I really miss Dennis. He lived around the corner from my brother's restaurant in Venice Beach and ate there often. To say he was a unique character would be an understatement. He was also brilliant and came from and age in Hollywood we'll never see again.
Why are commentators on TH-cam so utterly vacuous that they can't make any comment without saying something is the "best ever"? To say that Dennis Hopper is "one of the smartest people ever" is to make a statement of inconceivable stupidity.
What's funny is Dennis Hopper is talking about Marlon Brando here in this interview in a similar way his character in Apocalypse Now would talk about Brando's character
OMEGAxWARRIOR Yeah I noticed that years ago when I first saw this. It was like they weren't acting at all LOL. Life imitates art? Or maybe they just never got out of character.
To have such a bad experience working with him and then to speak of him with such respect and reverence that he does, what a great character this fella had on a personal level 👍
'I shoulda been a pair of ragged claws/scuttling across the floors of silent seas...' How Apocalypse Now ever got made & was a true masterpiece is quite something. I think I've seen the movie close to 100 times now, in several different cuts, and it always feels like a beautiful and terrifying recurring dream... The madness and brilliance of both Hopper and Brando just magnifies and edifies it. You. Totally. Believe. 'The Horror... The Horror...' 😲
@ sonofaseawarrior 1 of my favorite lines, which is very appropriate these days, "There is nothing more that I detest than the stench of lies", Marlon.
It took 3 years. It is probably my favorite movie though. The Godfather and Goodfellas, is up there. They say "Citizen Kane" is the best, followed by Casablanca and "Gone With the Wind".
Have you seen the 5 hour rough ROUGH cut? I managed to watch almost the entire thing on youtube before it got taken down. Truly amazing. There is a scene of Willard, immediately after killing Kurtz, spearing a man through the baby he is holding in front of himself as a shield and then tossing the two aside that is truly repulsive and beautiful at the same time. It's a silhouette shot that reminds me of several scenes from his Dracula. Some of the cut footage from the "Ride of the Valkyries" section is also incredible. Coppola was willing to cut masterful scenes, though, if they hurt the flow of the film. Modern directors could learn a lot from him and his editors.
Hey man...you don't talk to Brando..well....you listen to him.The man has enlarged my mind. He's a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes uh.. well you say hello to him and he will walk right by you and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you and throw you in a corner and say "did you know concentration is the middle word in the method? " I mean.. I'm a little man..he's a great man... uh.. I should have been a nobody actor scuttling across floors of silent dinner theatres...
"It's a long story" "We have nothing but time" So refreshing to hear this after watching mostly late night talkshow clips on TH-cam. Someone who actually has time to hear an in-depth story.
It's cool seeing Hopper be so frank and honest. I have heard the story a few times but never from Hopper directly and he owns up to it. "Yeah i was whacked off my face and tormented the greatest living actor in the World for hours". That says alot about a man. You can be a screw up and own up to it instead of excuses
@@thegadflygang5381 "Honest"? I don't buy that he was talking about the little red services book in his boot for one second. What bullshit. It makes zero sense. There's only one book he was talking about, and i don't blame Brando for refusing to work with the rude little punk.
@@Cosmo-Kramer i like Brando and Hopper although both are train wrecks who would probably annoy the shjt out of me in person IRL. Brando with his self righteousness and Hopper being whacked all the time. What do you think he carrying. Some Marxist or Bolshevik shit? I have read the Manifesto a few times out of curiosity but wearing it in my boot would definitely be a cause to slap the shit out of anyone
1986 was just a good year for Hopper in general. He did Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Hoosiers, which got him an Academy Award nomination and Blue Velvet, which really helped cement he was back. In retrospect, his Academy Award nomination should have been for Blue Velvet and he should have won the Oscar, though that performance was pretty dark to be nominated that time as the films acknowledged in the 80s for film awards were more light hearted compared to the 70s.
Clift and Brando: great choices for greatest film actors, but you’re right up there Dennis. You were great in Apocalypse Now, Speed, Easy Rider, and so many more. Thanks for the memories. 🎬❤️🎬
It was a great show. I still remember him interviewing Bill Murray and had a boombox playing Van Morrison until Bill asked if they could turn it off. Lol ;) Bob was trying hard to appeal to Bill.
@@robbiereilly I remember his interview with Bill Murray about being at Elvis and John Lennon's public funeral and it was absolutely riveting. I never forgot it.
Brando showed up on the set of Apocalypse Now overweight and unprepared, held up the shooting for 2 weeks, and then proceeded to give a brilliant performance. No one else could have played Col Kurtz.
DHwas the bomb. He was a lunatic in Apocalypse Now & his performance was awesomeness! I loved him in True Romance the character was right up his alley. He was a total trip & I miss the man.
Super Mario Bros. is a great bad movie. It's really entertaining if you ignore that it's based on the video game franchise, just put it on sit back and have a good laugh at it. I love Bob Hoskins too. I really miss all these actors that I grew up watching. Most of the actors of today don't hold a candle to the classic ones.
That movie was quite a mess though. But Hopper is always great. It's like when your own vehicle has been running like a total mess but then you bring it down to be serviced by the experienced hands at Jiffy Lube™
I loved Apocalypse Now on the big screen during its premiere, but I must add that Mrs. C.’s documentary is an essential companion to the film, and in some ways sheds light on a very dark time.
I agree. Almost as essential a companion to the film, as is the essential companion you'll find when you bring your vehicle to be serviced by the experienced hands at your local Jiffy Lube™
+Izaak Gray True, he could be very charming and cool when he wanted to be. He'd straightened himself out by the time this interview was done (late 80's). Too bad he never got to write any kind of memoir.
Thanks. One thing the haters can't deny - he actually went way out of his way to help someone other than himself: Native Americans. He had no dog in that fight, but he tried to help them in his own, grandiose way. How many people have the courage to do that? And how rare is that? He tried to be a good man, at least once in his life, and that's more than most people. Compare that to just about any other major Hollywood star - they just take the money and run.
Wow, in retrospect these Bob Costas shows were such treasures. No late night shows except Tavis Smiley have adult, in-depth discussions with their guests the way Costas does, and Tavis isn't as good at it.
+steve conn I agree. I remember his interview with Paul Simon. Costas is a huge fan, and knew many of his lyrics intimately, and Simon was just flummoxed. It was great TV.
Agree. Costas is one of the best interviewers. He and Cavett. Check out Bob's interviews with Paul McCartney, Mickey Mantle and Audrey Meadows, to name a few. Real gems.
"Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse" is an excellent documentary on the making of the film, for those who don't know. It must have been absolute hell to make. I sure do miss Dennis Hopper.
We may not have a proper memoir of Mr Hopper but we know he sure had one heck of a ride, almost as legendary as the ride you could have should you bring your vehicle to be serviced by the experienced hands at Jiffy Lube™
YEP.....MIS- PLANNING..I WARNED FRANCIS & THE PRODUCERS OF THE BAD WEATHER, TYPHOONS, MARCOS, ETC...& FRANCIS SAID:.."WHAT ARE YOU, A FUCKING WEATHERMAN?"..& I SAID TO FRANCIS: "IVE BEEN CALLED WORSE THINGS BY BETTER PEOPLE, FRANCIS"..JACK ENGLISH, LOCATION SCOUT ON "APOCALYPSE NOW", (&"GODFATHER, PART 2")
Brando wrecked movies and sucked for the last 20 years of his career. All this blind love for his acting, when most of what we call his great acting was many many years before his cue card reading, f**k ups.
@@kb9788 Speaking for myself personally, it's not "blind love" at all. He was a really interesting and intelligent dude. Quite a weirdo, in a good way. Also did some undeniably great acting. It's easy to talk shit from behind a computer screen, but I bet you couldn't do what Brando did on stage and screen.
Long before I finally saw him in "Easy Rider" I had seen him in "Blue Velvet". I didn't know for years later he was in "Apocalypse Now" (and "Rebel Without a Cause") and so I had a sort of reverse idea of him. People trashed him for Blue Velvet saying he's just doing his Easy Rider shtick, and I'd never seen him before.
@@ruly8153 He said something like "Mr Dean wears the jacket I wore last year, rides the bike I rode last year, and makes the films that I made last year"
ya we miss ya Dennis your time less you crazy guy ...good stuff lost intervews save on VHS and transfer befor they are gone thankyou sir for your time in transfering this stuff to to days fletting meada
I read back then they had script reading meetings. He charged 70k to sit and have dinner while another person would read the script and his lines. So if he decided to do the film he was payed a million a week if he did not like it he took the 70k and simply left. He had at least three of these a week and they said out of all of them maybe did 1 film and would just pocket the money. Pretty much was like a 70k meet and greet with directors and writers lol.
@@chatchit2996 Well, there's a few arguments for OP's statement. But I'm more interested in your views, Chat Chit. In your mind - actors and celebrities are not more eccentric and/or weirder than your average tax paying citizen?
Agreed with you again. In addition to his dedication to social causes, I read about Brando was a real friend--not fair weather--to many people such as Maureen Stapleton. Brando's penchant for speaking his mind, unwillingness to compromise and please may cause him troubles because he could easily make enemies. Brando was the victim of his own fame, which has attracted unethical writers writing his biographies, filled with inaccuracies, speculations and lies. He really doesn't deserves these.
Vantheman 12 so many people have not seen that movie. I tell them about it, how great it is, mention the title, and I can then see in their faces, “ah not for me”
@@DanielHBuchmann Funny that Tarrantino still hasn't seen it. But I understand not wanting to ruin the movie you wrote in your head and then seeing it changed in ways he wasn't too happy with. It is a very fun film.
By then Dennis knew how to mold and shape his visual performance with experience, much like the experience we will handle your vehicle at your local Jiffy Lube™.
my condolences to all americans that loved the man and artist , MR. Dennis Hopper...unfortunately, we, the romanians also lost a great actor, the master Jean Constantin, a few days ago (R.I.P.) :(((!!! R.I.P. Dennis Lee Hopper ( may 17, 1936 - may 29, 2010)...STAY STRONG AMERICA!!!
+Cloud Dweller I've read hundreds of books. I'm of Italian/Native-American/Scottish descent so no bias here. Anyway - Yes, the Berbers, later called Moors (Berber refers to a whole lot of different and wide-spread peoples across North Africa at the time) And the Sarcen darker Moors did as well, Arabs that were most definitely dark, I wouldn't say "black" in the meaning of African descent but moreso middle-Eastern Arab also called Sarcens beginning around 827 (about 200 years AFTER the Berbers) and they ruled all of Sicily by 907. Either way, Berbers were definitely not white though perhaps lighter than the latter Sarcens. BOTH of whom did indeed mix racially with Sicily. Sure, they ran many masses out but the bloodlines were already mixed by then and hence the reference made by Hopper to Walken in "True Romance".
Obsidian Wolf They are NOT Negoes.note how Berbers allow FEW if ANY into their countries. I have forgotten more books than you have read.and I grew up in a black URBAN jungle..in huge American city...I know.
I got to meet Dennis in St Petersburg,Russia in 2006..He and Julien Schnable were opening a show at the Hermitage Museum ..i shook his hand and ask if I could get a photo with him..He said '"sure"..I handed the camera to Schnable and he took it...great moment in my lifetime
Brando was an acting genuis. Elia Kazan, the oscar winning director, claimed in his lifetime the only acting genuis he had ever encountered was Brando. Kazan himself was a good actor. People who criticize his private life don't even know him. I have never believed that he didn't treat his daughter well or any of maliceous speculations. I always believe Brando was a nice person based on his support of powerless peoples. Brando's sensitivity certainly reflected his soul.
The scene in Apocalypse Now where Marlon is reading the 'Hollow Man' and Dennis goes off on a tangent about 'no maybes, no supposes' etc etc is amazing, it turns out that it was real and unscripted and when Marlon throws the bananas at Dennis and calls him a mutt it is real. I think Dennis was so spaced out at that point in his life he was unable to relate to in anyway and Marlon just couldnt take it bieng in his presence. Francis casting Dennis in that role however was perfect for the film...
@@jackrenglish Dennis was a great x factor for Brando I'm sure . I bet the ambience there on set was as surreal as the film ! Wasn't one of the sets totally destroyed by a typhoon? Manic depressive weather aligned with Coppolas temperament lol
@@rolanddeschain965 yea it was the helicopter scene set .. also the original theatrical release had like 10 minutes of airstrike footage destruction of Kurtz compound at the end . I saw it when released in 79. As trivia , noone knows what happened to the Rolex with no bezel Brando wore .
@@morfeophantasm7435 I was 11 when this came out , me and a friend went and bought tickets to a movie called Xanadu then went into apocalypse now. They still had ushers back then and 3 different times that guy sent us back to xanadu.....God what a terrible movie. Olivia Newton John was cute but damn it!!!
Ive seen thousands of movies over most genres from the silent era until present day (romcoms excluded, i draw the line there) i can honestly say Apocalypse now is in my top 5 favourites possibly even top 3, its a sublime piece of film making and acting, funny thing is, i seen it first in the cinema with the redux re-release and although I did enjoy it i didn't see the big fascination about it from what I had heard, then when I picked it up on dvd and gave it another viewing then it clicked in to view, a masterpiece.
I want to see now a new adaptation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. great text, more and more relevant today when corporate power is fused with military power and the state, while the victims are more and more oppressed
What great behind the scenes story that obviously Dennis had not shared with very many people....as to the Red Book...we had one in Force Recon too when I was in The Corps in the early 70's...we called it the little Red Monster and was definitely classified.
In my humble opinion ...just what I know...Dennis Hopper is being very gracious here...Hopper is a slight weirdo but actually he is very underrated as an actor...on the other hand....... Brando is / was an ass. Hopper just very slightly touched on that..........and was very non judgmental. That's a very classy move. Props to Dennis Hopper!!!!!! I like that guy.
Sharkbiteleft Yes, but Hopper could be just as bad , if not worse, than Brando. He had an auteur complex about himself as a director and it cost him a career that he only regained after he sobered up
I really like Dennis Hopper too. I must say, however, that he was a very under rated weirdo as well. On the same general level as Hunter Thompson. Very accomplished, and under rated weirdos. This is a much less interesting planet without them.
That's a great moment at the very end when Coppola's trying to explain to Dennis what the scene's about and he keeps interrupting him. Coppola gets so frustrated - "We'll I'd tell you but you don't let me talk for more than a fucking second!" Classic manic Hopper.
Part of what made Brando so great is the fact he didnt really prepare for the roles he played.. he showed up to the set.. got the idea of what was going on in the movie.. saw the situation first hand then started to think about what he was going to do..... and to be fair what he did and said in the movie was perfect. Couldnt have done it better.
A few years back I actually chartered a boat in Laos and cruised up the Mekong to near the Chinese border and wound up in the actual village that the guy they based Colonel Kurtz and his Hmong army on was based out of. Other than the fact that I never got speared or took acid during a battle at night or bumped into some playboy bunnies it was astonishingly nothing like the movie at all lol. Didn’t stop me from repeatedly playing “The End” by the Doors on my Bluetooth speaker though….
@@brianholtzmusicsound yes but the village in northern Laos that I ended up in was where the CIA colonel they based Marlon Brandis character on had his base of operations apparently…
He was so scary in that. When he said "I'll fuck anything that moves" you almost feel like we do when we feel like we can service any vehicle with quality and experience at Jiffy Lube™
Brando had a demeanor of his own , and was an incredible but I could not imagine him being in blue velvet. Give me the performance that Dennis Hopper did because Dennis Hopper was crazy for the part 👃 🍚 rip :(
RIP Dennis Hopper you along with Brando had some of cinema's most memorable characters and performances.
And while no longer as acceptable... the best Nike commercials ever.
"Do you hear the foot steps "?
Finding videos like this is why I love this website.
TH-cam is my favorite website hands down !
SimplyLimbo TH-cam is a pool of crap that eventually brings jewels like this
@@SimplyLimboI'll second that emotion.
@skin09588 yes shit head it is
Was just thinking the same thing!!! Spot On!!
I really miss Dennis. He lived around the corner from my brother's restaurant in Venice Beach and ate there often. To say he was a unique character would be an understatement. He was also brilliant and came from and age in Hollywood we'll never see again.
YEP
@@jackrenglish Thank you for your eloquence and indispensable contribution - NOT.
Costas was such a great interviewer because he actually let the guests talk without interruption. Great, great interview with DH.
There will never be another like Hopper and I love how he knew the dynamics of creating art on screen in his bones
When they cut to a commercial, Charlie Rose came out of the bathroom totally naked with a double order of foie gras balanced on his nutsack....
Dennis Hopper was such a force. An astonishing actor, maverick. One of the smartest people ever.
Why are commentators on TH-cam so utterly vacuous that they can't make any comment without saying something is the "best ever"? To say that Dennis Hopper is "one of the smartest people ever" is to make a statement of inconceivable stupidity.
No, not one of the smartest people ever!
That's right. Like Al Pacino. It is rude to say they are merely actors. They are living beings living these roles demonstrating their gift,
he’s a fraud and retarded just watch heart of darkness
What's funny is Dennis Hopper is talking about Marlon Brando here in this interview in a similar way his character in Apocalypse Now would talk about Brando's character
OMEGAxWARRIOR Yeah I noticed that years ago when I first saw this. It was like they weren't acting at all LOL. Life imitates art? Or maybe they just never got out of character.
Maybe somewhere out there they are both together acting out the scenes again, just for old time sake…
OMEGAxWARRIOR In the infinitesimalness of the universe, I'm sure they are.
"What are they going to say about him? What? Are they going to say he was a kind man? He was a wise man? He had plans? He had wisdom? Bullshit, man!"
OMEGAxWARRIOR LOL yes
You put Brando, Hopper, Duvall, and Sheen in a movie, you're asking for epic.
Yes, and Copolla nearly lost his mind dealing with all of them!
***** Indeed ;o)
EPIC, indeed.
J Wunder You have to be crazy to work in the industry
You forgot Harrison Ford...he was there too.
Rip Dennis Hopper. It's been many years since but you are missed
To have such a bad experience working with him and then to speak of him with such respect and reverence that he does, what a great character this fella had on a personal level 👍
'I shoulda been a pair of ragged claws/scuttling across the floors of silent seas...'
How Apocalypse Now ever got made & was a true masterpiece is quite something. I think I've seen the movie close to 100 times now, in several different cuts, and it always feels like a beautiful and terrifying recurring dream... The madness and brilliance of both Hopper and Brando just magnifies and edifies it.
You. Totally. Believe.
'The Horror... The Horror...' 😲
@ sonofaseawarrior 1 of my favorite lines, which is very appropriate these days, "There is nothing more that I detest than the stench of lies", Marlon.
🤣😂
It took 3 years. It is probably my favorite movie though. The Godfather and Goodfellas, is up there. They say "Citizen Kane" is the best, followed by Casablanca and "Gone With the Wind".
Have you seen the 5 hour rough ROUGH cut? I managed to watch almost the entire thing on youtube before it got taken down. Truly amazing. There is a scene of Willard, immediately after killing Kurtz, spearing a man through the baby he is holding in front of himself as a shield and then tossing the two aside that is truly repulsive and beautiful at the same time. It's a silhouette shot that reminds me of several scenes from his Dracula.
Some of the cut footage from the "Ride of the Valkyries" section is also incredible. Coppola was willing to cut masterful scenes, though, if they hurt the flow of the film. Modern directors could learn a lot from him and his editors.
Same here man, I'm easy well into double digits viewing AN.. it's an astonishing movie on so many levels.
Dennis Hopper was a very good looking guy & seems so relatable. Gone too soon too. RIP Dennis Hopper. You were also a great actor.
Hey man...you don't talk to Brando..well....you listen to him.The man has enlarged my mind. He's a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes uh.. well you say hello to him and he will walk right by you and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you and throw you in a corner and say "did you know concentration is the middle word in the method? " I mean.. I'm a little man..he's a great man... uh.. I should have been a nobody actor scuttling across floors of silent dinner theatres...
martinishot brilliant fucking post!
martinishot do you know that "if" is a middle word in "life"?
Colonel Kurtz I do now
martinishot awesome
Who are you?
"It's a long story"
"We have nothing but time"
So refreshing to hear this after watching mostly late night talkshow clips on TH-cam. Someone who actually has time to hear an in-depth story.
And unbiased
It's cool seeing Hopper be so frank and honest. I have heard the story a few times but never from Hopper directly and he owns up to it. "Yeah i was whacked off my face and tormented the greatest living actor in the World for hours".
That says alot about a man. You can be a screw up and own up to it instead of excuses
@@thegadflygang5381 "Honest"? I don't buy that he was talking about the little red services book in his boot for one second. What bullshit. It makes zero sense. There's only one book he was talking about, and i don't blame Brando for refusing to work with the rude little punk.
@@Cosmo-Kramer i like Brando and Hopper although both are train wrecks who would probably annoy the shjt out of me in person IRL. Brando with his self righteousness and Hopper being whacked all the time.
What do you think he carrying. Some Marxist or Bolshevik shit? I have read the Manifesto a few times out of curiosity but wearing it in my boot would definitely be a cause to slap the shit out of anyone
@@thegadflygang5381 I think Hopper knows he was out of line, and that's why he still idolizes Brando.
Thank you David Lynch, for jump-starting Hopper's career again, with Blue Velvet. And thank you Dennis, for surpassing Lynch's expectations.
Interesting enough, it was in Neil Youngs goofie movie 'Human Highway" that caught David lynches eyes of both Hopper and Dean Stockwell
Ryan Settani I never knew that. Was just watching a vid of Neil talking about Clapton & Stills.
He has really good stories from that too.
1986 was just a good year for Hopper in general. He did Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Hoosiers, which got him an Academy Award nomination and Blue Velvet, which really helped cement he was back. In retrospect, his Academy Award nomination should have been for Blue Velvet and he should have won the Oscar, though that performance was pretty dark to be nominated that time as the films acknowledged in the 80s for film awards were more light hearted compared to the 70s.
"Don't love her neighbor." ;-)
Love Dennis Hopper. Great actor and had some of the best and funniest stories i ever heard that he told on other talk shows.
I love Dennis since I saw him on "Giant" and I was about 10 years old. He is one the greatest of all times.
Dennis also enjoyed some of the greatest savings of all time when he had his vehicle serviced at Jiffy Lube™
Clift and Brando: great choices for greatest film actors, but you’re right up there Dennis. You were great in Apocalypse Now, Speed, Easy Rider, and so many more. Thanks for the memories. 🎬❤️🎬
I met Hopper in the late 80's in Glenwood Sprgs CO. He looked very healthy and was polite to me.
It's difficult to believe that he's gone.
There's something I always loved about Dennis' open-palmed gesturing.
i love dennis hopper as an actor!
there is something special about him.
Almost as special at the savings and service at Jiffy Lube™
One of the great actors, I wish he was still with us.
Later with Bob Costas was such a great show. One of the best interviewers of all time.
It was a great show. I still remember him interviewing Bill Murray and had a boombox playing Van Morrison until Bill asked if they could turn it off. Lol ;) Bob was trying hard to appeal to Bill.
@@robbiereilly I remember his interview with Bill Murray about being at Elvis and John Lennon's public funeral and it was absolutely riveting. I never forgot it.
Dennis along with Marty Sheen are probably two of the most underrated actors of all time.
And Ryan reynolds.
i concur, they might be in a suspect film, but they're always good
HARRY STANTON
How are they underrated??? They were huge in their day and memorable.
Brando showed up on the set of Apocalypse Now overweight and unprepared, held up the shooting for 2 weeks, and then proceeded to give a brilliant performance. No one else could have played Col Kurtz.
NOPE..GENE HACKMAN, JAMES COLBURN, STEVE MCQUEEN, ROD STEIGER, JAMES CAAN, ROBERT DUVALL, ETC...JE
CLINT EASTWOOD...JE
@@jackrenglish Are you ok sir?
I disagree. But then again, I didn't think much of this movie when it came out... and I still think it is pretty much crap.
I didnt like Brando in this. He damages the film. I didnt buy him at all as kurtz
Its so touching to hear of Hopper defending James Dean, even after all of the years of him being gone.
DHwas the bomb. He was a lunatic in Apocalypse Now & his performance was awesomeness! I loved him in True Romance the character was right up his alley. He was a total trip & I miss the man.
@drealmerz7 z yeah, and the dude in the phone booth
The sighing, the pauses. Damn, Hooper was in awe of Brando. Really cool to see that reaction.
I always liked Dennis hopper. Seemed humble and intelligent
YEP. JE
Hopper nailed it as king koopa
bingo!
Hahahahaha!
Yeah. The actors in that movie was great but the movie was horrible in a sense that there wasn’t much relatable to the video game.
Super Mario Bros. is a great bad movie. It's really entertaining if you ignore that it's based on the video game franchise, just put it on sit back and have a good laugh at it. I love Bob Hoskins too. I really miss all these actors that I grew up watching. Most of the actors of today don't hold a candle to the classic ones.
That movie was quite a mess though. But Hopper is always great. It's like when your own vehicle has been running like a total mess but then you bring it down to be serviced by the experienced hands at Jiffy Lube™
Apocalypse Now is a legendary film, loaded with legendary actor's ✌️
An actor is not legendary you Forrest Gump bonehead. It’s make-believe.
Yet Brando was illiterate. Still a great actor...
Dennis was one of the greatest actors of all time. Right up unitl he died. I really miss him.
love how honest he is
I loved Apocalypse Now on the big screen during its premiere, but I must add that Mrs. C.’s documentary is an essential companion to the film, and in some ways sheds light on a very dark time.
I agree. Almost as essential a companion to the film, as is the essential companion you'll find when you bring your vehicle to be serviced by the experienced hands at your local Jiffy Lube™
Ride Easy, Dennis 🌹 ❤️ 📺
I really miss him. He'd be close to 90 now but I don't care. Wish he was still here anyways.
Considering his reputation as a violent junkie type I think Hopper is very together and charming in this clip.
+Izaak Gray True, he could be very charming and cool when he wanted to be. He'd straightened himself out by the time this interview was done (late 80's). Too bad he never got to write any kind of memoir.
Peter Biskind wrote about him quite a lot. I mean Peter Biskind has the credit of a dishonest 9 year old girl but his books are still a fun read.
Izaak Gray Hopper has always been charming!! LOVE him, miss him. RIP
Dennis!!
Izaak Gray stop doing drugs and became a Republican, NO bullshit
A lot of people who worked with Hopper after he got clean talked about what a sweetheart he was.
Lovely. Hopper.. he's a great man, man.
Thanks. One thing the haters can't deny - he actually went way out of his way to help someone other than himself: Native Americans. He had no dog in that fight, but he tried to help them in his own, grandiose way. How many people have the courage to do that? And how rare is that? He tried to be a good man, at least once in his life, and that's more than most people. Compare that to just about any other major Hollywood star - they just take the money and run.
Hopper was so brilliant in Apocalypse Now too
BEST PART OF THE MOVIE..JE
Sean Flynn
"Could I uh....have one of those Chesterfield's now?"....
Rusty Kuntz You....you're part Eggplant...
Joe Davola
you got me in a vendetta kind of mood.
Sardo Numspa --Isn’t that the most iconic scene?!? Just coolness multiplied.😎
Awesome
gandolfini slicing his hand was priceless as was the look oh his face
Tracks is such an awesome movie--one of the best war movies I've ever seen that has no combat in it
Brando is God and these actors are just human....!! LOVE YOU MARLON NONE CAN BEAT YOU...!!!!!! LOVE FROM INDIA
Wow, in retrospect these Bob Costas shows were such treasures. No late night shows except Tavis Smiley have adult, in-depth discussions with their guests the way Costas does, and Tavis isn't as good at it.
+steve conn I agree. I remember his interview with Paul Simon. Costas is a huge fan, and knew many of his lyrics intimately, and Simon was just flummoxed. It was great TV.
+steve conn I know, I wish there was some kind of DVD box set of his show, he did so many great interviews.
Agree. Costas is one of the best interviewers. He and Cavett. Check out Bob's interviews with Paul McCartney, Mickey Mantle and Audrey Meadows, to name a few. Real gems.
"Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse" is an excellent documentary on the making of the film, for those who don't know. It must have been absolute hell to make. I sure do miss Dennis Hopper.
Guigley Shame he never wrote a memoir or collaborated on one
We may not have a proper memoir of Mr Hopper but we know he sure had one heck of a ride, almost as legendary as the ride you could have should you bring your vehicle to be serviced by the experienced hands at Jiffy Lube™
Excellent documentary indeed. I realize im replying to an 8 year old post, but ApNo is my fav film of all time, so who's counting.
YEP.....MIS- PLANNING..I WARNED FRANCIS & THE PRODUCERS OF THE BAD WEATHER, TYPHOONS, MARCOS, ETC...& FRANCIS SAID:.."WHAT ARE YOU, A FUCKING WEATHERMAN?"..& I SAID TO FRANCIS: "IVE BEEN CALLED WORSE THINGS BY BETTER PEOPLE, FRANCIS"..JACK ENGLISH, LOCATION SCOUT ON "APOCALYPSE NOW", (&"GODFATHER, PART 2")
"Sometimes he goes too far.... He's the first one to admit it."
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Ah, the heads
Brando wrecked movies and sucked for the last 20 years of his career. All this blind love for his acting, when most of what we call his great acting was many many years before his cue card reading, f**k ups.
@@kb9788
Speaking for myself personally, it's not "blind love" at all. He was a really interesting and intelligent dude. Quite a weirdo, in a good way. Also did some undeniably great acting. It's easy to talk shit from behind a computer screen, but I bet you couldn't do what Brando did on stage and screen.
I would’ve loved to meet Dennis, such a cool dude
YEP..JE
Dennis Hopper always brings to my mind "Easy Rider"
Little known fact: The film's title derived from the serendipitous fact that they had the motor cycles serviced at Jiffy Lube™
Long before I finally saw him in "Easy Rider" I had seen him in "Blue Velvet". I didn't know for years later he was in "Apocalypse Now" (and "Rebel Without a Cause") and so I had a sort of reverse idea of him. People trashed him for Blue Velvet saying he's just doing his Easy Rider shtick, and I'd never seen him before.
Place in the Sun is one of my favorite movies. Brando was incredible in A Streetcar Named Desire.
I admire Dennis Hopper for standing up for his friend James Dean and calling out Brando for being an SOB about him.
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@@swanofnutella4734
What did Brando say about Dean?
He said it all so clean, too fast to live too young to die.
@@ruly8153 He said something like "Mr Dean wears the jacket I wore last year, rides the bike I rode last year, and makes the films that I made last year"
YEP
ya we miss ya Dennis your time less you crazy guy ...good stuff lost intervews save on VHS and transfer befor they are gone thankyou sir for your time in transfering this stuff to to days fletting meada
Plus, a million dollars a week in the late 70's and he hadn't even done any preparation.
But he showed up one day with his head clean shaven and said "I understand him now."
I think it was worth it..
It was a bargain. You got Brando in the movie and you get investors.
Marlon Brando bro
I read back then they had script reading meetings. He charged 70k to sit and have dinner while another person would read the script and his lines. So if he decided to do the film he was payed a million a week if he did not like it he took the 70k and simply left. He had at least three of these a week and they said out of all of them maybe did 1 film and would just pocket the money. Pretty much was like a 70k meet and greet with directors and writers lol.
He prepped..he ate and was gargantuan.. haha...
Now that the TH-cam algo brought me here...
Dennis Hopper was always worth watching, even in a bad movie.
Great actor.
They literally WERE all their characters!!!
I agree with you.
Thank you for sharing your take on Brando. There is no one like him. He is present. Great Interview.
Actors are some of the weirdest people on Earth
So are we.
How you mean?
@@chatchit2996 Well, there's a few arguments for OP's statement. But I'm more interested in your views, Chat Chit.
In your mind - actors and celebrities are not more eccentric and/or weirder than your average tax paying citizen?
If they were normal they'd be accountants (or you).
A true artist, can be nothing but a true artist.
The scene in True Romance with Walken is one of the best scenes ever shot in movie history
GOD GIVE US BACK DENNIS HOPPER IN RETURN WILL GIVE U NANCY GRACE !!!!!
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"You mutt." Brando to Hopper while reading The Hollow Men
Lol
dialectics
that wasnt acting either, brando hated this man
@@bubz4196and kept hating on Burt Reynolds too lol
Agreed with you again. In addition to his dedication to social causes, I read about Brando was a real friend--not fair weather--to many people such as Maureen Stapleton. Brando's penchant for speaking his mind, unwillingness to compromise and please may cause him troubles because he could easily make enemies. Brando was the victim of his own fame, which has attracted unethical writers writing his biographies, filled with inaccuracies, speculations and lies. He really doesn't deserves these.
Agreed. His stand for Native America at the Oscars left an indelible impression on my teenage mind...
Dennis Hopper’s performance in True Romance and the scene with Christopher Walken is so pure. You can see how he was so heavily influenced by Brando.
Vantheman 12 so many people have not seen that movie. I tell them about it, how great it is, mention the title, and I can then see in their faces, “ah not for me”
@@johngorham I show people that scene just to watch their reactions. Tarrantino is fucking brilliant.
@@DanielHBuchmann Funny that Tarrantino still hasn't seen it. But I understand not wanting to ruin the movie you wrote in your head and then seeing it changed in ways he wasn't too happy with. It is a very fun film.
I have to give it up for Hopper for that one. He was amazing in that.
Hopper is that rare 100% legend.
find a clip of him as bowser in the super mario movie
srobinson124
lol, perhaps the defining role of his career ;)
+MAX LAWLESS - Uh, no. Easy Rider (a movie he also directed).
Mᴀx Lᴀᴡʟᴇꜱꜱ Yes he is!!! 😍
@@ShaunPhillipsAV no Frank booth is his defining moment
Damn Dennis looks like a mob boss with the suit, the haircut and the ring
By then Dennis knew how to mold and shape his visual performance with experience, much like the experience we will handle your vehicle at your local Jiffy Lube™.
"Dead friend of mine" was James Dean damn I wish I was there when that happened
I thought so, I thought he was referring to Dean. Cool.
When he crashed his Porsche?
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Coming from a true legend.. RIP
Dennis, a true wild card of cinema, is exposed here as, amazingly, being far less crazy than most of his peers.
As long as they don't go full Kinski it's all good. Never go full Kinski.
R.i.p always to the late Dennis Hopper
my condolences to all americans that loved the man and artist , MR. Dennis Hopper...unfortunately, we, the romanians also lost a great actor, the master Jean Constantin, a few days ago (R.I.P.) :(((!!! R.I.P. Dennis Lee Hopper ( may 17, 1936 - may 29, 2010)...STAY STRONG AMERICA!!!
I miss Hopper, great actor, super cool guy
I miss his drugs.
Cos you...you're part eggplant
Part "moolie' I love it.
The Berbers invaded Sicily and they are White....Morocco/Tunisia.
NOT sub-saharan Africans.Read a book.
+Black Death 1347
Hahhahahahhaha aw beautiful...beautiful!!
+Cloud Dweller I've read hundreds of books. I'm of Italian/Native-American/Scottish descent so no bias here. Anyway -
Yes, the Berbers, later called Moors (Berber refers to a whole lot of different and wide-spread peoples across North Africa at the time) And the Sarcen darker Moors did as well, Arabs that were most definitely dark, I wouldn't say "black" in the meaning of African descent but moreso middle-Eastern Arab also called Sarcens beginning around 827 (about 200 years AFTER the Berbers) and they ruled all of Sicily by 907.
Either way, Berbers were definitely not white though perhaps lighter than the latter Sarcens. BOTH of whom did indeed mix racially with Sicily. Sure, they ran many masses out but the bloodlines were already mixed by then and hence the reference made by Hopper to Walken in "True Romance".
Obsidian Wolf They are NOT Negoes.note how Berbers allow FEW if ANY into their countries.
I have forgotten more books than you have read.and I grew up in a black URBAN jungle..in huge American city...I know.
I got to meet Dennis in St Petersburg,Russia in 2006..He and Julien Schnable were opening a show at the Hermitage Museum ..i shook his hand and ask if I could get a photo with him..He said '"sure"..I handed the camera to Schnable and he took it...great moment in my lifetime
Brando was an acting genuis. Elia Kazan, the oscar winning director, claimed in his lifetime the only acting genuis he had ever encountered was Brando. Kazan himself was a good actor. People who criticize his private life don't even know him. I have never believed that he didn't treat his daughter well or any of maliceous speculations. I always believe Brando was a nice person based on his support of powerless peoples. Brando's sensitivity certainly reflected his soul.
HUH?
this is wonderful on so many levels. thanks for posting
The scene in Apocalypse Now where Marlon is reading the 'Hollow Man' and Dennis goes off on a tangent about 'no maybes, no supposes' etc etc is amazing, it turns out that it was real and unscripted and when Marlon throws the bananas at Dennis and calls him a mutt it is real. I think Dennis was so spaced out at that point in his life he was unable to relate to in anyway and Marlon just couldnt take it bieng in his presence. Francis casting Dennis in that role however was perfect for the film...
DENNIS WAS THE BEST THING IN THE FILM.....THE REST WAS FRANCIS 'S EGO, NUTTY, MANIC DEPRESSIVE CRAZINESS...JE LOCATION SCOUT
@@jackrenglish Dennis was a great x factor for Brando I'm sure . I bet the ambience there on set was as surreal as the film ! Wasn't one of the sets totally destroyed by a typhoon? Manic depressive weather aligned with Coppolas temperament lol
@@morfeophantasm7435 I may wrong but I think that was the helicopter scene most of which wasn't in the theater cut.
@@rolanddeschain965 yea it was the helicopter scene set .. also the original theatrical release had like 10 minutes of airstrike footage destruction of Kurtz compound at the end . I saw it when released in 79. As trivia , noone knows what happened to the Rolex with no bezel Brando wore .
@@morfeophantasm7435 I was 11 when this came out , me and a friend went and bought tickets to a movie called Xanadu then went into apocalypse now. They still had ushers back then and 3 different times that guy sent us back to xanadu.....God what a terrible movie. Olivia Newton John was cute but damn it!!!
Ive seen thousands of movies over most genres from the silent era until present day (romcoms excluded, i draw the line there) i can honestly say Apocalypse now is in my top 5 favourites possibly even top 3, its a sublime piece of film making and acting, funny thing is, i seen it first in the cinema with the redux re-release and although I did enjoy it i didn't see the big fascination about it from what I had heard, then when I picked it up on dvd and gave it another viewing then it clicked in to view, a masterpiece.
what a great actor brando was...
Good Interview!
I want to see now a new adaptation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. great text, more and more relevant today when corporate power is fused with military power and the state, while the victims are more and more oppressed
What great behind the scenes story that obviously Dennis had not shared with very many people....as to the Red Book...we had one in Force Recon too when I was in The Corps in the early 70's...we called it the little Red Monster and was definitely classified.
Sir, thank u for your service. I much appreciated. Dennis and Marlon were bad asses? Weren't they😊
When Brando ego collides with hopper craziness 🤣
dude i fucking love dennis hopper
In my humble opinion ...just what I know...Dennis Hopper is being very gracious here...Hopper is a slight weirdo but actually he is very underrated as an actor...on the other hand....... Brando is / was an ass. Hopper just very slightly touched on that..........and was very non judgmental. That's a very classy move. Props to Dennis Hopper!!!!!! I like that guy.
Sharkbiteleft Yes, but Hopper could be just as bad , if not worse, than Brando. He had an auteur complex about himself as a director and it cost him a career that he only regained after he sobered up
@@jennifersman7990 Good point.
I really like Dennis Hopper too. I must say, however, that he was a very under rated weirdo as well. On the same general level as Hunter Thompson. Very accomplished, and under rated weirdos. This is a much less interesting planet without them.
Oh stfu
Dennis is one of my heros. he was such an original badass.
That's a great moment at the very end when Coppola's trying to explain to Dennis what the scene's about and he keeps interrupting him. Coppola gets so frustrated - "We'll I'd tell you but you don't let me talk for more than a fucking second!" Classic manic Hopper.
gigisdad In fairness, Hopper was so hopped up on coke at that point that it was a small miracle if he could put two coherent sentences together.
Charlie makes you sharp...
but he still don't surf
[uhh.. nor golf, neither]
YEP.....FRANCIS WAS IN A STRANGE PLACE, THEN...JE
THE AMERICAN FRIEND is still one of my favorite films.
The single best scene in any movie I’ve seen, was the interrogation scene in true romance, Dennis hopper and Christopher wauken
Oh yea..classic scene...Walken was great in that to...smiling psycho
YEP
now, the Jiffy Lube ad perked my interest the most,
'n' I love some Dennis Hopper!
"We have nothing but time"! "Sure, sure you do", laughing nervously! We want to hear the story of how you drove Coppola and Brando crazy!
ALREADY CRAZY
Man, I Love This Amazing Actor ❤
I'm sorry. It's a really short book. For a million dollars a week, Brando should have read it. The Horror!
Part of what made Brando so great is the fact he didnt really prepare for the roles he played.. he showed up to the set.. got the idea of what was going on in the movie.. saw the situation first hand then started to think about what he was going to do..... and to be fair what he did and said in the movie was perfect. Couldnt have done it better.
YEP..LAZY..JE
A must watch over and over and over again
A few years back I actually chartered a boat in Laos and cruised up the Mekong to near the Chinese border and wound up in the actual village that the guy they based Colonel Kurtz and his Hmong army on was based out of. Other than the fact that I never got speared or took acid during a battle at night or bumped into some playboy bunnies it was astonishingly nothing like the movie at all lol. Didn’t stop me from repeatedly playing “The End” by the Doors on my Bluetooth speaker though….
You mean Heart of Darkness?
Wasnt the book set in Africa on the Congo river and the movie filmed in the Philipines?
@@brianholtzmusicsound yes but the village in northern Laos that I ended up in was where the CIA colonel they based Marlon Brandis character on had his base of operations apparently…
Absolutely amazing!
I see Frank from Blue Velvet there
He was so scary in that. When he said "I'll fuck anything that moves" you almost feel like we do when we feel like we can service any vehicle with quality and experience at Jiffy Lube™
Fucking Heineken?
This is how I feel about Dennis Hopper
I got five words for everyone, everyone in this world: Brando, Coppola, Hopper, Sheen, Duvall.
Hey don't forget the cinematography by Storaro and editing by Murch et al.
The thing about Marlon Brando, His legacy will live forever...
I can understand Brando not being able to work with Hopper...they're intensities would cancel each other out!
Throw Gary Busey in that mix, you've got a real show.
Destructive interference!
Brando had a demeanor of his own , and was an incredible but I could not imagine him being in blue velvet. Give me the performance that Dennis Hopper did because Dennis Hopper was crazy for the part 👃 🍚 rip :(
Love Dennis Hopper and Marlon Brando :)