Modern successor
Bogie always had that detached too-cool-for-school attitude that I really only see today in Harrison Ford.
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I can see that, if Bogie was an action star.
shareClint Eastwood has spent his career trying to be the new Bogarty antihero, but he's never made it work the way Bogart did.
Bogart made the antihero roles shine because he gave type sense of having a heart of gold under his hard exterior, but Eastwood gave the sense of a heart of ice under his hard exterior. It's not the same.
He has had no successor, and probably never will. The same can be said of most of the stars of the 1930s and 1940s.
shareHe has had no successor and probably never will. The same can be said of most of the stars of the 1930s and 1940s
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I agree with that across the board. While the Golden era stars were templates of sorts for modern stars...modern stars were/are modern.
Nicholson was called the new Cagney after The Last Detail and the New Bogart after Chinatown. But he was just using their templates to be...Nicholson
However both Bogart and Nicholson shared
a never to be repeated trait. They appeared in more classics than any of their peers.
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BOGART: The Petrified Forest High Sierra The Maltese Falcon Casablanca The Big Sleep Key Largo Treasure of Sierra Madre The African Queen In a Lonely Place The Caine Mutiny Beat the Devil The Barefoot Contessa The Desperate Hours The Harder they Fall CONT
shareNICHOLSON: The Raven Easy Rider Five Easy Pieces Carnal Knowledge The King Of Marvin Gardens The Last Detail Chinatown The Passenger Cuckoos Nest The Missouri Breaks The Last Tycoon CONT
shareThe Shining Reds The Border Terms of Endearment Prizzis Honor The Witches of Eastwick Ironweed Batman A Few Good Men Blood and Wine Mars Attacks As Good As it Gets About Schmidt The Departed The Bucket List
shareLet Ryan Reynolds try to beat Bogart or Nicholson. Good enough movies arent being made that often anymore...
shareNot enough great directors to make the truly great movies that make the truly great stars. Nicholson's list of accomplishments is partly his screen presence and partly the directors he worked with: Roger Corman, Mike Nichols, Hal Ashby, Roman Polanski, Michelangelo Antonioni, Milos Forman, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, George Miller, Tim Burton, and Martin Scorsese to name the most prominent ones.
I found The Passenger to be a rather interesting film, and I'm not normally a huge Antioni fan.