RIP: Dennis Hopper

Aww, man!...I was just watching the blu-ray of Speed the other day, perhaps not his finest acting hour but a fun performance nonetheless. RIP.
 
I had the good fortune to meet and work with Dennis, on E-Ring, for NBC.

He was smart, funny, wise, generous and just a total class act from start to finish. Everyone liked him and was excited to be working on the show, with him.

RIP.
 
Damn. Real sinking feeling when I saw the thread title.

Some Hopper quotes:

Like all artists I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

In the 50s, when me and Natalie Wood and James Dean and Nick Adams and Tony Perkins (Anthony Perkins) suddenly arrived... God, it was a whole group of us that sort of felt like that earlier group - the John Barrymores, Errol Flynns, Sinatras, Clifts - were a little farther out than we were... So we tried to emulate that lifestyle. For instance, once Natalie and I decided we'd have an orgy. And Natalie says "O.K., but we have to have a champagne bath." So we filled the bathtub full of champagne. Natalie takes off her clothes, sits down in the champagne, starts screaming. We take her to the emergency hospital. That was *our* orgy, you understand?

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

[talking on the phone with David Lynch after reading the Blue Velvet (1986) script] David, you have to let me play Frank because I am Frank.

[about his 8 days marriage with Michelle Phillips] The first seven were pretty good.

There are moments that I've had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough. I never felt I played the great part. I never felt that I directed the great movie. And I can't say that it's anybody's fault but my own.

I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' and I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography was all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.
 
Oh man, what a lose. I loved the guy. "Easy Rider" changed Hollywood, and we can all be grateful for that. RIP, man.

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Jack Daniel Stanley said:
[talking on the phone with David Lynch after reading the Blue Velvet (1986) script] David, you have to let me play Frank because I am Frank.
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LOL...
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OMG ... I had no idea he passed till I saw this thread.

The linked article mentioned Easy Rider but I will mention in this thread that for me he will always
be remembered as the scariest of any villain to appear in David Lynch's films

Blue Velvet
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and of course

Apocalypse Now
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Rest In piece Mr Hopper.

Legend.

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I'm going to watch Blue Velvet in honor of The Hopp (I know that wasn't a thing, but I'm going to make it one). I just got done watching his scenes in Apocalypse Now again.
 
Really sad news. Hopper was awesome. He really accomplished a lot over a long career.

I know Easy Rider is his most iconic role, but I always think of Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, and strangely enough Land of the Dead when I see a picture of or hear the name Dennis Hopper.

RIP.
 
If the deaths of Linkletter, Coleman and Hopper, I always wonder about the "famous people die in threes" myth.

It seems to happen so often.
 
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The thing I respect most about him is how he turned things around for himself. He got a second chance and he took advantage of it. The stories you read about the old Dennis are pretty crazy. I'm glad to hear that he not only restored his career, but learned some lessons about life in general.

RIP
 
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