is there a rip torn/norman mailer hammer fight thread yet?

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http://www.ifilm.com/video/2815238?cmpnid=746&if&filmid=2815238

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

OK WTF WAS THAT

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

It was the Rip Torn/Norman Mailer hammer fight. You hadn't heard about that?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

No. Slept on that one.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

groovy, baby

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

When Groovy Goes Bad

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

lolol

"I had to do that. You know that."

You had to hit a dude in the head with a hammer? Plz expand on that point, you fair, level-headed gentleman.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

OMGWTF i never heard about this shit either!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently...

http://lennyflatley.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/norman-mailer-battles-rip-torn/

Torn plays an assassin trying to kill Mailer in the movie, and this happened the day after shooting ended. Could be staged. However, both men were so fucking high all the time, it could also be not staged.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

break out the wrestling holds!

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone just really needs to read this page.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

done.

So Torn was only hitting him with the flat side of the hammer, and he was doing it... out of... artistic... integrity?

Come on. This is nuts no matter how you explain it.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

Though now I understand what he's saying. "I don't want to kill Mailer, but I have to kill Kingsley in the picture."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hm. You know, watching that again, that looked pretty staged. I have no doubt that they didn't hurt each other, but I think it's all given away when his wife walks in and screams a couple of times, and then before doing anything else or even screaming again, looks around for a second like she's trying to remember her line.

This film is Jackass on acid.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Who filmed this?"
"Stationary camera."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

RIP
When -- when, when is assassination
ever planned? It's done -- it's done ...

NORMAN
(bitterly)
Yeah, but you wanted to assassinate me.

RIP
That's your story, man ... that's what you're pushing,.

We hear a CHILD crying again.

RIP
That's what you're calling for. I saw your eyes.
You didn't walk ... didn't try to get away ...

NORMAN
Hey look, I don't want to talk to you n
o more cause your dialogue is dull. Got it?

RIP
(hurt at the slur against his dialogue)
It's your picture. I didn't want any dialogue.
(trying to make himself understood)
You know I pulled that punch. You know
that. Sure I busted the skin there.

NORMAN
(ruefully)
Well, you didn't pull it hard enough.

RIP
And I hit exactly even.

His hand shows the flat of the hammer coming down.
http://subcin.com/maid34.JPG
RIP
I have never hurt an actor ever before in my life.
Never drawn any blood. And that's true, you know that.
(his professional pride is engaged)
That's true. You know that.

NORMAN
Boy if I was as ugly as you, I'd bury my head in shit. Which is what you do.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://subcin.com/herve.jpg
BARNEY ROSSET
I was terrified of the violence, which was so thick you could feel it. After
the first or second day these people had finished shooting, it was still light,
and they'd gone back to where they were staying, in Bridgehampton, five
miles away. My mother in law went outside, then came back into the house
screaming, "There's a midget in the swimming pool!" My wife and I go
outside, and sure enough, there he is, floating. Someone had thrown
(Herve) Villechaize into the pool, and he was drowning. I was able to
reach over the side and pull him out. My reaction was sheer rage, sort
of "what right do they have to put this thing in our pool and then go
home, just split?" Here we were in our house, this Quonset hut sunk in
the ground, with the swimming pool and a lot of trees; this place had
been vibrant with maniacs one minute, and suddenly they're all gone.
My poor mother in law hasn't been out all day, she's been barricaded
inside, then she comes back in screaming. What I said to my wife was,
"Goddamn it, we're gonna get Norman!" I wasn't worried whether
the midget was dead or alive. I didn't even call the rescue squad.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahahahahahahahaha..fuck..i'll have what their having..motherfuckers..hahahahahaha..freekfolks make nice now.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

okay, okay wow

― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

above links dead now, but

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/maidstone_the_day_norman_mailer_ate_rip_torns_ear/

― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

I love the French subtitles

Non, mon gars.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 02:21 (fifteen years ago)

Waugh thats intense shit.

― Gumbercules (Trayce), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 05:35 (fifteen years ago)

ten years pass...

holy shit i'd never seen this before.

"WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS THIS? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, YOU MOTHERFUCKER??!!"

― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 August 2020 05:55 (five years ago)

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