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"What do we do now?"

(Goodbye to Robert Redford, 1936-2025.)

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donald ने कहा…: He’s always Jeremiah Johnson to me.; 16/9/25, 7:39 am
rehajm ने कहा…: Sorry he’s gone. I appreciated Newman but never got Redford’s acting or his personal anything…politics. I guess because he always delivers the line the exact same way. He was pretty and I guess that’s somewhere between enough and everything…; 16/9/25, 7:48 am
rhhardin ने कहा…: I remember him only in 3 days of the condor. I don't buy the right movies apparently.; 16/9/25, 7:52 am
Stan Smith ने कहा…: "In a way, he was like the country he lived in. Everything came too easily to him. But at least he knew it. About once a month, he worried that he was a fraud ..."

The one character that he perfectly personified...; 16/9/25, 7:53 am
Enigma ने कहा…: R.I.P. Robert Redford. I thought of that scene every day during the Biden-Harris Administration.; 16/9/25, 7:55 am
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: Sorry to see him go, but almost 90. That's a good long life. IRC, Redford loved the outdoors and took care of himself.

Last movie I saw of his was "All is lost" which was pretty good. Probably favorite was "the natural" or "the sting". Great Waldo Pepper has a fine Redford performance and a fine story but Goldman fucked up the screenplay and ruined the movie.; 16/9/25, 7:56 am
Jamie ने कहा…: I actually haven't seen a lot of his movies. But I did see All Is Lost, and had nightmares for days.

It's a unique film. Literally one line of dialog. This whole movie and the crash scene from Cast Away really cement my ill feelings about the ocean.; 16/9/25, 7:56 am
RideSpaceMountain ने कहा…: His role in Jeremiah Johnson had a significant impact on my young life. His role in Out Of Africa was equally influential for me. One of the greatest American actors of all time.

Travel well Robert.; 16/9/25, 7:56 am
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: Yeah, that's right. 3 days of Condor is pretty good too. The story is absurd but its well acted and is engaging. You just have to suspend disbelief.; 16/9/25, 7:57 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: No escaping Utah this month.; 16/9/25, 7:57 am
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: Some one told me Redford was 5-10. I thought he was 6-2. But that's what happens when your co-star is Dustin Hoffmann.; 16/9/25, 7:59 am
rehajm ने कहा…: Out of Africa was good- didn’t age well but still…; 16/9/25, 8:01 am
Aggie ने कहा…: He was too pretty, but his acting wasn't near as good as other stars. Jeremiah Johnson was his best I thought, but 3 Days of the Condor was good action and The Natural was, well, a baseball hero movie so it gets automatic endorsement already. The Sting was fun but Newman out-acted him by a mile. I didn't think much of Butch Cassidy, too much New Hollywood.; 16/9/25, 8:10 am
john mosby ने कहा…: Trump 45 didn't really know what to do now. Trump 47 does. CC, JSM; 16/9/25, 8:16 am
William ने कहा…: He was a landmark figure. It was not by accident that he was in so many memorable movies. Okay, he wasn't such a great actor, but he was great at being Robert Redford. He was a movie star like John Wayne or Clark Gable. That's a quantum leap over acting.......He was reliably liberal in all his opinions, but so what.; 16/9/25, 8:29 am
Political Junkie ने कहा…: Never saw The Candidate. Need to watch.; 16/9/25, 8:31 am
Iman ने कहा…: I enjoyed most of his work. We have a photograph of my late mother (a big fan) and Redford standing together up at the Sundance ski resort… mom with a big smile and Redford with a “just kill me now” look on his puss.

A Family Favorite.; 16/9/25, 8:35 am
Dude1394 ने कहा…: 90 years old. He had special mightiness. Rest in peace.; 16/9/25, 8:39 am
Michael ने कहा…: He was a good actor, not great, but good. And he was in a lot of good movies, although none stand out as a classic. Interesting career, but I suspect in 50 years few will know his name.; 16/9/25, 8:42 am
gspencer ने कहा…: Robert Redford?

Meh. Basically a run-of-the-mill lefty.; 16/9/25, 8:42 am
Tina Trent ने कहा…: Asshole helped domestic terrorist killers go underground in the Seventies. Good riddance.; 16/9/25, 8:47 am
J Melcher ने कहा…: What's the movie where he plays a lawyer defending, I think, Daryl Hannah? In opening remarks he tells the jury that everybody, including himself, thinks she's guilty. BUT, all that has to be set aside to make the prosecution prove it. Really interesting performance there.; 16/9/25, 8:51 am
wildswan ने कहा…: I always liked Robert Redford but I felt sorry for him because he was so often cast as a naive guy just finding out about some corrupt situation and overwhelmed by his knowledge. Starting with Three Days of the Condor, he perfected a look for that role - wide-eyed with his mouth hanging slightly open. Matt Damon carried it on in The Bourne Identity. It's everywhere now and it is true to life as a visual of a time of transition in someone's life. But the only thing is that in the movies so often the transition never ends. The eyes don't narrow and the jaw snap shut and Dirty Harry doesn't emerge.

So often, the bewildered innocent stays bewildered and innocent even when he figures out what is going on or, rather, he doesn't become someone who now knows how to act in the situation. He just dumps his acquired knowledge that such situations exist and remains someone who is unaware of the mean streets of his own society. He "had the experience but missed the meaning." Three days of the Condor conspiracy didn't mark that handsome, appealing face and, as a movie-goer, I was always just as glad but as a person I sometimes wondered what that kind of movie meant.; 16/9/25, 8:55 am
Peachy ने कहा…: hollywood. do not care.; 16/9/25, 9:08 am
Oso Negro ने कहा…: @ Stan Smith - not everything came easily to him. His father was high up in Chevron and Bob got a job at the El Segundo refinery. He was no good and was fired. But the people who fired him were worried about offending his old man and made a call to someone they knew in Hollywood. Off he went; 16/9/25, 9:08 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: “Asshole helped domestic terrorist killers go underground in the Seventies. Good riddance.”
What evidence do you have that Asshole helped terrorists in the 70s?; 16/9/25, 9:09 am
Howard ने कहा…: Always thought he was perfectly cast in the Twilight Zone. My teenage grandsons loved Jeremiah Johnson. A solid actor who was not afraid to be surrounded by great actors. All the President's Men is the best example. As a director, A River Runs Through it was a great period piece of the Mountain West. Without the Sundance Film Festival, we might not have ever seen films like Reservoir Dogs.; 16/9/25, 9:14 am
s'opihjerdt ने कहा…: I prefer to think of him charging out of a Bolivian hut into a hail of bullets.; 16/9/25, 9:42 am
RideSpaceMountain ने कहा…: rehajm said, "Out of Africa was good- didn’t age well but still"

If you're talking about changes to cultural context, maybe. But it's a unique love story set against a backdrop of Europe's pinnacle in colonial dominance (as in it was all downhill from there...).

I especially enjoyed the quote "I can mate for life like the animals do...one day at time." Try finding that in another romance flick.; 16/9/25, 9:43 am
Dave Begley ने कहा…: "The Natural" and "Out of Africa" are two of my favs. Classic love stories with great female leads.; 16/9/25, 9:53 am
mikeski ने कहा…: Went to Van Nuys High School with my mom. She told me he always wore a black leather jacket and did not have great skin as a teen.

Some one told me Redford was 5-10. I thought he was 6-2.

He walked past me out of a restaurant in Park City in...1995? I'm 5'10" and he was shorter than me. And wearing a beret. His dinner companion that evening was Dianne Wiest.

I think maybe Downhill Racer is my favorite of his performances.; 16/9/25, 10:00 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: The first time I saw Robert Redford it was in Butch Cassidy, double billed with the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. For a long time those were my favorite 2 movies. Good actor. Good guy. RIP; 16/9/25, 10:00 am
Yancey Ward ने कहा…: While I completely disagreed with his politics, I pretty much liked/loved almost every film he did. He chose roles wisely.; 16/9/25, 10:02 am
n.n ने कहा…: The Great Gatsby; 16/9/25, 10:03 am
Yancey Ward ने कहा…: "What's the movie where he plays a lawyer defending, I think, Daryl Hannah?

Legal Eagles; 16/9/25, 10:09 am
Peachy ने कहा…: I find strange that we are culturally forced to give a rat's butt about actors.

My friend's really great doctor passed away a few weeks ago.
That matters to me.; 16/9/25, 10:11 am
Yancey Ward ने कहा…: The last thing I saw him in was a cameo in Dark Winds earlier this year. I didn't recognize him at first and I thought, at the time, that he didn't look well.; 16/9/25, 10:11 am
Anthony ने कहा…: Howard said...
Always thought he was perfectly cast in the Twilight Zone.

I think that's my favorite of his roles. Wonderful little story.

Liked his other stuff, but my fave will probably (apart from Twilight Zone) be Alexander Pierce in the Marvel movies. I think it's kind of funny that of all the great movies he's been in, the only character he agreed to play twice was in superhero movies.; 16/9/25, 10:13 am
Joe Bar ने कहा…: My favorite of his is "Little Fauss and Big Halsy." I heard he hated that movie, because it made him look like an Ahole.; 16/9/25, 10:16 am
G. Poulin ने कहा…: When I was a teen, my lefty friend dragged me to every left-wing propaganda film out there. The Way We Were was especially painful. Miss my friend; don't miss the cultural garbage she surrounded herself with.; 16/9/25, 10:17 am
Narr ने कहा…: A "That guy's still alive?" moment for me.

I haven't seen most of the movies already mentioned, and have forgotten the rest.

Meh.; 16/9/25, 10:32 am
Megthered ने कहा…: Out of Africa, Butch and Sundance, The Sting are three of my favorite movies of all time. My husbands is The Natural, which makes me cry every damn time he watches it.; 16/9/25, 10:36 am
NeggNogg ने कहा…: I think one of the under-appreciated qualities Redford had was how he kept his family/kids out of the news. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of his first wife or any of the kids.; 16/9/25, 10:36 am
Enlighten-NewJersey ने कहा…: The Sting and Brubaker.; 16/9/25, 10:38 am
narciso ने कहा…: where he was a good supervillain, Condor was a good look at the Deep State, Sneakers had an interesting take on the NSA; 16/9/25, 10:40 am
PM ने कहा…: As watchable as they get. Solid citizen.; 16/9/25, 10:44 am
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: "He walked past me out of a restaurant in Park City in...1995? I'm 5'10" and he was shorter than me. And wearing a beret. His dinner companion that evening was Dianne Wiest."

Well, if he was 5-9 or 5-8 that's even funnier. He's so much taller than Dustin Hoffmann in "All in the Presidents Men" they always shoot them sitting down or with Hoffman ahead or behind. Never side by side. Redford looks much taller then Newman in Butch Cassidy, so Newman must have been a shrimp too.; 16/9/25, 10:44 am
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: Redford should have played a villian in one of his movies. But I suppose he didn't want to spoil his image.; 16/9/25, 10:46 am
narciso ने कहा…: the Randy Newman score is the one that sells the Natural, he didn't look anything near 46 then, he coasted on Havana, (which allowed him to tout his Castro philia); 16/9/25, 10:48 am
narciso ने कहा…: he did in the Winter Soldier, as the Deep State mandarin,; 16/9/25, 10:49 am
Joe Bar ने कहा…: RCOCEAN II said...
"Redford should have played a villian in one of his movies. But I suppose he didn't want to spoil his image."

Hence, his hatred for "Little Fauss and Big Halsy."; 16/9/25, 10:51 am
narciso ने कहा…: yes he made woodward look much younger, even though he was older by six years,; 16/9/25, 10:52 am
narciso ने कहा…: as Cliff Robertson, who ended up playing some ridiculous hammy villains, as in Malone and Escape from LA, he filled the Condor role in Winter Soldier,; 16/9/25, 10:55 am
Sweetie ने कहा…: Pretty boy who epitomized white privilege. Did I say that right, CNN?; 16/9/25, 11:30 am
mccullough ने कहा…: “I can’t swim!”; 16/9/25, 11:35 am
Temujin ने कहा…: He was the essence of a Hollywood star. He was handsome, charming, smarter than most of them, and durable. He made so many movies, as an actor and a director (and probably a producer as well).
I never thought he was a great actor, but he was always good, solid. His character in his early movies (like Barefoot in the Park) was the same character he'd show up as in later movies. He made some great movies, and more than one dump. But he was always working, always churning out more.
A memorable role in a movie with a great script in "The Natural". And he directed one of my all time favorites, "Ordinary People". He and my favorite, Paul Newman, were a particularly good pairing.

When it comes to this passing generation, I guess I don't hold their politics against them as much as I do the current generation, which mostly makes shitty movies and then castigates us for not thinking correctly.; 16/9/25, 12:13 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: I’d forgotten Ordinary People. He got a great performance out of Mary Tyler Moore. Although everyone was excellent in that movie.; 16/9/25, 12:22 pm
Lazarus ने कहा…: He was the model of the attractive, well-groomed and well-spoken person who comes around, tells people what they want to hear, and then makes everything go to hell.; 16/9/25, 12:27 pm
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: Redford was a pretty good director. Produced some good films too. Main problem as an actor - he didn't do "dark and gritty" very well. Wasn't much of a "tough guy". Not like his ol' Pal Clint Eastwood.

Not as many romantic or rom-com roles as you'd expect.; 16/9/25, 12:40 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Inside Daisy Clover, This Property Condemned and The Horse Whisperer. The first 2 with Natalie Wood. They would show the first 2 late at night. Very enjoyable.; 16/9/25, 12:47 pm
Anthony ने कहा…: I also have a fondness for A River Runs Through It, although I can never decide if that was a Guy Movie or a Chick Movie pretending to be a Guy Movie.; 16/9/25, 12:47 pm
victoria ने कहा…: He was the kind of guy that Donny T hates, liberal, a conservationist and interested in people, not click bate. the movies he did with Newman wer exceptional, but my favorite is Inside Daisy Clover, where he plays a total bad guy. Met him in the '70's, when i worked at Universal Studios. lovely man.; 16/9/25, 12:58 pm
victoria ने कहा…: Add peter Boyle and Melvyn Douglas, Perfection; 16/9/25, 1:03 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Why bring Trump into the conversation? You folks really do have the guy living rent free in your heads.; 16/9/25, 1:19 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Redford was also in a Perry Mason episode: The Treacherous Toupee. That was a good one.; 16/9/25, 1:24 pm
Jay Vogt ने कहा…: William said:
"He was a landmark figure . . . . but so what."

Yep.; 16/9/25, 1:54 pm
Aggie ने कहा…: Twilight Zone episode from 1959: "Nothing in the Dark" with Robert Redford. R.I.P.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x80eim1; 16/9/25, 2:11 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Let me just add: Victoria says “ He was the kind of guy that Donny T hates”
This is my biggest beef with lefties. They never miss a chance to divide us. Can’t we talk about anything where we experience what we have in common rather then insert some little note to make sure we understand that we are not united in anything. We must always remember that we are divided.; 16/9/25, 2:15 pm
Jim at ने कहा…: I remember when Robert Redford showed up at WSU my freshman year. Though he was an hour late, Redford (and several professors and students) hopped onto a bus for a tour on the Palouse.

The bus caught fire and everybody had to escape as the driver was yelling it was going to blow up.

Redford got into one of the support cars following the bus, high-tailed it to a nearby farm, came back with two buckets of water and put out the fire.; 16/9/25, 3:06 pm
Jim at ने कहा…: He was the kind of guy that Donny T hates...

In case you ever wonder why true derangement looks like. A subject that has absolutely nothing do to with Donald Trump, and this twit brings up? Donald Trump.; 16/9/25, 3:11 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: So here’s a movie I never heard of:
Situation Hopeless but not Serious (1965) available for rent on Amazon
Alec Guinness, Mike Connors (Manix) and Redford. Alec Guiness is their jailer even though WW2 is over, comedy; 16/9/25, 4:06 pm
rehajm ने कहा…: If you're talking about changes to cultural context, maybe. But it's a unique love story set against a backdrop of Europe's pinnacle in colonial dominance (as in it was all downhill from there...).<./i>

..iI thought it was a visual stunner when it first came out with a light romantic plot. A rewatch a couple decades later cinema had far surpassed the visuals so romance lite is all that's left. Redford was himself...I love where the old woman shoots into the ceiling. I want to scream out 'YAHHHH!' like the guy on the second floor she shoots...; 16/9/25, 4:12 pm
rehajm ने कहा…: Beetlejiuse; 16/9/25, 4:12 pm
rehajm ने कहा…: beetlejuice; 16/9/25, 4:12 pm
rehajm ने कहा…: Beetlejuice; 16/9/25, 4:12 pm
rehajm ने कहा…: sigh; 16/9/25, 4:12 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: A man that kids born in the 1970s could grow up admiring both on and off stage. Will never forget him in The Candidate and The Natural.; 16/9/25, 7:14 pm
RCOCEAN II ने कहा…: The Candidate and Downhill Racer were also good. Redford - the actor - almost went into semi-retirement after A bridge too far (almost a cameo role). From 1978-1991, 14 years he only acted in 6 movies.; 16/9/25, 8:17 pm
Readering ने कहा…: Mikeski: what your wife make of this anecdote recycled today: Director Mike Nichols was considering Redford for the lead in The Graduate. But he asked him if he ever struck out with girls, and Redford did not understand the question.; 16/9/25, 8:53 pm
Biff ने कहा…: Anthony said...

"I also have a fondness for A River Runs Through It, although I can never decide if that was a Guy Movie or a Chick Movie pretending to be a Guy Movie."

That, my friends, is how you write a one line movie review. Well done, Anthony.; 16/9/25, 9:02 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: I’m disappointed the Hot Rock is unavailable anywhere not even on DVD. I will have to hunt up my old copy of it.; 16/9/25, 9:10 pm
Known Unknown ने कहा…: All of the commentary from fellow actors (even James Woods) highlight how giving, professional and genuine Redford was on set. That's good.; 17/9/25, 11:52 am

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