Of all the people who should get Donald Trump but do not because they cannot, Charles Robert Redford Jr. is at the top of a large pyramid of not-getters.
“Fall Preview: Robert Redford rides into the sunset”
The AP has just published their review of what might be Redford’s last movie. In many ways the slightly ahead of their time Tea Party People who first endorsed Ted Cruz for President then switched and stayed steady behind Trump followed Redford’s character in “Old Man With A Gun”.
“……. when the teller is interviewed by the police, she’ll sound a little bewildered describing the encounter. “He was a gentleman.”
“Redford, now 82, has for six decades been leaving us similarly charmed. Who wouldn’t hand over whatever Robert Redford asked for? But David Lowery’s “The Old Man and the Gun” may be his last heist. Redford has said the movie, which Fox Searchlight will release Sept. 28, will be his final one as an actor. The news, with palpable affection, ricocheted around the world.
Redford through his long movie career has “charted half a century of something intrinsically American. His Sundance Kid, his Jeremiah Johnson, his Bob Woodward, …. are Outsiders, like the president. Neil Simon who just passed away at age 91 had the ability to write characters — even the leading characters that we’re supposed to root for — that are absolutely flawed,” Jack Lemmon, who starred as Felix Ungar in the 1968 film adaptation of Simon’s The Odd Couple, once said of the writer. “They have foibles. They have faults. But, they are human beings. They are not all bad or all good; they are people we know.” He wrote Barefoot in the Park, which starred: ready? ….. Robert Redford 55 years ago in 1963. Is Karma behind Trump too??
Redford has played these figures of rigorous independence and self-determination. From the young C.I.A. agent in “Three Days of the Condor” to the aged sailor in “All Is Lost,” . . . . the word to be underscored is ’independence,’” says Redford. “I’ve always believed in that word. The industry was pretty well controlled by the mainstream, which I was a part of. But I saw other stories out there that weren’t having a chance to be told and I thought, ‘Well, maybe I can commit my energies to giving those people a chance.’ As I look back on it, I feel very good about that.” He should and that’s what Donald Trump is all about but Trump is playing in his first political/play/show/movie only Trumps political career is his first, not at age 21 which is when Redford started his movie career.
Redford: “The idea of the outlaw has always been very appealing to me. If you look at some of the films, it’s usually having to do with the outlaw sensibility, which I think has probably been my sensibility. I think I was just born with it,” says Redford. “From the time I was just a kid, I was always trying to break free of the bounds that I was stuck with, and always wanted to go outside.”
Redford made ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ 49 years ago that began his and Sundance’s existence. Many have compared today’s White House investigation to Watergate, which he so memorably chronicled in “All the President’s Men.” Redford still loves talking about the film, like the light-and-dark interplay by cinematographer Gordon Willis. “There were no shadows in the newsroom,” he says. “Once you leave that newsroom, you step into darkness.” the same can be said for the White House where when he steps out the president jumps into the full frontal attacks on everything about him from his hair to his wife is subject to relentless, cruel, dark attacks. We wish all the best. .
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