Acting Gods | 5 Breathtaking Scenes of the 1970's
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2024
- Our series move on to the 70's De Niro, Hackman and Jodie Foster. Method acting develops, the movies themselves become hard hitting, brave and enthralling.
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Pretty awesome that 47 years after getting Oscar nominations for TAXI DRIVER - both Bobby and Jodie have been nominated again in 2024.
Very cool indeed! Here’s to acting longevity 👏🍾🎉
He is a jerk!
She is such a great actor ... even at that age. She's amazing. Of course, he's so good as well.
@@user-lh9pj5px3iI know! He’s terrible at true strategies that might have convinced her. But the screenwriter did a great job of getting across how socially inept he actually was.
what age? I can't stand the US obsession with youth. When I trained as an actor I was told that you couldn't be a real actor until you were 40. There are exceptions, but it's true. So much wisdom is wasted in this country and that's why we're in the shitter. @@SherryAnnOfTheWest
Jodie Foster was remarkable. De Niro was amazing, but Foster, wow.
Jodie Foster is like the female version of River Phoenix… but she didn’t die and continued to develop.
😥
I still miss River and wonder about all the contributions to film we never got to see from him.
@@julietwochholz9755same 💔
What? No Russian Roulette scene from the Deer Hunter??? THAT'S breathtaking.
Yesssss!!!!!
Jodi is such an old soul. She has not changed a bit....
It's so weird. I was thinking the same thing. Are just the same people we were when we were that age? It seems like we are. Almost like our personalities are set in stone and they slowly mold over time.
Robert Shaw's Indianapolis scene from "Jaws" should be here.
Excellent point.
My exact thoughts too, great scene, great movie...
The best scene from Jaws was in the cabin of the boat at night drinking telling how they got their scars. Best buddy scene ever.
Agreed. One of the most haunting, mesmerizing scenes ever.
Agreed, but the scene with Brody's son is the heart of the movie.
Some acting legends here, always great to see Gene Hackman.
I miss Gene Hackman on screen. I remember him on Larry King’s CNN show in approximately 2004 stating he “couldn’t get a job.” I was stunned. This Oscar winner who was in Bonnie and Clyde, Reds, No Way Out, The French Connection, and so many other great films was unemployable? He retired shortly thereafter and he is still missed. Kevin Costner gave a lovely tribute to him and Sean Connery years ago at an awards ceremony acknowledging their greatness as actors, missing them, and wishing they would come out of retirement. We all felt the same, but sadly, it never happened. At least we have their previous work forever on celluloid. Here’s to the greats. ❤🥂❤️
He’s electrifying. Mississippi Burning is one of my all time faves.
@@Jettypilelegs Agreed. Willem Dafoe and Francis McDormand were great in that excellent film also.
@@nanny287 we were spoiled by an abundance of richness with that cast.
Gene is one of my all time favourites
Honorable mentions: Sissy Spacek in Carrie and Sally Fields in Sybil made me want to be an actor
Sally Fields in Sybil, how horribly UNDERRATED was THIS??? It haunted me for many years.
Don't forget to give credit to the Screenwriters who birthed the dialog, and the Directors who shaped the words.
Jodie sure knows how to act.....
Yeah. She did even back then at 13.
Great era for movies.
Wow!: Jodie's acting at that age- One minute HARD then she transforms into a giggling sweet kid.
Great choices! I miss that decade of filmmaking. Damn, I forgot how amazing an actor Jodie Foster was at a young age...then again, I remember her chops in that TV series with "Mr Eddie's father" ;-)
So glad thanks for your enthusiasm, mroe coming!
Do you mean “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”??? 🎉I REMEMBER that show!!!!!! Bill Bixby!!!!!!!!!
Yes, THAT's the one! ;-)@@mrsmacca126
These are the films that saved the 1970's!!!🎥🎞📽🎬
Jodie. Jaded at eleven. Damn, she's the stuff.
And Meryl Streep....wow.
As a human born into ladyhood: Rock Out and ON, strong humans!!!
The 1970s was a great decade for movies.
Absolutely 👍
The 1970s was a great decade for everything. It was the best decade in the 20th century.
@@armandoneri3607 Definitely movies and music
Jody Foster in Taxi Driver…she’s worldly, into Astrology, great subtle dialogue…”Are you a scorpion? I knew it, I can tell a scorpion every time!”👍
As she's telling him she's not a child, she's showing him with those sandwich ingredients that she is a child. And every tween girl is into astrology. The juxtapositions here are perfect. Writing, directing, and acting are all stellar.
She's hyper intelligent but at the same time showing she is still very young by the astrology beliefs.
@@eltravos99She’s indoctrinated. She has been fully indoctrinated by her pimp / lover / father / god figure “Sport” (Harvey Keitel). She has been taught and is now able quickly to rattle off a number of irrelevant facts from her detailed and systemic knowledge of an (irrefutable and thus worthless) system of human psychology and behavioral explanation (astrology) in order to both give herself and anyone who might question her the impression of having an independent, intelligent and free mind. But the “knowledge” she has is unconnected to the real world and ultimately worthless outside of the small group to which she already belongs (Sport and the other prostitutes under him and their clients). She has fully adopted and embraced the logic of her oppressed, enslaved and abused state and interpret it as “freedom”, because she’s been indoctrinated. Even someone as unskilled as Travis Bickle has little trouble initiating a state of dissonance in her. She is full of the false consciousness provided by her oppressor … Sport. Because her “knowledge” is worthless outside of the small group to which she already belongs she runs the very grave risk of “aging out” of the opportunity to take advantage of the fact the average person will still feel empathy for her state. In a couple more years she will become effectively “institutionalized” into the alternative world Sport and people like him entrap young children like her.
The fact that only Travis Bickle seems to notice what is happening to her and is ultimately motivated by mixed and confused, not completely unselfish feelings towards her says a lot about the other allegedly “liberal” and “emancipatory” characters that are part of the movie. Or it says a lot about the screenwriter’s and director’s opinion about those kind of people and the institutions they represented at the time of the mid-1970s in America, a time that had already hardened into the “Me Decade” and “Me Generation” well on its way to the looming disaster of the “Greed Is Good” 1980s of Gordon Gekko which was codified and made into an alleged civic virtue by Reagan and Thatcher and the trickle down supply side neoliberal capitalist economics of Hayak and Friedman which turned the rich into a permanent social strata and gave them a political god-like status, and permanent increasingly unlimited access to the political system to defeat the democratic process and the interests of poor and mixed up people like Travis and her.
The line ‘he calls you names, he calls you a little piece of chicken’ was De Niro dropping into improv. Jodie at 12 years old didn’t bat an eyelid. Don’t think this film could be made today. The 70’s was the last golden age of cinema I fear. The drugs references such as sugar on jam and the changing of Jodie’s glasses. You could study this scene for hours and see more….
We were all so much younger.....
Great memories from great performances.
I wasn't!
@@hippojuice23 Well, hopefully someday you will be. Growing old is a privilege denied to many. Be grateful if you live long enough to say "I remember when I was young".
@@peach7210 That was joke poking fun at clichéd reactions to sentimental media designed to appeal to a particular era/generation.
Jodie Foster, the Queen 👸
For sure. Became a life long fan after that movie. She's pure talent and class.
Dustin Hoffman slapped Meryl Streep (UNSCRIPTED!) in the face in this film! 😡
Great trivia knowledge
Indeed trivia was the wrong word, we do apologise, FYI, Meryl Streep also protected Harvey Weinstein, and called him ‘GOD’ in her Oscar acceptance speech. So it’s one horrible world we live in.
Genius move
I'm with you on all of these, but I think I would have chosen a clip from Papillon for Dustin Hoffman. That was Hoffman's absolute peak during the 70s.
All the presidents men
The 70’s were and always will be the best decade of cinema.
So much pathos in acting then. Today every film has a gleam of artifice on it.
It's the perfect teeth. Ruins everything.
Terrific clips! I enjoyed this trip back to the ‘70’s. You’ve earned yourself a new subscriber ✌🏻
These five scenes put together are far, far better than all of the insipid, flat, AI and CGI dreck that's been produced in the last five years...
WE WANT *TRUE HUMANITY* BACK IN THE MOVIES!!
F*CK UR GREEN SCREEN AND TIRED RECYCLED GENRES...
Thanks for posting 👍
You don't get out much, do you?
I love Jodie Foster ❤ Meryl Streep is so hateful in this, I love her. Roy Schneider is terrific. I love seeing the old NYC I fell in love with.
Jodie is my fave child star (turn to Adult star). She is so beyond gifted.
I don't think she was hateful. The film kind of wants you to see her as hateful, but I see her just as a woman who needs to get out of that relationship, that she's felt trapped and hasn't known how to get out. She's probably told him in a million subtle ways what's wrong and he hasn't gotten it. So her only alternative is a clean break, rip the bandaid right off. If she's anything like the many women who left their husbands during the 70's, this is the only way she could figure out how to do it.
@@carolcyr8553She left her kid. That’s hateful.
I agree that leaving her kid like that was horrible. What a scarring trauma for that child. I guess i was just thinking about her leaving her husband, when I commented. I don’t think she was hateful in the way she left her husband.
@@carolcyr8553 Look. I get your initial point. And, there is no doubt that there were a lot of women in suffocating marriages.
And, I was 14 when this came out and thought it was great. And, while my folks stayed together. I knew plenty whose didn’t. And, I generally felt the moms were in the right.
The thing about it now, as an adult and a stronger movie critic, is that everything you said might be true. But there is LITERALLY nothing in the film to support it. Hoffman ain’t a brute or macho. Be it in the movie or real life. He wasn’t Burt Reynolds.
He comes home and boom. She is out of there. We can divine that he works a lot. But there is nothing to suggest he mistreats her. And, from the cards she lays down, they have a nice life. Isn’t willing to talk. Go to therapy. Etc.
If we reversed it, at any point in time, there would be very few women empathetic to a man suffocating in a marriage who just runs away for a year. And, rightly so.
Hoffman grows. Becomes a better human. Reflected in his relationship w his son and w the female neighbor. And ultimately not appealing custody decision.
Meanwhile she disappears for 15 months. Like, I think we all can kind of understand losing your shite for a coupe of days or a week. But, over a year. That’s just awful.
While she uses his job loss and the jungle gym accident against him.
Even as a 14 year boy I felt this tactic was awful. I understood that moms got custody. And that it was generally better. But, it just didn’t sit right.
She was pretty awful.
French connection should be shown in all schools.
Gene Hackman would be my favorite as a kid who grew up in the 70's. Funny enough, much later in life I worked at an upscale retail store in midtown Manhattan and had Robert De Niro as a regular customer (as regular as a celebrity can be). He was a low key guy and I treated him like any customer. One time songwriter Sting's assistant came in a few days before Christmas and had us express some gifts to Bruce Springsteen, Russel Crowe and Dustin Hoffman. And that same holiday I came back from my lunch break and noticed a colleague helping Meryl Streep (she dressed down). When I told him, he didn't believe me until he looked at the credit card (more carefully). Ahh, the 70's.
You should write a book, thanks for sharing!
I worked at Diamonds department store, which is now Dillards when I was in high school (1975). I waited on a very nice lady, who I thought was very pretty and very small built. It was Barbra Streisand. I never let her know that I recognized her but I always remember her.
Amazing, wow 🤩
Oh sure Dillards was right around the corner from where I worked...interesting to know it was a Diamonds prior. I always tried to treat well known individuals like any other customer. I am sure BS appreciated just being one among many. @@jacquelineaslan8403
I love Brando's scene in " Apocalypse Now ", one of my top 5. Greetings.
I'm happy to have stumbled across your channel. :) Your clips remind me of some fantastic theater experiences, had many years ago. I'm thoroughly enjoying watching these scenes - film is as much a personal experience as it is a cultural one, and this channel shows just how well some very talented people can show us the past and possible future, as well as it can hold a mirror to its audience in a lasting and meaningful way. These movies will be celebrated for their achievements forever. Thanks for your contributions!
Incredibly kind, I hope you keep with us, lots more to come.
@@Vortexfilmclub I look forward to it. I'm really enjoying going through your catalog. :)
Wonderful comment.
I remember each film vividly. Don’t look now’s a favourite.
Dustin begging for a job on Christmas Eve was actually my favorite scene from Kramer vs Kramer. Not this one
I was just thinking that too
Love Jodi Foster and Meryl Streep ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Meryl and Bob, together in 'Falling in Love' ....😢
Mean Streets should be on here. I ❤ Julie Christie.
Arrrggghhh great choice!!
I love a lot of movies from a lot of decades, but I swear I love more movies from the 70’s hands down!
7:59 Bill Hickman. Best stunt driver in the business at the time. (Also drove on Bullitt and the Seven Ups)
Good catch 👍I remember him from Bullitt
I know all of these films except Don't Look Now. Will seek it out. The French Connection I return to every couple of years.
I just watched it a few months ago. Plays like a straight drama but it's a thriller with a twist ending. I still haven't decided if I liked it, but I'm glad to have seen it, if that makes sense.
@@stephanie1624Watch it again in a few months. It captivates.
“Breathtaking” is an odd choice of descriptives to use for these scenes.
Thank you❤
De Niro & Foster match the countertops-I wonder why they color coordinated the actors with the set
The 1970s was the best decade for movies.
Thank you. All of these are great scenes from great films. I treasure them all!
Some of the greatest films ever made
It's classy presentation, classy quality editing, well chosen clips, but you must make LONGER videos, i like longer videos myself, but i also think your views will go UP !
Movie goof at the 1:05 mark… the arm of her glasses went from on top to behind her hair
I’d have been throwing way more of a fit than Hackman if that had been me in his shoes. lol
Omg... From all of those classic movies.. The only one I've seen is Jaws..and I can't use age as an excuse.. I'm 68 and a movie buff lol
Faye dunaway , Chinatown.
Popeye being outwitted - ballet
If there isn't a clip of Jodie Foster in this movie under the phrase "acting beyond her years," in the dictionary I want to know why not.
Holy christ, Jodie Foster's acting chops are utterly phenomenal. All through the TD scene I'm thinking how butthurt GenZ and baby millennials would be over this scene and start gasping and pearl clutching and thinking they're gonna cancel Jodie Foster and De Niro....lol. They wish they had that talent.
I'm going to need to go rewatch this tonight. It drew me right in.
I’m Gen Z, and I love TD! I believe the GenZ does. Most of us aren’t apart of the cancel culture as much as you think though. It’s the baby millennials. In every Reddit thread asking for each Gen to their own proves my point. Trust me the GenZ isn’t as soft as you think, only the small minority of us are tricked by the baby millennials. Just had to rant for a min 😂
Yes
❤❤❤
Sonny getting gunned down at the toll booth?
Pacino in The Godfather? Brando as well? Come on....
I've never actually seen Taxi Driver.. Is it worth watching?
If you can appreciate great performances, you have to watch it
@@Txjape70 I do and I love Rob De Niro
Great, a classic. And Dog Day Afternoon.
at 1:04 the bread looks untoasted and toasted at 1:24 . Thats my intelligent input. ( corrected my typo - kinda took away from my intelligent comment) - although spelling is not linked to intelligence ( topic for another day) .
Intelligent ***
I stopped hearing the dialogue when Jodie started putting sugar on jelly. Is jelly not sweet enough?
John Cazale !!!!
You chose Jaws, but not the "USS Indianapolis" scene???
Why are footsteps in movies so much LOUDER than in real life. It always sounds like tap dancing.
Maybe the sound foley artist got paid too much and wanted to give his moneys worth to the producers 😆
@@Vortexfilmclub @Vortexfilmclub Oh, definitely. But of course not just this example (French Connection) but what seems like every movie/television show in the 70's did the exact same thing with the footsteps. Especially during any kind of chase scene.
It's more of a directing choice and a crutch for the storytelling, I guess. But I always notice it and kind of laugh about it.
Even the most famous opening walking scene from the 70's had it - except luckily mostly covered up by the sound of the Bee Gees.
It’s often that polished, leather, dress shoe sound with a hard sole, you can hear the stones crunch under each step. Not very practical in a real life chases scene I imagine.
Two words: CHARLES BRONSON!!
How the heck do you skip a legend like that? I was born in the early 1980s (from Nigeria originally) and grew up watching Bronson movies. In Nigeria he is almost worshipped.
2 of the best movies of the 70s are The Mechanic (1972) and Death Wish (1974), both Bronson films.
Why did this video shoot through the roof ( in views ) ? All videos are the same quality , or perhaps it's more interesting...why the others don't have so many clicks ?
Good question, regular uploads, keeping the channel alive with a mix of content but also these lists are interesting to viewers. They are great platforms for chatting about classic films. We have 70’s horror coming up and 80’s sci-fi 👍
Curious choice for Don't Look Now. There at least half a dozen better scenes.
Wasn't Jodie adorable?
Not my 5 scenes
Robert Deniro loves them underage actors.
Unpopular opinion but..
DeNiro in Taxi Driver sounded like he had not been given a script and was struggling to adlib. Not in a 'natural' way but in a 'hesitant and floundering' way. I know he did adlib parts like the 'You looking at me?' speech and they worked but this scene was horrible.
Did you actually see the movie and think about his character in it?
I think he plays the character perfectly, a little slow mentally is who Travis Bickle is
Still amazes me that people watch Taxi Driver and think Travis is the good guy...
Why isn't he?
@@weltschmerski Because murdering people just because you think they're bad is wrong, even if some of them are total scumbags.
And I thought I was square.
The 70s were just a grittier time. Everything was real, on TV, movies or in real life. Then the 80s happened. Political correctness became a thing. Then the 90s, 00s... etc. We live in a world gone wrong. And no one wants to make it better.
Why is every movie about children or includes children?
In the interest of people, the fecalism in the stoves from which they were visited in the avaari
Breathtaking? 😄
Very!
Ok, Streep is amazing in K vs K, but Hoffman? He's just ok. And he got the Oscar.......over the much better performance in a film that belongs on this list without question: Peter Sellers in BEING THERE. But it's the Oscars and they know nothing, just like this list-maker failed by excluding BT.
hopefully, they fired the prop guy
Travis! No!!! She doesn't like men!
I can’t believe she ate that gross sandwich! 🤮
"Don't Look Now" scene wasn't that special.
The seventies gave birth to degeneracy in film.
Humanity gave birth to degeneracy. 😎🖤👍
Jodie was quite hot when she was young
For what it’s worth, she was 12 when filming Taxi Driver.
Yep, 12 years old there. Granted, she was precocious, but still 12. EEP.
@@dr.pennington1664 hot? She was a child!
You responded to the Wrong person-I’m saying she’s 12 so it’s inappropriate. Notice the EEep! I think your connect was meant for the person who said she’s hot.
Jodies got pokies...
Come here-give us a kiss.
Why?
Because I need it.
🩷love that scene
to bad deniro went to 🤡💩😫🫤🤔🤪👎