Christopher Walken appreciation thread

[AVID]

great dancer, actor, comic, and creepy to boot!

[MADem]

1. The Continental!!!!! Whadda guy! n/t

[ixion]

2. Thank you, Mr. Walken

for giving so many spectacular performances over the years.

:applause: :woohoo: :yourock: :woohoo: :applause:

[trotsky]

26. Ditto that.

He's single-handedly changed many films from being merely good to outstanding.

[Nomad559]

3. Weapons of choice

Music Video

http://www.astralwerks.com/fbs/woc

:)

[movie_girl99]

19. i have that as my ring tone n/t

[kedrys]

22. Thanks for the link!!

I hadn't seen that video since it came out!

In these parts, we always refer to him as The Ineffably Spooky Christopher Walken. :)

[Maddy McCall]

4. Did he die?

:shrug:

[AVID]

5. no nt

[In_The_Wind]

6. *scary* and I mean that in the nicest of ways

[Phentex]

9. I have always found him totally scary....

haunting.....(shiver)

[In_The_Wind]

21. ... but that's what draws me closer

like a moth to the light

closer ~ but still safe

[Spacemom]

7. Thanks for posting this

You can never have too much Walken. :D

[Jara sang]

8. "Brainstorm" was the movie that turned me on to him.

Awesome flick, Natlie Woods last.

[bridgit]

10. very much so...

few inhabit a line as does: christopher walken imo as well :thumbsup:

[MrScorpio]

11. The Dead Zone!

Excellent!

[AmyDeLune]

23. The Dead Zone!!!

And let's not forget the SNL riff on it, "The Inconsequential Psychic"

Touches hand of co-worker *zap* "You going to get a cup of coffee. It's going to be too hot. You take a sip. You burn your tongue!"

[luvLLB]

12. we need more cowbell

[LynneSin]

13. here you go

:D


http://geekhost.info/~gabriela/cowbell.htm

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. Do you know who I am, Mr. Worley?

"I'm the antichrist. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven, you've never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man that killed you."
True Romance. One of the greatest character introductions ever.

[MuseRider]

15. True Romance n/t

[beam me up scottie]

16. Fell in love with him years ago.

Loved his entry into the horror genre in "The Prophecy".
Wicked scene where he kisses his fingers and points to a van as he's walking away, and it blows up.

[peekaloo]

17. Best part of 'Pulp Fiction' for me.

"Up his asssssssss".

[Terran]

18. I've always really liked him as Whitley Streiber

in "Communion". An awesome film. But I've liked everything he's ever done, including the SNL stuff!

[bugslsu9]

20. Love the Cowbell

I need more cowbell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[graywarrior]

24. He was just as great in The Funeral with Benecio

[Samurai_Writer]

25. One of my favorites!

He always plays such wierd, dark characters. Loved him in Pulp Fiction.

"This watch was on your Daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

*DING*

[OldLeftieLawyer]

27. The most amazing monologue in the history of American cinema

That's my opinion.

Walken is so good, he's been consistently undervalued, I think, by the industry. I'll watch lousy movies just because he's in them.

He's the best, really.

Thanks for the video link - I'd been looking for that.

[ironflange]

28. Pennies From Heaven

I nearly peed myself when he jumped on the piano and did that terrific tap-dance number. I learned later that he had started out as a song-and-dance man. He's an amazingly talented guy.

[hippiechick]

29. The man is amazing ...

And HippieKid flipped out when she made the connection between 'Dead Zone' ... 'The Headless Horseman' ... and Fatboy Slim's 'Weapon of Choice' video.