Apex Mountain
Christopher Walken in 1990; Laurence Fishburne; the Plaza Hotel; movie limos; Schoolly D on screen
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- King of New York may win the best-Walken-role contest because he gets to be funny, scary and weird here, unlike The Deer Hunter, and plays a vampire without making it metaphysical.
- Apex Mountain is 1990 Walken, setting up Batman Returns about 18 months later and filmmakers writing scenes for him.
- Fishburne is named: the excitement over him after this movie was never matched; another voice can go with that while citing The Matrix.
- Boyz n the Hood is raised as an alternative peak; the Fishburne case says he could have become the greatest actor of his generation after this, building on Apocalypse Now and every film before it.
- Searching for Bobby Fisher is joked about as an Apex.
- The Plaza Hotel is named, compared with its Home Alone appearance; it has to be Apex Mountain.
- Movie limos are added: 'Let's put it in there.'
- Schoolly D is an Apex on screen, no question, though maybe not in his career.
- Freddie Jackson is offered, with uncertainty about where he was in his career.
- Pre-gentrification Brooklyn is just thrown out.