# What is it with Christopher Walken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483 "2003-03-06T14:13:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/41 "2003-03-07T08:50:10Z")
He was great in _Mousehunt_ - playing what for him is a very typical role of a maniac. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/42 "2003-03-07T11:53:41Z")
I liked him as the Trivial Psychic. ---
**Author:** ![Jammers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammers)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/43 "2003-03-07T12:38:08Z")
\*\* Gravity \*\*, > [@](#): > > I will never forget the day that my girlfriend yelled from the living room: “Hon, come here! Christopher Walken is on VH1. He’s dancing in a music video… OH MY GOD, HE’S DOING THE POCKET DANCE!” What on earth is the pocket dance? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/44 "2003-03-07T13:19:09Z")
[Pocket Dance](http://www.astralwerks.com/fbs/woc/). ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/45 "2003-03-07T13:33:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Feynn \* > \*\*Bizarre… > > I was just talking to the weird one himself and he said I reminded him of Christopher Walken in The Dead Zone. > > The guy gives me the heebies. \*\* My husband gives you the heebies? ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/46 "2003-03-07T14:11:00Z")
**UncleBill** , that’s a very cool site. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jammers \* > \*\*\*\* Gravity \*\*, > > What on earth is the pocket dance? \*\* You know, he puts his hands in his pockets and then sorta…dances…while moving them around… I guess you gotta see it. That and the little bit of the Bunny Hop. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/47 "2003-03-07T14:16:53Z")
**Morkfromork said:** > [@](#): > > The thing I can’t stand about him is when he does appear on SNL. I’ve seen him host a couple of times now, and he is easily the worst host I’ve ever seen. You must not have seen the time Wayne Gretzky hosted… ---
**Author:** ![ReBusEniGma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@ReBusEniGma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReBusEniGma)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/48 "2003-03-07T16:11:04Z")
Although not a Walken fan, I have to admit; he did a great job in the two family movies of, ‘Sarah Plain and Tall’ with Glen Close. He was even a little emotional…but even then I have to admit in a vaguely creepy way. My kids love the movies. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/49 "2003-03-07T16:22:23Z")
I hope he wins Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars this year, because I want to see if he starts his acceptance speech, “Two mice fell into a bucket of cream…” ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/50 "2003-03-07T16:49:31Z")
I love him, there’s nothing he can do wrong for me 🙂 Especially his creepy roles, like Max Shreck and the “headed” horseman in Sleepy Hollow (much applause to Ray Park for the headless version.) ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/51 "2003-03-07T17:03:11Z")
When did Walken play Max Shreck? It was Willem Defoe in Shadow of the Vampire (also a great preformance in a great flick). Looking at IMDB, no Schreck, but walken was in both Joe Dirt and Kangaroo Jack? Why? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/52 "2003-03-07T17:08:14Z")
**Menocchio** , Christopher Walken played a different Max Shreck, one of the villains in _Batman Returns_. Actually, he wasn’t nearly as creepy as Defoe in _Shadow of the Vampire_. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/53 "2003-03-07T17:08:17Z")
He was Max Shreck in Batman Returns (sorry for the mix up.) He was a businessman who was very much like a vampire. I liked him in Joe Dirt - he was a Mafia hitman (if I remember right.) ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/54 "2003-03-07T17:15:12Z")
Michael Jackson is creepy. Walken is great! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/55 "2003-03-07T17:32:19Z")
What is with him? Well, he’s totally sexy and hot. Right? Right guys? Isn’t that why everyone likes hiM/ It isn’t? Um, right… me neither. I’m just kidding around. Heh. I fell in love with him in The Dead Zone, then all over again in Nick of Time (totally underrated flic). I think I was about 13 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/56 "2003-03-07T17:58:55Z")
Could someone please explain “cowbell”? And please don’t just say “SNL”. Details, please. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/57 "2003-03-07T18:04:55Z")
Willem Dafoe, not Christopher Walken, played Max Schreck in [Shadow of the Vampire](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0189998) (2000). Walken is an un-creepy family man in real life. He and wife Georgianne have been married since 1969, and have several children. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/58 "2003-03-07T20:39:35Z")
“Cowbell” was an inexplicably funny skit where they were doing a VH1 Behind the Music parody of Blue Oyster Cult. The band was in the studio recording “Don’t Fear the Reaper” and one of the band member’s sole duties was to play a cow bell in the background. Walken was the producer who continuously kept insisting that there be “more cow bell” in the song. Hilarity ensued. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/59 "2003-03-07T20:56:22Z")
The most experience I’ve had with the guy was in his recent appearance on SNL. Oh, man… It SUCKED. Walken was blatantly reading his lines the whole time. That might’ve been okay, had he not been in every 20 minute skit, and just stared somewhere off camera, the WHOLE time. Man! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483/60 "2003-03-07T21:46:55Z")
> [@](#): > > _Skerri says:_ - the weirdo cow-orker that stops at your desk and tells you inane things about his job? I can _totally_ see him orking a cow. Ewwww. 😃 Another big fan, especially of _The Dead Zone, Pennies from Heaven_ and his stellar (though brief) moments in _Annie Hall_. Other films worth mentioning: **The Milagro Beanfield War, King of New York, Biloxi Blues** and **The Comfort of Strangers**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-christopher-walken/159483.md?page=4)