I’ve only seen him on SNL, and I think he’s great. I love “The Continental”. Champagne?
Also, he looks like Death. Deliciously creepy. I need to remember to get one of his movies next time I’m scrounging around the video store and can’t think of anything to rent.
He was great in “Annie Hall.”
I agree with Caricchi, (you do get it) but for a slightly different reason:
<I totally see Christopher Walken as a burned-out pothead version of William Shatner>
For some reason just thinking about him makes me laugh. It is as though he is doing a parody of himself (Shatner) My husband and I have been laughing about that SNL since it was on a couple weeks ago. Not for any skit, but instead the way he pronounced, “Foo…Fighters…are here”
FUNNY!
Christopher Walken is awesome.
Great dancer (have you seen Pennies from Heaven?)
Funny as hell (very dry wit)
deeply moving dramatic actor
spin-chilling villain
very cool indeed!
Another “Deer Hunter” fan here. I’m actually from the pathetic dying steel town depicted in the film.
Walken is very cool.
Walken was actually a trained dancer. He was a dancer before he was an actor (and I love that Fatboy Slim video).
In addition to what’s been mentioned, he had a great small role in Pulp Fiction (Bruce Willis’ childhood flashback). He’s creepy.
The reason Fark has a Walken category is because he actually registered and posted there a few times. If you’re a celebrity and post on Fark, the legions of Farkers will instantly become rabid fans.
Walken is just a pretty cool guy, aside from the fact that hes an actor (and has openly said he will take ANY role given to him) he just strikes me as an average joe and a fairly nice guy.
/my $0.02
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Walken is popular because every film he’s in (at least the ones I’ve seen) will have him deliver at least one line which is absolutely perfect.
Suicide Kings “Ira, you are the man”
Poolhall Junkies “I’m a millionaire”
SNL “The only prescription is more cowbell”
Catch Me if You Can “He got a fake ID and joined the Marines”
and I am drawing a blank on others, off the top of my head.
Did anybody but me see SCOTLAND, PA.? Teeny-tiny little independent movie: Shakespeare’s MACBETH set in the drive-though restaurants of Pennsylvania in the 1970. Walken plays Detective Sergeant Macduff and is too funny for words.
ahem
Make that “in the 1970s”. Mea culpa.
I can’t believe this thread has gotten this far and no one has mentioned that Walken is being supported behind the scenes by the hot-dog industry! How else would such a creepy guy continue to get work?
The whole thing is exposed here . Although there is no mention of Oscar Meyer directly, you can bet that their agents are working overtime to keep this man active!
Put me fimly in the Great Actor camp. Christopher Walken just has an inimitable Everyman presence that makes his performances completely truthful and an otherworldy creepiness that lends his darker roles a sinister cast. One of his best performances is in Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, where he plays a world-weary vampire who schools Lili Taylor in the uses of power and domination. In the US adaptation of Pennies From Heaven, he played a sleazy pimp and danced a wicked buck and wing with two whores to the Cole Porter tune, “Let’s Misbehave.”
No one has mentioned one of his most surreal roles – Brendan Frasier’s bombshelter-building dad in Blast from the Past. I liked it a lot.
Christopher Walken is an Icon due to the fact that he was involved with Natalie Wood just before she died.
He’s also very intriguing and a great character actor. Godspeed,Monica:)
Yeah, but don’t you get the feeling that if Christopher Walken wasn’t famous, he would be:
Pulp Fiction: “He’d be damned if any slopes was gonna put their greasy, yellow hands on his boys birthright, so he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something, his ass.”
Horribly racist line, but I hurt myself laughing every time I hear him say it. It’s his matter-of-fact delivery and vocal inflections.
He is the master of truly bizarre inflections.
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I think the added appeal of Walken that wil insure enduring amusement with his antics is that the way he speaks his very distinctive, which means almost anyone can do an impression without having to come close to his pitch. Some guys will be watching TV, a sappy program or commercial is on, and a guy can say the lines like Christopher Walken for instant amusement.
To answer the OP, it’s just you. You are an ignorant hollywood sycophant and you just don’t “get it.” Chris Walken has probably been famous longer than you’re capable of paying attention to a Christina Aguillera video (just a guess). Please let us know what you were smoking when you came up with this diatribe. I’m game!
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.