Has he made anything aelse worth seeing. Judging from this movie he has a lot of talent, but the only other stuff he's done doesn't look so good, which is a shame, because this is brilliant.
It's a good thing I don't like spinach. Because I can't stand the stuff. And otherwise I'd eat it.
Well, it took him 14 years before he made another film after this, and that was the Bruce Willis turkey "Color of Night". Since then, he hasn't made one single film. The few movies he made before "The Stunt Man" isn't anything special, so I would call him a one hit wonder.
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I loved "Color of Night". It had a lot of the hollywood razzle dazzle Rush employed so brilliantly in "The Stunt Man" & wasn't that Eli's helecopter buzzing around in one scene?
He did a couple biker films in the late '60s--incl. 'Hells Angels on Wheels' with Adam Roarke and Jack Nicholson--and the classic '70s buddy action/comedy 'Freebie and the Bean'...
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I liked "Color of Night" also! I remembered when it first came out, it got HORRIBLE reviews, so I didn't go see it. I rented it a few years later, not expecting much, and found myself thoroughly enjoying it.
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Dude is 82 and has not made a film in almost 20 years.
Safe to say that he is in retirement.
Well, I've only seen this and 'Color of Night' but I found them equally enjoyable. Of course, 'The Stunt Man' is a weird, unexpected, surprising good movie and 'Color of Night' is a weird, unexpected, surprising bad movie...but it's a bad movie unlike any I can remember seeing, I can say that much, and for an unintentional (?) laugh riot you could do much worse. It's about as odd as 'The Stunt Man,' but nothing in it works at all, and the result is totally hilarious.
shareIt´s strange that this guy never had much of a career because The Stunt Man is actually better directed than it is scripted - Rush really had a sure as well as sensitive hand filming it and putting it all together while the problems the film has, appear to be script related (tiresomely dragging Vietnam into it all without much point other than to score easy points off the supposed "depth" it brings, for one thing... and the film also ends on kind of a feeble note, without getting much anywhere of interest).
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Not strange at all. Hollywood is full of these unrealized talents. Get a few bad reviews, screw up one time, and the funding dries up. It's sad.
I agree that The Stuntman and Freebie were great movies. Despite the fact that Stuntman was released in 1980, it is a 70s movie.
This wasn't like George Miller waking up, making a hit and then going with it. I think it was a 60's exploitation biker film director making a movie about how movies are made and it was his Apocalypse Now and he might have wanted to make this before basically going another way. If you look for good films after this great film you'll find none, but you WILL find some good "bad" movies that are shot beautifully despite being camp cult classics etc. All his stuff is filmed very well, and the early, early Rush is, in its way, classic. I could watch Hells Angels on Wheels or Psych-Out a million times myself. This movie's special because the directing is actually outdated but in a great way: like if a new band gets a 60's sound and brings it all back. Anyhow... go back for Rush and enjoy instead of looking ahead. It is quite a shame he did nothing as this movie was very critically acclaimed but... God knows... I'll ask Gary Kent, who was Richards stuntman for many old pictures, and see if he knows...
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Just found out what happened to Richard Rush.
His next dream project was another semi comedy about Vietnam: Air America. We all know it as a Mel Gibson movie with the new quite famous Robert Downey Jr., but for Rush it was a labor of love that was taken from him and that took much of the 80's to develop.
Also note, the guy does have money... Lives in Bel Air... might have some reason not to HAVE TO keep busy, but that's his business...
Anyhow... After Air America was taken, he did Color Of Night, and it thudded so hard he basically quit.
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