Well, this is unexpected:
Well, Dune DID need more cowbell.
In all seriousness, I think he could really pull it off. He’s not who I would have picked. But, he can certainly act.
I wasn’t saying it was a bad choice - just an unexpected one. He can definitely act, and I’m rather curious how it all comes together.
It’s not like Shaddam IV should have a lot of screen time anyway (unless the movie goes in a totally unexpected direction).
The cowbell must flow…
Brian
Let’s just hope he doesn’t feel the need to smuggle any spice off Arrakis.
There’s a Walken without rythm joke in there somewhere
Nah, that’d be dumb
YESSSSS
Like this?
Nah. Walken was a dance major. IMO he got rythm.
Done on Hyperdrive, the excellent Nick Frost show.
Check out the lyrics, though
So, he’s already got rhythm. He’s got music
Can he ask for anything more?
I dunno. Um, to rule all of Humanity, maybe…?
I can’t watch the video right now as I’ve been expecting an important work call for the past hour or so. I’ve also needed to use the restroom for the past hour or so. I look forward to watching the video and visiting the head after work.
Don’t know anything about the younger two, but I completely trust the director’s judgment.
Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your dad’s. We were in that Harkonnen pit of hell together over five years. Hopefully, you’ll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Dad were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, Duke Leto would be talking right now to my son Jim. But the way it turned out is I’m talking to you, Paul. I got something for you
This watch.
… I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the Battle of Corrino. It was bought in a little general store in, I don’t know, somewhere far from Secundus. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches.
It was bought by private Saudarkar Ernie Coolidge on the day he set sail for Poritrin. It was your great-grandfather’s watch and he wore it every day he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed until your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by my father to go and fight the Landsraad once again. This time they called it the Great Spice War.
Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane’s luck wasn’t as good as his old man’s. Dane was a Marine and he was killed, along with the other Marines at the battle of Keynes Bay. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leaving that island alive. So three days before they took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Saudakar transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he’d never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother on Caladan, delivering to your infant father, his dad’s gold watch.
This watch.
This watch was on your daddy’s wrist when he was shot down over Geidi Prime. He was captured, put in a Harkonnen prison camp. He knew if the flameboys ever saw the watch it’d be confiscated, taken away. The way your dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any rabbins were gonna put their greasy, blue-tinged hands on his boy’s birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass.
Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch.
I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family.
And now, little man, I give the watch to you.
Just sayin’… ya may have to rewrite a few details, but that for the script doctors.
Chris Walken is great and when he has the right part, he is incredible. His performance in Seven Psychopaths is amazing.
My favorite scene. Well worth it if you haven’t seen this movie(or if you have).
Anybody else picturing Shaddam IV looking like Walken’s character in Balls of Fury?
I’m picturing the Emperor addressing the Baron like Don Vincenzo in True Romance.