because now I kind of wish we could see just how well he could do an English accent. If it was good, as small a thing as it is, maybe he'd be a little more respected as an actor nowadays. I think he's great but I think his talent is often under appreciated.
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