performance and image, that's what it's all about: THE WARREN OATES POLL

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I voted very sentimentally in this poll.
He wasn't ever bad in anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OMoZNdz1v4

Alfredo Garcia or Cockfighter, can't decide

Race with the Devil (1975) .... Frank Stewart
Cockfighter (1974) .... Frank Mansfield
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) .... Bennie
Badlands (1973) .... Father
Dillinger (1973) .... John Dillinger
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) .... G.T.O
The Wild Bunch (1969) .... Lyle Gorch

OK I can't choose here, probably comes down to a toss-up between Alfredo Garcia and Two-Lane Blacktop though. Greatest American actor of all time?

I'm deadset on two-lane blacktop but if anyone would like to rep for their personal fave I'd like to hear it

haven't seen most of these but voted two-lane blacktop because it's great

I voted for Stripes simply because he's the big toe.

totally forgot he was in badlands

haven't seen it in years but he's great in the shooting iirc (tho his costar millie perkins is terrible in it)

hellman/oates is like a US herzog/kinski

and two-lane blacktop is their aguirre

I really love THE SHOOTING, existential weirdo western with Jack Nicholson, I think Bob Rafelson directed it?
It's almost got a pre-El Topo vibe. Oates fans who haven't seen it really ought to.

lol xpost^

I dunno, EIII, I think that Oates really fruitful director relationship was with Peckinpah.
I guess that's arguable.

the shooting is the western hellman shot back to back with ride in the whirlwind

oates is pretty central to hellman's filmography considering the small number of films he made

China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) .... Matthew Sebanek
Cockfighter (1974) .... Frank Mansfield
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) .... G.T.O
The Shooting (1967) .... Willett Gashade


china 9, liberty 37 is pretty lol (A++++ Jenny Agutter nudity tho)

I love Stripes, but I'll go with Two-Lane Blacktop. I forget the exact wording, but he's got a great line to the effect of, "If I don't get myself grounded, I'm going to disappear." There were a number of times during Alfredo Garcia where I laughed and wasn't sure if I was meant to.

Oh, and [i]Cockfighter[i]'s very good.

"if I'm not grounded pretty soon I'm gonna go into orbit"

so many great oates lines in two-lane blacktop

prolly goes without saying but don't watch cockfighter unless you've got a high tolerance for violence against animals

Tom Sawyer (1973) .... Muff Potter

this is a musical apparently, anyone seen it?

oates' peckinpah films, same number as he did for hellman

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) .... Bennie
The Wild Bunch (1969) .... Lyle Gorch
Major Dundee (1965) .... O.W. Hadley
Ride the High Country (1962) .... Henry Hammond

I have very vague late '70s memories of seeing that tom sawyer on TV

i liked it when i was a kid, probably one of the first movies i saw in a theater.
xposts

so you probably didn't say "oh look, warren oates!"

"he was great in the wild bunch!"

oates' expletive filled turn in the apple dumpling gang ended up the cutting room floor, alas

bring me the head of tim conway

classic early oates performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87iZbUGN3dU

the white dawn sounds interesting

This 1974 feature by Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff) is an equally fascinating and amusing piece of historical lore about three whalers (played by Timothy Bottoms, Warren Oates, and Lou Gossett) marooned on an ice cap in the Canadian Arctic. Rescued by a nomadic Inuit community, the trio gradually becomes a part of its rituals and rhythms, despite their occasional reluctance and exploitative impulses. Kaufman's grasp of the experience of wonder beyond one's usual horizons is as enthralling as his later The Wanderers or The Unbearable Lightness of Being, though the exotica of The White Dawn is craftily cut by the crusty, suspicious performance by Oates (whose character introduces his hosts to alcohol). Bottoms's boyish sentimentality brings some balance to the story, but in the end it's the fateful blending of wildly different cultures that seizes one's imagination. The great cinematography is by Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver). Henry Mancini's memorable score was re-orchestrated and used quite effectively in The Right Stuff. --Tom Keogh

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The scene in Alfredo where the head's in the passenger seat and Warren has a conversation with it--he did that without breaking down into hysterics, right? If so, I agree with the results.

(Or was it Warren in the passenger seat and the head driving? Jesus, that was one strange movie.)

china 9, liberty 37 available for streaming on netflix

Dillinger got nothing? :(

Didn't see this poll tho so

Just watched Cockfighter, made taking an objective-based vow of silence seem pretty awesome tbh