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Johnny Eager
I know this has been posted before among the very first things that had been posted on this section but i guess i'll emphasize it again. I have just recently read a few comments on this movie on IMBD about the intercation between Robert Taylor ( Johnny Eager) and Van Heflin who won an Oscar for his role. Van Heflin's acting is higly analyzed in the context of his character that seems almost passionately in love with the main character, his lines displaying hints about it. Among those things his two unusual crying scenes are brought in discussion as showing anguish and longing far beyond what was accepted at those times as far as friendship between men went. I think those two scenes are amazing for the vividness and sincerity of what is shown in terms of emotions at a time when men's vulnerability was higly subdued and concealed. I still can't believe this was possible in the 40' and i'm happy to see that those things were put on display even at those times..what a magnificent beauty !
( the crying part starts at 6;25)
( at 13:28)
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''I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!''
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Re: Johnny Eager
Great real tears from him. I like you can tell he is really crying because tears always fall first
"...men do not cry. They will do anything BUT cry. They stop themselves crying. And eventually they do cry if it is bad enough. So that's how you know with a man how bad it is for him. Because he would've stopped himself...Men always cry like that. They don't cry and in the end they do and if they do then it's overwhelming." ~Michael Caine
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Re: Johnny Eager
Another old gem from Van Heflin, in times crying men were very scarce :
( the crying starts at 1:59:00)
And at 54 :00 there s a close up ofhis eyes filling with tears. ( too bad this is dubbed in portuguesse )
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''I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!''
Woody Harrelson
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From Actof Violence
''I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!''
Woody Harrelson
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