DENNIS HOPPER (1936 - 2010) - The Mienfoks Tribute

Easy Rider - Billy

This was the film that embodied the spirit of the 60's or at least it was the film that pop culture thought embodied the spirit of the 60's. What Easy Rider really was was the embodiment of the freedom that America always advertizes but rarely delivers. This film more than any other conveyed why most people prefer NOT to be free. This was Dennis Hopper's Citizen Kane, the work that both defined and destroyed him. although Hopper unlike Orsen Wells was able to make his peace with hollywood. Hopper like Wells started out as a golden boy starring along with James Dean at the cutting edge of the method acting world, but after Dean's death only Hopper, Jack Nicholson(rarely considered a methodman because he is so good at it),Deniro, Pacino, Duvall and Walken seemed to continue true method acting in the post Brando world...


"What the hell is wrong with freedom? That's what it's all about"



Apocalypse Now - The PhotoJournalist

The truth was Hopper was as drug crazed as his character during the shooting of Francis Ford Coppola's Viet Namese  Magnus Opus.

"Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm... no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas..."



Blue Velvet - Frank Booth

I was never a huge David Lynch fan, but Hopper took the role of Frank Booth, the kidnapping, torturing, nitrous oxide inhaling psychpath to unbelieveable levels of awesome weirdness. Here are some memorable quotes:

"Don't be a good neighbor anymore to her. I'll have to send you a love letter! Straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You receive a love letter from me, and you're fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I'll send you straight to hell, fucker!... In dreams... I walk with you. In dreams... I talk to you. In dreams, you're mine... all the time. Forever"

"Hey, neighbor! You shit-for-brains, man! You forgot I have a police radio! One well-dressed fuckin' man knows where your fuckin' cute little butt's hidin'! Stupid fuck! Fuck with me, man! Here I come, ready or not! You fuck! I can hear your fuckin' radio, you stupid shit! You got about one fuckin' second to live, buddy! You're one sorry piece of shit, mister. Hey, pretty, pretty! What the fuck? Where are you? Where are you?"






True Romance - Clifford Worley

This scene is a masterpiece on so many levels: the writing is seminal Tarrentino, the direction from Tony Scott stiches together many qualities of the characters as the give and take between Hopper and Walken explodes into laughter and terror,...but for me the incredulous look on Walken's characters face is the money

"...if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant"



Shaking The Cage - Awesome documentary about the making of Easy Rider











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FROM THE DEFAMER
Though Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper may have dropped LSD together and smoked a reported 155 joints in a row for just one Easy Rider scene, pictures of the legends puffing on cigars still pop up on the internets to this day. Along with Keith Richards, who continued to prove his immortality by walking this year's Shine A Light red carpet in NY with an ever-present cigarette, Hollywood's most infamous chimneys have been replaced by even heavier habit-afflicted youngsters. Mary-Kate Olsen is so addicted to her Marlboro Reds that she regularly lights up in gala bathrooms, while Shia LaBeouf recently set off security alarms at the Smithsonian in between shooting scenes for Transformers 2 because the bitch-slapper lit up in the john. And we're all well aware that chain-smoker Sam Ronson appears to have gotten lesbionic BFF Lindsay Lohan hooked — though all the straight edge forces within not-so-straight bestie T.R. Knight still haven't done much to come between Heigl and her American Spirits. Which is actually fine with us — the "throatier" her laugh, the weaker her chances of becoming the next Julia Roberts become!

JACK NICHOLSON - STILL GOT IT AT 70+ ???

At 70 and still a Hollywood player, Nicholson shows no sign of losing his love of flirting with beautiful young women.

With that manic grin and laconic conversation, he doesn't even have to hold his belly in.

Holidaying on the Caribbean island of St Bart's, the actor held court with girls young enough to be his granddaughters.

His youngest daughter, 17-year-old Lorraine Nicholson, sunbathed nearby as her father charmed the fans.

She was accompanying him on holiday ahead of his 71st birthday next month.

Nicholson cooled off by diving into the water and splashing around in the surf before making his rather ungainly exit.

One onlooker said: "He looked really content and chilled out. He seemed to be really enjoying the attention from his two young admirers."

And while the sight of a 70-year-old senior heaving himself out of the surf is rarely the answer to a maiden's prayer, Jack The Lady-Killer had bikini-clad women flocking to be by his side.

The 70-year-old, a father of five, still indulges in a party-loving lifestyle and has a well documented weakness for beautiful women, but the lothario admits his ageing body is slowing him down.

He says: "You're never too old. But I'm not as wild as I used to be.

THE JACK NICHOLSON COOKOO CLOCK ???

If this comes into production it will be the ultimate in cult clocks. Based on that immortal scene from “The Shining”, every hour you’ll be greeted by Jacks head coming through the door uttering “Here’s Johnny”

Designed by Chris Dimino, there’s no signs of licensing or production unfortunately.

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