If one wanted to study Walken, in which movies is he at his worst/best?

[DS1]

You know, the Walken pacing of talking, for impressions

[Az]

1. The Comfort of Strangers

A relatively unknown movie in the states. But a great example of Walken's work.

If you want to see an example of great Walken impersonation catch the movie Blood and Donuts. One of the main characters for an unexplained reasons spends most of the movie talking like Walken. Its a good movie too boot.

[DS1]

2. interesting

:D

[wildhorses]

3. The Deer Hunter....best

and although the movie was cute Walken pretty much mailed in his performance in "Blast From the Past" IMHO

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[ps1074]

19. I agree

The Deer Hunter...

[Splatter Phoenix]

4. BWAHA.

Not Sleepy Hollow. He says two words. "Shhh" and "rrraar."
Prophecy is good, all three of them (or is it Prophesy..)
Catch Me If You Can is...eh, he's okay..don't see much of him.
Stepford Wives...eh, as well, I dunno. He's IN it, and he's pretty good..

Hell, Walken is Walken. XD

[nytemare]

7. Yeah, I was thinking about Sleepy Hollow and how he only had a half word.

and spiky long black hair, and filed teeth. Oh, and freaky blue contacts.

He has Bowie eyes, two different colors. I read that a couple of weeks ago.

[Splatter Phoenix]

9. He was ooooh so sexy.

But underused and disappointing. He was the main reason I BOUGHT that movie...

What colors, do you know? o.o

[nytemare]

12. I just googled it. Blue and hazel.

:)

[nytemare]

5. For impressions, probably the SNL video.

I think he exhaggerated the pauses. I laugh so hard at those skits.

I think his best was Deer Hunter and Dead Zone. A recent sort of less known flick that came out on dvd is Around the Bend. That is really a good movie.

Suicide Kings and Pulp Fiction would be good for impressions, though.

[knowbody0]

6. prophecy 1, and 2

i laughed my ass off.

[jus_the_facts]

8. Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead.....

...."he's just a fuckin' HEAD!" :wow:


He was a hoot in America's Sweethearts and always hilarious on SNL! :D

[AtomicKitten]

10. True Romance

The scene with he and Hopper was brilliant.

[nytemare]

11. Here is Walken reading "The Raven"

This, well, is sort of funny.

http://www.ojai.net/swanson/theraven.htm

[JVS]

14. LOL!

Wicked guitar dude!

[nytemare]

16. After hearing that, it seems that he always speaks like he

is reading a poem.

:)

[Jara sang]

13. I liked him Brainstorm

Natalie Woods last film too

[radwriter0555]

15. You should try to view his video appearance in Fatboy Slim's

Weapon of Choice from 1985. His tapdance around a hotel is MIND BOGGLING....

But "King of New York" is probably his most compelling performance of all.

And he's not running for president.

[MrScorpio]

20. See it here

http://www.astralwerks.com/fbs/woc/

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. Walken started out as a song and dance guy, he's an awesome

dancer.

Another great dance performance by Walken is in the Steve Martin version of "Pennies from Heaven".
http://imdb.com/title/tt0082894/

http://www.ojai.net/swanson/biography.htm

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Haha, I need to read more closely

I recommended the Fatboy Slim video for dance as well, but I was beaten to it.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

17. Annie Hall.

[Giant Robot]

18. The Suicide Kings

Excellent Walken

[DanCa]

21. Wasn't he Max Shrek in Batman two?

That was pretty horrid.

[patricia92243]

23. Biloxi Blues n/t

[MountainLaurel]

25. Ditto that

Just watched it last night. He so captured the psychosis of an Army sergeant at basic training.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

24. "King of New York"

is probably my favorite Walken performance but I'd highly recommend "The Suicide Kings", "Prophecy" & "True Romance" (where he & Dennis Hopper have share an impeccably scripted scene)

[skoppa]

26. Walken is AMAZING in Pulp Fiction.