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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Wed Mar 31, 2021, 09:10 AM Mar 2021

"And now, little man, I give the watch to you"...HAPPY BIRTHDAY Christopher Walken.

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"And now, little man, I give the watch to you"...HAPPY BIRTHDAY Christopher Walken. (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2021 OP

Kickin' Faux pas Mar 2021 #1

I've never seen a Walken film that didn't mesmerize me with his presence. nt oasis Mar 2021 #2

snort CurtEastPoint Mar 2021 #3

Walken in "The Deer Hunter". Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #4

Lets Misbehave mockmonkey Mar 2021 #5

Welcome? mitch96 Mar 2021 #6

and my MOST FAVORITE...... a kennedy Mar 2021 #7

Faux pas

(14,645 posts)

1. Kickin'

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Mar 31, 2021, 09:12 AM

Mar 2021

L-O-V-E him!

oasis

(49,332 posts)

2. I've never seen a Walken film that didn't mesmerize me with his presence. nt

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Wed Mar 31, 2021, 09:18 AM

Mar 2021

CurtEastPoint

(18,622 posts)

3. snort

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Wed Mar 31, 2021, 09:20 AM

Mar 2021

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)

4. Walken in "The Deer Hunter".

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Mar 31, 2021, 09:38 AM

Mar 2021

The emotional breakdown and inability to talk at around 1:20 of that video is pretty much exactly how I behaved when I realized my marriage and my graduate school goals were over.

So the acting in that scene struck me as very accurate!

My experience was obviously nothing compared to the previous trauma of Walken's character in that movie, but my wife had secretly put me in deep debt and my full academic scholarship would soon be unused so I could earn more money to deal with that new problem.

It's not like I had a wealthy family to bail me out of such jams, so my goal of being a math professor pretty much died and that's how I reacted to questions from my grad school advisor about me not attending my classes lately.