Viggo Mortensen C/D?

great

He is one of the Dunedein, mortal men blessed with long life. Total classic.

Used to be married to Exene Cervenka so classique of course!

Very excited for Eastern Promises. Cronenberg should marry him and they should be monogamous (at least filmmaking-wise).

They STILL aren't showing that in my town! I feel like Cartman waiting for the Nintendo Wii.

he steals the show in 28 Days

Major dude.

he was great in Eastern Promises. surprisingly.

Classic. To the max.

See "Indian Runner," one of his earliest movies, Sean Penn's directorial debut. Affecting, uncomfortable movie, and Viggo is excellent.

Another amazing performance is in "Alatriste," the biggest-budget movie ever made in Spain, in which he starred. Unfortunately, it's damned hard to get hold of in the States, and has only been shown here in NY,LA and Miami that I know of. It's not a very "American" movie -- which means you have to pay attention to it, not much blows up, it's moderately downbeat and it doesn't have a happy ending.

his appearance in the Stepford Wives remake was the best part of the movie

Haha, I saw that remake maybe two months ago, and I didn't even remember he was in it! I guess that just shows how crappy it was.

He was very good in "The Passion of Darkly Noon", which is also Brendan Fraser's finest hour.

I never mention "Passion" because I find that so few people have seen it, it's difficult to discuss. But I love that movie, along with Philip Ridley's other movie with Viggo, "The Reflecting Skin." I find they have a very painterly feel.

And yes, yes! on the Stepford Wives! The only part of the movie I liked, and I must have watched it (that part, not the whole movie) a dozen times. First the picture of Orlando Bloom, then the shirt "Viggo!" An epic moment. *grin*

We'll just ignore this...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F0W01937L._AA240_.jpg

Hilariously enough, that remake has two exs of Exene (Viggo and John Doe) and two cast members of 90210.

Of Viggo relevance to Angeleno ILXors - Showing next week as part of the Lech Majewski retrospective (which starts today!) at UCLA:

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HARRY
(Ewangelia wedlung Harry'ego)
(1992) Directed by Lech Majewski

Starring Viggo Mortensen before he became famous, this maverick allegory takes place, according to Majewski, when "the Pacific has dried up and California has become a desert. A couple try to make the best of it but life is hard; even sex hurts. The only person who enjoys himself is Harry, the tax collector."

Cinematographer: Grzegorz Kedzierski. Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jennifer Rubin. Presented in Polish dialogue with English subtitles. 35mm, 88 min.

He's going to play the father in the movie of "The Road". There's a casting call for the kid in the Springfield, MO area.

who is directing?

Oh, shit. I just read that. AWESOME.

Damn, that's good casting.

it is good casting but it could/should have been an animated film.

No because it would have been all Waking Life-style nonsense. Somehow.

I could see Japanese animation working - something like Tokyo Godfathers.

A fine film to be sure. Grave of the Fireflies might be too obvious a model.

who is directing?

John Hillcoat, who doesn't have much of a filmography, but The Proposition was pretty good I thought.

Eastern Promises STILL isn't in theaters here. History of Violence just came via Netflix; that's the closest I can pretend to accessing it.

Saw Eastern Promises last night and loved it. So excited to read this news about him in "The Road."

Eastern Promises hasn't made it closer than Memphis here, either. I'm hoping it's out on DVD soon, cause the Kidlet really wants to see it.

Supposedly "The Road" will be filming in Australia, too. "The Proposition" was excellent, I thought. I didn't think I could actually be pleased at the idea of a movie version of this book, but this sounds like it's heading in the right direction.

Just got back from Eastern Promises. Very funny in a very unsettling way. The steam bath scene got big laughs in the screening I was in. Mortensen is excellent.

The road is coming out soon and I am watching Viggo himself in A Perfect Murder, which is basically a Lifetime movie. Love this guy.

God this movie is terrible. It is also from 1998.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JBot7oQuKM

In THE PERFECT MURDER he just made a terrible painting (collage??) of Gwyneth Paltrow and smeared charcoal all over it. This guy truly has no limits.

I thought he was absolutely fucking terrifying as Lucifer in "The Prophecy"

The Road had its moments, but kind of a yawn. Robert Duvall cameo-plus kind of the SCTV version of himself.

kind of

Reflecting Skin is still the best movie of all time not yet on DVD.

the road was pretty awful imo

I kept imagining the MAD parody.

it pretty much was a parody, of the book.

but there was a baby on a spit in the book? of all the things to omit!

I found it hard to accept a 21st-century American kid saying "Papa," esp when it's a dad who's seen wearing an Abercrombie t-shirt.

Thought Viggo nailed it in The Road, and the kid wasn't bad either.

i thought he was good but the kid was pretty rough

"PAPA PAPA"

I thought he was OK - had a good haunted look, and his performance was pretty understated. The overuse of 'papa' is in the book too.

papa-papa-papa-papa-papa-papa-papa
oooo-mau-mau
papa-oooo-mau-mau

young Viggo, ay yi yi

(marginally NSFW? i mean, it's safe to say why you'd be lookin at these)

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/04/80s-flashback-a-fur-flashing-viggo-mortensen.html

Love this guy. (The pope stuff is only a small chunk of the interview and the reasons he gives for defending him seem pretty sound to me.)

Good interview. My wife is not the obsessed Viggo stalker-fan that she used to be, but she still follows his career and will be interested in this.

He also speaks elvish!