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Sterling Hayden
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Rewatchables episodes featuring Sterling Hayden’s films
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Hansen reportedly screened The Bad and the Beautiful, In a Lonely Place, The Lineup, Private Hell 36 and Kiss Me Deadly for the cast.
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- Hansen reportedly screened The Bad and the Beautiful, In a Lonely Place, The Lineup, Private Hell 36 and Kiss Me Deadly for the cast. — Andy Greenwald
- Sterling Hayden in The Killing is discussed as an influence on Bud White; the novel’s Bud is much larger.
Casting What-Ifs
Jack Nicholson, Sterling Hayden, and Richard Boone are reported casting alternatives.
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- Jack Nicholson reportedly declined Hooker while predicting the movie would be a hit. — Bill Simmons
- The panel believes Nicholson would have had the charm to succeed in the role. — Bill Simmons
- Sterling Hayden reportedly declined Lonnegan because he would not shave his beard. — Bill Simmons
- Richard Boone is named as another Lonnegan possibility who dropped out. — Bill Simmons
Nerd Corner
Stanley Kubrick's The Killing; The Big Combo and Django for the torture scene; Jean-Pierre Melville's films; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three for the color names; Ringo Lam's City on Fire; John Woo's The Killer for the three-way standoff
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Approx. transcript time · 00:46:43Read transcript
- Nerd Corner is a new category built for one host's reactions: Tarantino is quoted calling the film his take on Kubrick's The Killing rather than a rip-off of it.
- Given thirty seconds on The Killing, he calls it one of the great Sterling Hayden performances with a top-three final shot in movie history, the film that let Kubrick leap from crafty photographer making B pictures to the most significant film artist of his time, and says its traces run throughout Reservoir Dogs. — Sean Fennessey
- Joseph H. Lewis's The Big Combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 Django inspired the cop torture; The Big Combo is fine, Django is a better rewatch after Django Unchained, Tarantino has a relationship with Franco Nero rather than the rights, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has Django-esque flourishes.
- Jean-Pierre Melville's tough-guy French films, Le Cirque La Rouge (as transcribed) and Army of Shadows, are recommended to anyone who loves Reservoir Dogs.
- The color names come from The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3, a great homage with Walter Matthau, and the Denzel remake is not bad; the 1987 film City on Fire is so close that watching it raises whether Tarantino is good or just stole it, the one complicated thing about him, with critics saying he ripped off seven movies rather than paying homage.
- He calls Tarantino a metatextual artist and himself a postmodernist. — Chris Ryan
- Tarantino is not interested in human beings so much as weaving pre-existing stories together; City on Fire is a cool movie, Reservoir Dogs is a masterpiece; the three-way standoff is traced to John Woo films such as The Killer.
Casting What-Ifs
Robert Duvall, Lee Marvin, Sterling Hayden and alternative Hoopers
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- Duvall reportedly wanted Quint rather than Brody, but was considered too young for Quint. — Bill Simmons
- Duvall as Brody draws mixed reactions, including disagreement about whether he seems New York enough. — Bill Simmons
- Marvin and Hayden reportedly turned down Quint; Hayden is received enthusiastically. — Bill Simmons
- Reed is another reported Quint alternative; the proposed Voight Hooper casting prompts relief that it did not happen. — Bill Simmons
- Kline as Hooper is considered workable. — Bill Simmons
- Heston is considered too commanding for Brody; Bottoms, Gray and Bridges are Hooper possibilities, with Gray judged strange. — Sean Fennessey
- Heston reportedly resented the rejection and said he would not work with Spielberg. — Bill Simmons
- Hayden’s tax situation is given as the reason he could not take Quint. — Bill Simmons
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Films in the archive
9 to 5
1980
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
The Godfather
1972