Posted: 6/5/2014 4:57:17 PM EDT
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A good short article about a hell of a director, himself the subject of recent documentary. Excerpted for COC. The 70-year-old filmmaker is an authentic rebel and a true son of liberty."I’ve been blacklisted as much as anyone in the ’50s,” says John Milius in the absorbing new documentary "Milius,” an aptly blusterous teddy bear of a movie directed by Joey Figueroa and Zak Knutson. Milius, a self-described "Zen anarchist,” scripted some of the best films of the 1970s: "Jeremiah Johnson” (adapted from a novel by the cranky Idaho Old Rightist Vardis Fisher), "Apocalypse Now” (its title taken, explains Milius, from a button he had minted in the 1960s to mock the hippies’ "Nirvana Now” slogan), and "Dillinger” (starring the "constitutional anarchist” Warren Oates). His uncredited work includes "Dirty Harry”’s "Do you feel lucky?” street interrogation and Robert Shaw’s selachian monologue on the fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in "Jaws.” He completed the transition from colorful character to pariah, the documentary suggests, with "Red Dawn” (1984), which Milius cowrote and directed. Despite the ludicrous premise, the film is filled with entertaining extended middle fingers (the occupiers use registration records to locate gun owners, among them the great Harry Dean Stanton, and throw them into re-education camps) that left conventional reviewers sputtering. I despise Milius’s hero, Teddy Roosevelt, and I’ll bet we’ve never once cast a ballot for the same presidential candidate, but in our age of cringing yes-men and gutless herd-followers, who cannot admire a man who once explained himself to his fellow screenwriters: "I’ve suffered loss in my career for not being obedient. Believe me, the loss was little compared to the fear all you elite stomach every day. When the sun sets, I can sing ‘My Way’ with Elvis, Frank Sinatra, and Richard Nixon. What is your anthem?” And hell, I haven’t even mentioned "Geronimo,” "The Wind and the Lion,” or "Conan the Barbarian.” He's also the inspiration for this guy:  |
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Directed by 2 friends of mine....Zak and Joey....from The Chop Shop.... it's a good docu Quoted:
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The documentary Milius is on Netflix, it's well worth watching. Directed by 2 friends of mine....Zak and Joey....from The Chop Shop.... it's a good docu Serious? Very cool. Let them know it's Arf-approved. I'm sure they'll be very proud. 
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Though personally close to the Midasian trio of Spielberg, Lucas, and Coppola, his firearm-based antics (such as bringing a loaded .45 to a meeting with a studio executive), as much as the masculine rite-of-passage motifs in his films, seemed to place him in that unpledged fraternity of directors with decidedly non-liberal politics: Michael Cimino, Walter Hill, Ron Maxwell, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Oliver Stone. Wat |
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Directed 'Flight of the Intruder' -- Possibly the best Vietnam movie made. I have never grown tired of watching it. Milius shipped two 'Spads' to Hawaii onboard a Matson liner to film in his air extraction scene, and the flight footage was later reworked for the movie 'We Were Soldiers Once', and others. "Don't ask a man if he's a fighter pilot! If he is -- He'll tell you. If he's not, you'll just embarass him!" |
| I never knew he suffered a stroke. Amazing how skeet and trap shooting is helping him. I see him as a man of passion. Something many in our society don't have. He is a man of times gone by and I'm proud to say that I am somewhat like him on that very issue. That morals and personality come from story and it is what shapes you. He was shaped by stories of TR and cowboys. I was shaped by similar stories. Some told by him. |
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A good short article about a hell of a director, himself the subject of recent documentary. Excerpted for COC. [div style='margin-left: 40px;'][div style='margin-left: 40px;'] The 70-year-old filmmaker is an authentic rebel and a true son of liberty.[div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']"I’ve been blacklisted as much as anyone in the ’50s,” says John Milius in the absorbing new documentary "Milius,” an aptly blusterous teddy bear of a movie directed by Joey Figueroa and Zak Knutson. [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']Milius, a self-described "Zen anarchist,” scripted some of the best films of the 1970s: "Jeremiah Johnson” (adapted from a novel by the cranky Idaho Old Rightist Vardis Fisher), "Apocalypse Now” (its title taken, explains Milius, from a button he had minted in the 1960s to mock the hippies’ "Nirvana Now” slogan), and "Dillinger” (starring the "constitutional anarchist” Warren Oates). His uncredited work includes "Dirty Harry”’s "Do you feel lucky?” street interrogation and Robert Shaw’s selachian monologue on the fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in "Jaws.” [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']He completed the transition from colorful character to pariah, the documentary suggests, with "Red Dawn” (1984), which Milius cowrote and directed. [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']Despite the ludicrous premise, the film is filled with entertaining extended middle fingers (the occupiers use registration records to locate gun owners, among them the great Harry Dean Stanton, and throw them into re-education camps) that left conventional reviewers sputtering. [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']I despise Milius’s hero, Teddy Roosevelt, and I’ll bet we’ve never once cast a ballot for the same presidential candidate, but in our age of cringing yes-men and gutless herd-followers, who cannot admire a man who once explained himself to his fellow screenwriters: "I’ve suffered loss in my career for not being obedient. Believe me, the loss was little compared to the fear all you elite stomach every day. When the sun sets, I can sing ‘My Way’ with Elvis, Frank Sinatra, and Richard Nixon. What is your anthem?” [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']And hell, I haven’t even mentioned "Geronimo,” "The Wind and the Lion,” or "Conan the Barbarian.” [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-milius-a-real-wolverine/ He's also the inspiration for this guy: http://rossclurman.com/images/blog/walter_sobchak.jpg why dont you like TR? also, what movie is that guy with the gun from/? |
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Quoted: why dont you like TR? also, what movie is that guy with the gun from/? Quoted: Quoted: A good short article about a hell of a director, himself the subject of recent documentary. Excerpted for COC. [div style='margin-left: 40px;'][div style='margin-left: 40px;'] The 70-year-old filmmaker is an authentic rebel and a true son of liberty.[div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']"I’ve been blacklisted as much as anyone in the ’50s,” says John Milius in the absorbing new documentary "Milius,” an aptly blusterous teddy bear of a movie directed by Joey Figueroa and Zak Knutson. [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']Milius, a self-described "Zen anarchist,” scripted some of the best films of the 1970s: "Jeremiah Johnson” (adapted from a novel by the cranky Idaho Old Rightist Vardis Fisher), "Apocalypse Now” (its title taken, explains Milius, from a button he had minted in the 1960s to mock the hippies’ "Nirvana Now” slogan), and "Dillinger” (starring the "constitutional anarchist” Warren Oates). His uncredited work includes "Dirty Harry”’s "Do you feel lucky?” street interrogation and Robert Shaw’s selachian monologue on the fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in "Jaws.” [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']He completed the transition from colorful character to pariah, the documentary suggests, with "Red Dawn” (1984), which Milius cowrote and directed. [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']Despite the ludicrous premise, the film is filled with entertaining extended middle fingers (the occupiers use registration records to locate gun owners, among them the great Harry Dean Stanton, and throw them into re-education camps) that left conventional reviewers sputtering. [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']I despise Milius’s hero, Teddy Roosevelt, and I’ll bet we’ve never once cast a ballot for the same presidential candidate, but in our age of cringing yes-men and gutless herd-followers, who cannot admire a man who once explained himself to his fellow screenwriters: "I’ve suffered loss in my career for not being obedient. Believe me, the loss was little compared to the fear all you elite stomach every day. When the sun sets, I can sing ‘My Way’ with Elvis, Frank Sinatra, and Richard Nixon. What is your anthem?” [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']And hell, I haven’t even mentioned "Geronimo,” "The Wind and the Lion,” or "Conan the Barbarian.” [div style='margin-left: 40px;'] [div style='margin-left: 40px;']http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-milius-a-real-wolverine/ He's also the inspiration for this guy: http://rossclurman.com/images/blog/walter_sobchak.jpg why dont you like TR? also, what movie is that guy with the gun from/? |
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Quoted: AKSIg, judging by your avatar, you should probably recognize the directors Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Somebody should make a documentary about this guy. AKSIg, judging by your avatar, you should probably recognize the directors  |
