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What Is It About Robert Redford?
By Richard Rayner | May 10, 1998
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/05/18/robert-redford-profile-e
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Robert Redford told me a story recently about John Huston and his 1948 film “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” The movie, based on a B. Traven novel, is about three American treasure seekers who find gold in the mountains of Mexico, go crazy, and end up trying to kill one another. Redford saw the film as a child of eleven, and regards it as one of the most meaningful cinematic experiences of his life. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” is uncompromising in its emotional intensity and its depiction of a character—Fred C. Dobbs, played by Humphrey Bogart—made paranoid and homicidal by his appetite for money. “Huston was interested in greed and power,” Redford said. “I, too, find them appealing, because greed and power make things go. The wheel finally turns on greed and power. They’re the motives that are important to know. All systems that control us, whether political or financial, or simply an industry that controls a town, run on greed and power.”
Charles Robert Redford, Jr., born in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood of Santa Monica on August 18, 1937, was the only child of a Scots-Irish milkman who later became an accountant and who, in the early nineteen-fifties, moved his small family into a tract home in the San Fernando Valley, in search of a better life. “It didn’t seem like a better life to me,” Redford said. “It seemed like a step down. Back then, the Valley was a big oven with nothing in it, a great sea of nothing, an ocean with no ships on it, and at night if you went out there were very few lights. I spent my time wanting to leave. So it was sports and getting into trouble. And cruising and getting into trouble. Drag racing on Van Nuys Boulevard.”
Redford was a gifted athlete but bone idle. He also hated school, and often skipped it—a rebellion against his family, many of whom were educators. He had twin great-aunts who were both teachers, one a Republican, the other a Communist and a follower of Emma Goldman. They died within ten days of each other, both run over, one on the East Coast, the other on the West. His uncle, a Rhodes Scholar, had a contract to play baseball for the St. Louis Browns, enlisted, and was serving in Patton’s Third Army when he was killed by a German sniper in Belgium. “Don’t get me going about my family,” Redford said. “It’s a lot of bad luck.” His father was obsessed with not having enough money. “When I was born, my father earned thirty-five dollars a week. I remember hearing that figure most of my life. It was jammed down my throat, or up my ass. Somebody who’d worked so hard for so little didn’t take kindly to his kid lying in the grass staring at clouds. He’d say it over and over again, ‘Thirty-five dollars a week, thirty-five dollars a week, thirty-five dollars a week.’ I obviously wasn’t going to amount to much. It gave me an edge. I went out looking for it, the wildest possible edge, and I went after it with a vengeance.”
His mother died when Redford was eighteen, and soon after he left the Valley to attend the University of Colorado (he started as a prelaw student and then changed to art). “I wasn’t happy. I was drinking, and talking all the time about going to Europe, dreaming about Utrillo and Matisse and Braque,” Redford recalls. “I wanted to be in that place, where they’d been. I’d wanted out of L.A., but Colorado wasn’t far enough. I had a teacher, Richard Dudley, who said, ‘Don’t talk. Just go do it.’ ”
So in 1956, Redford dropped out and left. “Around the time I went to Europe, I got interested in who I was. I felt as though a film had been ripped from my eyes. I’d done sports, I’d done trouble, and suddenly something clicked into place. I went everywhere with a pad, sketching, drawing pictures, making notes. A consciousness is what happened to me.”
He had, in effect, a crash course in European politics. He met French commu
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LongWalk could not even enter the top3, got defeated by the foreign Demonslayer cartoon, The Conjuring remake AND DowntonAbbey
maybe crazy psycho StephenKing will go back on the pills and booze?
Daily #BoxOffice Top 7 for Monday
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1968065333463498894#m
1. #DemonSlayer - $5.02M
2. #TheConjuringLastRites - $1.85M
3. #DowntonAbbey - $1.75M
4. #TheLongWalk - $1.12M
5. #ToyStory - $237K
6. #WeaponsMovie - $235K
7. #Hamilton - $206K
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LongWalk could not even enter the top3, got defeated by the foreign Demonslayer cartoon, The Conjuring remake AND DowntonAbbey
maybe crazy psycho StephenKing will go back on the pills and booze?
Daily #BoxOffice Top 7 for Monday
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1968065333463498894#m
1. #DemonSlayer - $5.02M
2. #TheConjuringLastRites - $1.85M
3. #DowntonAbbey - $1.75M
4. #TheLongWalk - $1.12M
5. #ToyStory - $237K
6. #WeaponsMovie - $235K
7. #Hamilton - $206K
He went on a big apology tour over that Kirk comment. I doubt it was any more genuine than when Rosie O'Donnell made her big apology only a week earlier, but these are two of the last people you'd ever expect to be issuing apologies for their behavior. Times have changed. They know this now.
We'll be watching both of them.
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The Democrats are the party of Murder.
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Quote:Do you realize that King did no work on The Long Walk? But he got paid, anyway:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We were just talking about this asshole in the other thread yesterday...
Looks like Karma just came for Stephen King...
Stephen King’s ‘The Long Walk’ Bombs At Box Office Following Charlie Kirk Comments: 33-Year Low
https://cosmicbook.news/stephen-king-long-walk-bombs-box-office
FUCK YOU STEVE.
I hope the Kirk Estate sues you into oblivion for spreading your hate and your Legacy Media lies.
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The Democrats are the party of Murder.
The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film directed and produced by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman).
Stephen King wrote The Long Walk between 1966 and 1967 as a freshman in college, but it was not published until 1979 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. He began the novel as a teenager, completing his first draft at 19 years old. He is 77 years old today, born September 21, 1947. Next week, he will be 78. It shows that Hollywood is silly to make that novel into a movie, but King doesn't care.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk_(2025_film)#Production
By the way, Charlie Kirk's resurrection after burial in the Pet Cemetery (or Pet Sematary, alternate Stephen King spelling) will not be made into a movie because who buys tickets to movies about some dead Angry-Poor-White-Trash/Propagandist/Trumptard?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:The Charlie Kirk/Turning Point USA story would make a stupendous Hollywood movie.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He went on a big apology tour over that Kirk comment. I doubt it was any more genuine than when Rosie O'Donnell made her big apology only a week earlier, but these are two of the last people you'd ever expect to be issuing apologies for their behavior. Times have changed. They know this now.
We'll be watching both of them.
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The Democrats are the party of Murder.
It's Hollywood material. Turning Point USA is ART! Let's consider that the other founder died from COVID in 2020. Two people start a conservative organization to push COVID conspiracies and pro-gun ideals, among other things. One dies of COVID. The other dies of gun violence. It's so on the nose that it's actually cliche, which is perfection for Hollywood!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Do you realize that King did no work on The Long Walk? But he got paid, anyway
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We were just talking about this asshole in the other thread yesterday...
Looks like Karma just came for Stephen King...
Stephen King’s ‘The Long Walk’ Bombs At Box Office Following Charlie Kirk Comments: 33-Year Low
https://cosmicbook.news/stephen-king-long-walk-bombs-box-office
FUCK YOU STEVE.
I hope the Kirk Estate sues you into oblivion for spreading your hate and your Legacy Media lies.
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The Democrats are the party of Murder.
Don't care.
But he did come out and apologize, admit he was wrong, and admit that he got sucked in by propaganda without fact checking it.
And the fact that King has "Fuck You" money and didn't need to apologize but still did shows us that as big of an asshole as Steve is, and he is a gaping asshole, he's still a better man than either you or Ted are.
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Excuses for Flops?
Stephen King's The Long Walk Isn't A Big Box Office Hit, But It Didn't Need To Be https://www.slashfilm.com/1968998/stephen-king-the-long-walk-box-offic
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Excuses for Flops?
Stephen King's The Long Walk Isn't A Big Box Office Hit, But It Didn't Need To Be https://www.slashfilm.com/1968998/stephen-king-the-long-walk-box-offic
e
I can literally hear them gagging on cock just reading that headline.
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Daily #BoxOffice Top 7 for Tuesday
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1968423993050022104#m
1. #DemonSlayer - $5.42M
2. #TheConjuringLastRites - $2.55M
3. #DowntonAbbey - $2.42M
4. #TheLongWalk - $1.63M
5. #ToyStory - $370K
6. #WeaponsMovie - $341K
7. #Hamilton - $269K
SNOW WHITE remake 205.7M worldwide,
it is one of Disney's most expensive films.
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/32980-snow-white-1185m-overse
as-2057m-worldwide/page/2/#comments
The Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate fight as the final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji begins.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle (2025) vs. The Monkey (2025) vs. Thunderbolts* (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Demon-S
layer-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-The-Movie-Infinity-Castle-(2025-Japan)/Monkey-The-(2025)/Thunderbolts-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
The Long Walk (2025) vs. Weapons (2025) vs. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Long-Wa
lk-The-(2025)/Weapons-(2025)/Demon-Slayer-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-The-Movie-Infinity-Castle-(2025-Japan)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
Demon Slayer Box Office Proves Success At Movie Theaters Isn’t About Blockbusters
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/demon-slayer-box-o
ffice-proves-013941250.html
Box Office: Anime ‘Demon Slayer Infinity Castle’ Makes History With Record $70M U.S. Opening
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/demon-slayer-infin
ity-castle-record-box-office-opening-1236370035/
The Japanese blockbuster was among a slew of new wide releases in North America
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Demon Slayer Japan Anime a big US opening and it has nice music
...but....doing 'Elio' numbers now, even Thunderbolts didnt crash this hard and its the wrong time of year for box office
Huge drop on Demonslayer 2025 First Wednesday and First Thursday
it can still beat The Fantastic Four remake Worldwide and can stay in the Top10 unless another bunch of Pixar / Disney toons are coming before Christmas or a movie like Tron Ares does great numbers
Stephen King's 'The Long Walk' did $1,070,759 on Wednesday...it could be sub 1 million already? they wont even release the Thursday numbers
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