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View Poll Results: Your Favorite Dennis Hopper Role
Billy Easy Rider 3 4.29%
Photojournalist Apocalypse Now 10 14.29%
Frank Booth Blue Velvet 7 10.00%
Shooter Hoosiers 27 38.57%
Clifford Worley True Romance 6 8.57%
Howard Payne Speed 8 11.43%
Deacon Waterworld 4 5.71%
Other (Please state in thread) 2 2.86%
King Koopa Super Mario Bros. (aka Trout option) 3 4.29%
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:15 PM   #1
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Favorite Dennis Hopper Role

It struck me that Dennis Hopper played so many memorable roles, I thought this would be a good and timely poll in honor of his passing.

If you select, Other, of course, please post what role in the thread and why.

I encourage the use of the "Other" selection if you feel strongly enough--I am by no means an expert of DH filmography, and many of the movies prior to, say, 1980, I have no real connection with or memory of them, except that passing few I have happened to see (like Easy Rider).

DH has been some pretty great films in supporting roles (Rebel Without A Cause, Giant, Cool Hand Luke, True Grit), but I don't remember his roles in them or they were too small, IMO, to include. That's what "Other" is for, if you feel different.
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:19 PM   #2
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A great role in one of my favorite movies ever, Shooter in Hoosiers is a very easy choice for me.
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:22 PM   #3
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Cliffird Worley. True Romance is a great movie, and Hopper has a great scene in it. Very unforgetable.
As do all his movies.
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:30 PM   #4
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:31 PM   #5
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Tough call between Billy and Frank Booth, but I had to go with Booth. Hopper was made to play the psychopath and he never did it better than in Blue Velvet IMO.
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:42 PM   #6
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I actually put Speed, just because the movie is/was somewhat iconic, and the movie was MADE by Hopper. Without Hopper you have a movie as unwatchable as Speed 2.
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:45 PM   #7
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My vote for Apocalypse Now is almost certainly heavily influenced by enjoying that movie more than any of the others Hopper was in. That said though, I do think he nailed the part.

I also thought he came across as enjoying the bad camp of Waterworld, although I have no idea whether that was really the case or not.
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:52 PM   #8
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What option would I vote for if I've always hated every character he's played in any movie I saw him in? He almost makes Hoosiers unwatchable for me.

I recognize that he's a great actor and most of the world loves him and what he does. He just always grates on me. He's like a male Renee Zellweger. I rank him right behind Charlie Sheen on the Actors Whose Movies I Will Automatically Avoid list.
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Old 05-29-2010, 06:02 PM   #9
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Old 05-29-2010, 08:28 PM   #10
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I voted for his role in Apocalypse Now because it is one of the most memorable movies I have ever seen. I watch a lot of low-budget horror/thriller/sci-fi stuff and I think I'll remember Hopper more for being a fairly acclaimed actor that seemed to pop up in some of those types of films. The dude was in a lot of great movies, but he appeared in a ton of under the radar films, as well.

I kind of like that he didn't get too hung up on himself once he "made it," and continued to do low budget/indy stuff. I take it that he just enjoyed acting (based on the number of films, large and small, he appeared in over the years).
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Old 05-29-2010, 08:36 PM   #11
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My vote for Apocalypse Now is almost certainly heavily influenced by enjoying that movie more than any of the others Hopper was in. That said though, I do think he nailed the part.

I also thought he came across as enjoying the bad camp of Waterworld, although I have no idea whether that was really the case or not.

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Old 05-29-2010, 09:46 PM   #12
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What, no Viktor Drazen from Season 1 of 24?
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Old 05-29-2010, 09:48 PM   #13
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I actually put Speed, just because the movie is/was somewhat iconic, and the movie was MADE by Hopper. Without Hopper you have a movie as unwatchable as Speed 2.

Me too.
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Old 05-29-2010, 11:04 PM   #14
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I actually put Speed, just because the movie is/was somewhat iconic, and the movie was MADE by Hopper. Without Hopper you have a movie as unwatchable as Speed 2.

I don't get this at all. Speed without Hopper is still a very good action movie. Many of the best moments in the film don't even involve him, and there's so much that happens without him that I don't know how anyone could like the movie if it was just for him. He elevates the movie, but it was already a very good movie to begin with.
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Old 05-29-2010, 11:25 PM   #15
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While not a movie role, I absolutely loved his performance as "Stanley" the deranged NFL fan/referee in a series of Nike commercials back in the 90s.

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Old 05-29-2010, 11:26 PM   #16
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I was trying to find the "and he takes it, like a man, man" commercial, but couldn't.
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While not a movie role, I absolutely loved his performance as "Stanley" the deranged NFL fan/referee in a series of Nike commercials back in the 90s.

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Old 05-30-2010, 09:35 AM   #18
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Funny, I was thinking something very similar about the people claiming Speed is anything other than unwatchable crap. Yow.

I will miss Mr Hopper though. He was freaking disturbing in Blue Velvet.
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Old 05-30-2010, 01:51 PM   #19
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Where's the love for Feck from River's Edge? Hopper was great in a lot of roles, but this was definetly one of the best and gets my vote under "Other." For those who, haven't seen it, a synopsis is here.
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Old 05-30-2010, 03:07 PM   #20
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Old 05-30-2010, 10:32 PM   #22
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What, no Viktor Drazen from Season 1 of 24?

This gets my vote. But to be fair, I'm probably fifteen years too young to be voting in this poll. Season 1 of 24 was amazing...as was Dennis Hopper.
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Old 05-30-2010, 11:00 PM   #23
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