Posts Tagged ‘actor’
David Bowie – Cracked Actor (Serious Moonlight)
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Film and Music Study – Deliverance Dueling Banjos Scene
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
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Art, music, creativity, and team projects can often break down common barriers between social classes and common politics. I think this scene demonstrates how people from different cultures can find a common ground. It is my hope that the east and the west can someday sit down and enjoy the music.
Dueling Banjos is a song written by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell. The melody is a very popular american past time and is introduced to a majority of new guitar players and musicians.
The tune is easily hummed and recognizable.
Billy Redden (born 1956 in Rabun County, Georgia) is an American actor best known for his role as Lonnie—the “banjo kid”—in the 1972 movie Deliverance.
Redden, then sixteen, earned his role in Deliverance during a casting call at Clayton Elementary School in Clayton, Georgia. To add authenticity and humor to the film, the filmmakers found Redden to fit the look of the inbred and mentally retarded banjo boy called for by the book, although Redden himself is neither. The scene depicts Redden playing the instrumental Dueling Banjos opposite actor Ronny Cox on guitar. Because Redden could not really play the banjo, another young banjo player knelt behind him and reached around his chest to reach the banjo, with Redden wearing a specially made shirt that made the man’s arms appear to be his own. Additionally, the shot was filmed from angles that made it impossible to see the musician behind Redden on the porch. At the end of the scene, the script called for Redden to harden his expression towards Drew Ballinger, Cox’s character; however, Redden was unable to fake dislike for Cox. To solve the problem they got Ned Beatty (whom Redden truly disliked) to step towards Redden at the close of the shot. As Beatty approached, Redden hardened his expression and looked away exactly as intended.[citation needed]
Jon Voight claimed Redden “was a boy who had a genetic imbalance — a product of his mother and his brother, I think. He was quite amazing, a very talkative fellow.”[1]
Redden also appeared in Tim Burton’s 2003 film Big Fish. Burton was intent on getting Redden, who hadn’t appeared in a film since Deliverance, to play the role of a banjo-playing welcomer in the utopian town of Spectre. Burton eventually found him in Clayton, Georgia, where Redden works as a cook, dishwasher and part-owner of the Cookie Jar Café.
In 2004, Redden made a guest appearance on Blue Collar TV playing an inbred car repairman named Ray in a “Redneck Dictionary” skit, for the word “raisin bread” (Ray’s-Inbred). When he was shown, he was playing a banjo.
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Bradley Whitford Emmy Win Supporting Actor for The West Wing
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
By popular demand, I have uploaded Bradley Whitford’s 2001 Emmy Awards Nomination and win for his role in The West Wing as Josh Lyman. He gave such a thoughtful and thankful speech.
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Men In Film
Monday, July 27th, 2009
by Philip Scott Johnson
Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, William Holden, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Jack Lemmon, Sean Connery, Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, Peter O’Toole, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Warren Beatty, Dennis Hopper, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Harrison Ford, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Christopher Walken, Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, John Travolta, Antonio Banderas, Tim Robbins, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, George Clooney
Music: Bach’s Allemande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009 performed by Antonio Meneses
Higher Resolution:
http://www.vimeo.com/1456206
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Mickey Rourke wins Best Actor BAFTA – The British Academy Film Awards 2009 – BBC One
Saturday, July 25th, 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone
Mickey Rourke is named best actor for playing Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson in The Wrestler.
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Actor Jonah Hill Freaks Out durring interview
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Actor Jonah Hill Freaks Out during a hostile interview while promoting the movie Superbad.
Duration : 0:3:23
Forest Whitaker winning Best Actor
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Reese Witherspoon presenting the Best Actor Oscar® to Forest Whitaker for his performance in “The Last King of Scotland” -the 79th Annual Academy Awards® in 2007.
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St Vincent Rehearsal: “An Actor Out Of Work”
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
St Vincent rehearses “An Actor Out of Work” at SXSW 2009.
Read More: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2009/03/st_vincent_rehearses_new_song.html
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MLTR – the Actor
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
performing at the 25th Anniversary of Skanderborg Festival Denmark
8th Aug 2004
Duration : 0:5:24
One of my favorites.
David Bowie – Cracked Actor from the Serious Moonlight DVD)