The actor looks like a choir-boy. Why hire him for the role? Also, Scorpio is the dumbest cartoonish name ever.
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Credit to Andrew Robinson for creating such a convincing psychopathic villain under Don Siegal's direction. It is undoubtedly his best known role and I'm a little surprised he didn't continue on landing more high profile roles.
shareI don't agree at all that he was right for the role.
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That's OK, that's your opinion.
To go back to your original complaints regarding Scorpio, Don Siegal hired Andrew Robinson because of his looks and on Clint Eastwood's recommendation.
He wanted some one who had very much the opposite sort of looks to your typical cinematic heavy...to highlight his psychopathic nature.
They used the name Scorpio, because it referred to the Zodiac killer, who haunted the same areas from the late 60's to the mid 70's.
If you haven't seen the David Fincher movie of the same name, I can thoroughly recommend it.
Thanks. =)
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He's convincing because he is not the atypical steely eyed killer.
He could be the dorky guy next door,
who delivers your newspaper in the morning on his moped.
The guy everybody is stunned to discover he buries women alive.
" I USED TO KNOW HIM, HE SEEMS LIKE A REGULAR GUY."
Then you find out he is a psychotic whackjob.
Andrew Robinson embodied Scorpio and made him one of the
greatest film villains ever.
" DO WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER???"
Great movie.
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...and for a real life "don't judge a book by its cover" psycopath, consider Ted Bundy. Clean cut, smiling, well-mannered young man, except for the kidnapping/raping/killing/cutting into pieces part.
share:...and for a real life "don't judge a book by its cover" psycopath, consider Ted Bundy. Clean cut, smiling, well-mannered young man, except for the kidnapping/raping/killing/cutting into pieces part."
Yeah, there was that part of his persona.
Just out of curiosity, OP, who do you think should have played Scorpio?
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That scream he makes when Callahan sticks him with the switchblade is downright scary. Then there is the crazy laugh at the end when he goes for the gun and gets blown off the dock with the .44. Those two scenes makes me think he's a convincing nutjob villain.
shareGreat acting by Andrew Robinson. This is why the first movie is easily the best of the series, for me.
Calling disagreement hate is childish.
Yeah, I must say, I think Robinson did a fantastic job. The part where he clobbers the liquor store owner, who had killed a couple robbers, is extremely well done by him (owner points gun at Scorpio: "Please....I scare easily". "You sure you want the rest of it?" "EVERY PENNY, YOU BLACK SONOF ABITCH!" ..."This one's on the house"). I totally believe this guy is a complete psycho...
Not to mention he was fantastic in Charley Varrick as well...
"It is hard to be a man of peace. It would be so pleasant to kill Mr. Weddle." - Massai, 'Apache'
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Scorpio is the dumbest cartoonish name ever.
OK, didn't know that. Thanks for enlightening me.
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The actor was great, I just thought the character sucked.
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The fact that he looks like a choir-boy makes him even more dangerous, because looks can be so deceiving. Also, Scorpio was probably his horoscope, hence the name Scorpio.
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