who is not only out of his element but out of his shoes. that is a great thing to do in an action movie. i don t know what it is like to throw a chair with explosives down an elevator shaft. but i accidentally trod on glass and it hurt. you watch him and you think i see myself. this person who is flawed, but can overcome it which is i think a narrative we all have about ourselves. if push came to shove, i would show up. alan rickman s performance as hans gruber is one of the key movie performances of the 80s . the idea that the villain could be intellectual, it wasn t a beefy villain who beat up our hero, but was a guy our hero had to out-think. a lot of action stars think it is cool to show no fear. to me that is a stupid person. the courageous person is the one who has fear. and goes through it anyway.
and he decides he and his best friend, played by arsenio hall, are going to america so he can find himself a queen. if you want to find a queen, where do you go? you go to queens, new york. got to be full of queens, right? everybody who s seen coming to america embraced the movie. the movie is funny as hell. i think it s eddie murphy at his best. it feels so lovely to be here. what a beautiful audience. give yourselves a round of applause. everyone is so lovely. the one white person is actually played by eddie murphy. what about rocky marciano? oh, there they go, there they go. every time i start talking about boxing is a white man got to pull rocky marciano out of their ass. who s the star of the picture? this young guy named eddie murphy, i think. oh, christ, i hate him. the kid with the filthy mouth? yeah, he s the one. oh, he s the worst. he can do these voices. he can do the physicalization. it speaks to the magnitude of his talent. is that not acting? is tha
comedy in the 80s , my favorite niche subject is tim burton. yeah! i was never scared by any horror movie ever. because, i always liked them too much. do you know what i mean? things that scared me were going to school or seeing my relatives. i love tim burton. because he is the best thing you can be as a director. he is completely unique. you start noticing the black and white stripes on things and just the vibe. and you feel like oh, really got something here with this guy. we did beetlejuice and his basic idea was that the living people would be scary and the dead people would be banal. i was very lucky. there may be some things. but then, it just goes off. you know. and you start riffing and you
gentlemen, that greed for lack of a better word is good. greed is right. greed works. wall street is a movie about more than just gordon gecko. it is about a father and a son with different world views playing different roles in an ever changing economy. he is using you, he has your in his back pocket but you can t see it. i see a guy who is jealous his son has become more successful than he is. you never had the gut to go out in the world and stake your own claim. it is the connection between wall street and main street. main street is martin sheen. main street are those people who will be affected by the decisions made by wall street. oliver stone is a guy saying the purpose of film, the