What’s Aged the Best?
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- The options offered are the train scene, the dam scene and Tommy Lee Jones.
- One participant goes with TLJ, a second says TLJ too, and the third agrees, while noting the set pieces are worth considering.
- The performance is timeless like Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs and Lillard in Scream; a Sam Gerard U.S. Marshal TV show would be watched every week.
- The physical train set piece now looks almost quaint, whereas the character-based dam scene is timeless.
- No one of that generation could have played Gerard as well; William Holden is floated from the 70s, John Cusack is a cautionary example, and Hackman is the only other option though less fit for chasing through a sewer.
- Tommy Lee Jones improvised or tweaked much of his dialogue, including 'hinky' and the chocolate donut with sprinkles; every great line is his, called his Mona Lisa.