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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,334
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It's funny how PN played an absolute lout in so many of his movies, but it never really stuck to his overall persona. Jeez, he tried to beat and rape Alma in his drunken stupor in this movie, yet overall his charm still wins the day, and he was never typecast as the kind of bully he played in so many of these kinds of films.
It's almost like he was cast badly, but no, he was cast perfectly as the flawed Adonis. We ate it up. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke....
Imagine Chris Pratt playing roles like this? I wonder.... no, I don't. Pratt is a lightweight, Newman is the ultimate heavyweight.
I love Hud, the movie. It wasn't until recently I realized it was part of Larry McMurtry's 'Thalia" trilogy. But of course it is. What else would it be?
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