Dustin Hoffman appreciation thread

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Just because he's a difficult perfectionist doesn't mean he's a jerk. Not at all.

My sister met him, and said he was completely engaging and personal, made a point of making a connection with you even if he was only going to be talking to you for five or ten minutes.


No, from everything I hear he's a swell guy...and he can be a pain-in-the-ass on the set.



MICHAEL DORSEY
Are you saying that nobody in New York
will work with me?

GEORGE FIELDS
No, no, that's too limited...nobody in
Hollywood wants to work with you either.
I can't even send.you up for a commercial.
You played a tomato for 30 seconds...they
went a half a day over schedule because
you wouldn't sit down!

MICHAEL DORSEY
Yes. It wasn't logical.

GEORGE FIELDS
YOU WERE A TOMATO! A tomato doesn't have
logic! A tomato can't move!

MICHAEL DORSEY
That's what I said! So if he can't move,
how's he gonna sit down, George? I
was a stand-up tomato! A juicy, sexy,
beefsteak tomato! Nobody does
vegetables like me! I did an evening
of vegetables off- Broadway! I did
the best tomato, the best cucumber!
I did an endive salad that knocked
he critics on their ass!


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Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah
some guy happened to spot Hoffman across the street on Sunset Blvd. He ran over and asked him to talk on his cell phone to these DJ's and Hoffman did it. I doubt I'D do that for a stranger who charged across the street at me, and I'm nobody. heh
You are somebody, you are our Sammy.

Great stuff Pikey, I am a big fan of Hoffman, I just watched Tootsie again this week and my husband and laughed so much I have a lot of his movies in my collection.
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Dustin Hoffman is great!

His performance is Meet the Fockers was absolutely hysterical! Rain Man and The Graduate are perhaps two of my favorites movies of his. However, Wag the Dog is up there as well.



Sir Sean Connery's love-child
Midnight Cowboy. His performance as Ratso, yes I'll admit I cried at the end, down to Dustin's performance!!!! How anyone could feel sympathetic towards such a lowlife never mind cry about his demise speaks volumes. Great film, John Voigt is great too, but it's deffinetly Hoffman's film.



my favorite movies

Rain Man
Papillon
Kramer vs Kramer
Runaway jury
Meet the Fockers
Marathon Man
Outbreak
Confidence
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Here to support the villians.......
Its a shame Hoffman never recieves quite as much praise as DeNiro, Pacino and Nicholson. Hoffman is a truly great actor who has produced some groundbreaking performances, (Rain Man will always be my fave).

The difference between DeNiro and Hoffman is that Hoffman still makes good films and can still provide entertainment:

Confidence: A great con movie with a wicked turn from Hoffman
Runaway Jury: A good drama with a showdown between Hoffman and Hackman
Meet the Fockers: Better than DeNiro in this, he was hysterical
Finding Neverland: Supporting role, but really shined when on-screen
I Heart Huckabees: enjoyable performance by him, just didn't enjoy the movie.

Long live Dustin Hoffman.
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My favorite Hoffman performance is finally coming to DVD. Straight Time's R1 release is set for May 22nd. Hot damn.

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Dustin is an incredible actor. My favorites are in no particular order.
Wag The Dog
Hero
Rain Man
Tootsie
Kramer vs Kramer
Marathon Man
All the President's Men
Lenny
Straw Dogs
Midnight Cowboy
The Graduate



I am half agony, half hope.
I haven't seen his most famous roles in Midnight Cowboy, or Lenny, but here are my favorites...

1. Papillon
2. Hook
3. Mad City
4. Kramer vs Kramer
5. The Graduate

I also liked his very small role in Sleepers. He plays burned out very well:

As Lawyer Danny Snyder: "Hey, I'm lucky I can find the courthouse. I had only four cases last year-you know how many I won? None, that's how many, none. In two of them, uh, I, a, I think the jury blamed me personally."
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Originally Posted by Mrs. Darcy
I also liked his very small role in Sleepers. He plays burned out very well:

As Lawyer Danny Snyder: "Hey, I'm lucky I can find the courthouse. I had only four cases last year-you know how many I won? None, that's how many, none. In two of them, uh, I, a, I think the jury blamed me personally."


Yeah, I love him in Sleepers, too. That movie is a big disappointment for me overall, but the scenes with Hoffman and the Mob boss played by Vittorio Gassman are fantastic. I would have loved to see a whole movie about them.


He does play burnt-out losers well, and he's great at conveying victory on screen as well. Dustin Hoffman is in two of my favorite stand-up-and-cheer moments of character triumph on screen.

The first comes in Straight Time: after being busted by his Parole Officer, played perfectly by M. Emmet Walsh in one of his first great supporting parts, Hoffman gets him back by attacking him from the passenger seat as he drives a car on the freeway, forcing him out on the shoulder, chaining him to a fence with his own handcuffs, then as a final insult dropping his pants and underwear to the ground before driving off to freedom in the man's car! It feels SO damn good when Hoffman's Max does this, leaving the twit completely humiliated on the side of the highway at evening rush hour.



The second is in Kramer vs. Kramer: just as the custody hearing is about to begin, Hoffman's Ted is fired from his job (for now spending too much time with his son)...making his position an absolute no-win vs. the very gainfully employed Joanna. He promised his lawyer that he'll "have a job in forty-eight hours." It also happens to be the two days before Christmas. But resolved not to lose the case before it even begins, Ted Kramer hits the streets, portfolio in hand, to find another job in advertising. After no success at all, at his last chance he corners one man at the company's Christmas party and talks his way into it. He undersells himself salary-wise, but it was key for him to get that job and worry about the details later. He gets it, and on the way out kisses one of the pretty women at the party, a total stranger, and walks out with a huge smile on his face. It's my favorite sequence in the film, and another one that feels so damn good to watch the character succeed.


Both of those sequences are great and well directed and everything, but part of their perfection is that they are inhabited by Hoffman, who maybe because he's not impossibly handsome or six-foot-three, character triumphs like these feel all the more impressive. In Straight Time he had barely flexed a muscle or raised his voice to that point in the film where he attacks the P.O., making the righteous explosion all the more cathartic. His everyman - or in some ways maybe even less-than-everyman persona is such a key component to his success as a movie star.

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Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
You know what I think of the freeway scene in Straight Time!

I thought Hoffman was the epitome of American actors from The Graduate through Midnight Cowboy (my Absolute Fave) to Little Big Man, up to Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, All the President's Men up 'til Marathon Man. Hoffman was the greatest actor of that decade right there, and even if you think he wasn't, he probably was in more great movies than his nemesis, Jack Nichoilson. !! Yowza !!
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He's done alot of great movies, but these are my personal fave:

7. Wag The Dog
You probably won't believe this, but I'm wagging my dog right now. One of the advantages of the internet is being able to watch onion-booty porn and discuss film with fellow connoisseurs of the cinema at the same time.
I'm actually typing all of this with only one hand.




6. The Graduate
Dustin Hoffman is perfect on his role as Benjamin Braddock,
a young graduate who at the crossroad of his life, is counselled into thinking about getting into plastics.
And in the end, he finds himself getting into Mrs. Robinson, instead.
Ah well,
for the era that this movie came out,
I guess that's close enough.




5. Tootsie
Outside of When Harry Met Sally, this movie ranks as one that could easily represent the epitomy of the modern romantic comedy.
A good script, with each of the central actors approaching their roles with quality efforts, despite the lightness of the subject matter. This movie has the heart, laughs, chemistry & even a touch of satiric social commetary that matches the rest of the film's themes in the same way that a nice pair of high heels would match an elegant dress-gown.
Tootsie's end-result is that it satisfies in the manner which was always meant to be of the rom-com when the genre was first conceived.




4. Midnight Cowboy
"I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!!"




3. Rain Man
Contrary to one of the themes of this movie, K-Mart does NOT suck. I buy all of my three striped gym socks from this fine department store franchise.
Not to mention my tighty whiteys, epson salts, Musilex & 'Tussin cure-alls.




2. All The President's Men
Deep Throat was one of the first x-rated flix I ever watched.
Now here I am, years later, wasting my life away, if not downloading vast amounts of onion booty porn,
then I'm either posting ghetto girlfight videos on youtube or I'm aimlessly commiseratin' with all of my fellow MoFo's.
So, yeah....
I know exactly where that particular "left turn" was that led me down the empty road of existance that is currently my life.

Which I know has almost next to nothing to do with this movie, but I guess that term "Deep throat" sparked off a nerve of lifetime regret or somethin'.

Anyways,
back to the list.....




1. Marathon Man
"Is it safe?"




From the wires today...

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PARIS (AP) — American actor Dustin Hoffman fought back tears as he was honored by France in Paris Thursday.

In an elaborate event in a gilded hall, Culture Minister Christine Albanel made the two-time Oscar winner an honorary commander in France's National Order of Arts and Letters and tied a green medallion around the 71-year-old actor's neck. Hoffman's eyes moistened, and after taking a second to regain his composure, he joked: "When you get to my age, you cry at the weather reports."

On a more serious note, he told The Associated Press he was "as satisfied as you can be when you wake up in the morning and say, 'that's the best dream I've ever had.'" He attended the ceremony with his wife, Lisa Gottsegen.

Albanel called Hoffman "one of the greatest actors of our time", paying tribute to his Oscar-winning performances as a workaholic father in the 1979 movie Kramer vs. Kramer and as an autistic man in Rain Man from 1988. "You have such a dramatic power that it is difficult to dissociate you from the characters you have played," Albanel said.

Hoffman said he had long been fond of French cinema, particularly movies by New Wave directors of the 1960s and post-WWII films. Hoffman is to receive another award Friday at France's equivalent of the Oscars. He is to get an honorary César Award for the body of his work.

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id love to stay and post here but it 2 miniutes to wapner



Now that we're in the YouTube Age I can add the trailer to one of my favorite Hoffman flicks, Straight Time...


STRAIGHT TIME