Christopher Walken Paints Over, ‘Destroys’ Famed Banksy Art on TV Set

New York Post ^ | November 11, 2021 | Hannah Sparks

[Steely Tom]

It’s not like he shot anyone.

Or submerged Banksy's picture in a vat of urine.

[Sans-Culotte]

IMO, Graffiti is graffiti. It does not bother me that it was painted over at all. But all the news stories make it sound like Christopher Walken just decided to paint over some brilliant artwork. I doubt that he had much to do with the idea of painting over it at all

[DAC21]

More Paint Brush!

[Carriage Hill]

If it’s water-based paint, it’ll wash/scrub off.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

LOL. Article clearly said Banksy gave prior permission for Walken to “destroy” his work. In other words, the article title is completely misleading and makes it sound like an actor blatantly destroyed an artist’s work. No, Banksy gave his prior permission for it.

Stupid article. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[fso301]

I thought he was pretty good in that movie he did with Sean Penn.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It’s worse than you think. Gravity is actually increasing, and here’s the evidence:

1. I can’t jump as high as I used to.
2. I can’t lift things I used to be able to.
3. When I fall down, I hit harder and it hurts more.
4. For numerical, scientific proof, when I get on the scale, it reads considerably higher than it did 40 years ago.

There you have it.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I liked Christopher Walken in “Balls of Fury”.

[sockmonkey]

I liked Walken in “Undertaking Betty”, a British dark comedy. He is great as the cutting edge kinda nuts undertaker.

[IYAS9YAS]

The pub scene in “Inglorious Basterds” is a clinic on how to build tension in a scene. That and the opening Hans Landa scene, as well. You know what’s going to happen, but still you’re on the edge of your seat.

Agreed. Add to that the restaurant scene with Landa and Shosanna. That was down-right intense.

[Flaming Conservative]

“Who Am I This s Time?”, is my favorite.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

LOL! Don’t tell a leftist that otherwise we will see protests to stop “gravity change” with Greta and Al Gore propped up as experts in “gravity change” and to cure it we must ban all heavy things like trucks and ships

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Perhaps I can get in on the ground floor of the anti-gravity-change movement, and get people to send me weight-offset payments. I know, I’ll make a movie called “An Incoherent Truth”. I’ll be rich! Rich, I tell you!

[Lazamataz]

The pub scene in “Inglorious Basterds” is a clinic on how to build tension in a scene. That and the opening Hans Landa scene, as well. You know what’s going to happen, but still you’re on the edge of your seat.

That second scene is so iconic, that there are some great parodies of it.

Grammar Nazis

[atc23]

The pub scene in “Inglorious Basterds” is a clinic on how to build tension in a scene. That and the opening Hans Landa scene, as well. You know what’s going to happen, but still you’re on the edge of your seat.

The dialog is great but you know what really puts the dialog over the top is the masterful use of props. Colonel Landa's pipe and match. the milk bottle. Great directors know how to use the props to add tension to a scene - Tarantino is a film buff - that's obvious. The most masterful use of a small prop I've ever seen is Al Pacino's little keychain in Dog Day Afternoon - absolutely brilliant.