Posted on 07/13/2022 9:42:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harrison Ford has played some of the most memorable and iconic characters in the history of cinema. Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard in the Bladerunner films despite making their first screen appearances, decades ago, and still remain audience favorites.
In addition to the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Blade Runner series, Ford has starred in many hugely successful films, such as The Fugitive, Air Force One, Patriot Games, and Clear and Present Danger.
But the downside of superstardom is that some among Ford’s efforts were dwarfed, not because of their lack of eminence, but because of the tendency of audiences and critics to focus on the blockbusters and the iconic characters.
On his 80th birthday, let’s revisit some of Harrison Ford's underrated films, in no particular order of importance.
Witness (1985)
When a young Amish boy witnesses a murder, the investigating officer (Ford) goes into hiding with the boy and his mother in Amish country. The film is notable for the endearing love story that develops between Ford’s detective and the boy’s widowed mother. This is arguably Ford’s finest acting moment and that earned him his only Academy Award nomination, so far.
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Ford is enthralling as Allie Fox, the cynical but genius inventor who relocates his family to the jungles of Central America because he is sick of the decadence within the U.S. Fox is selfish, unpleasant, humorless, and egocentric to the point of madness. As he goes deeper into the jungle, he begins to lose his sanity.
The film is dark and disturbing, and also a fascinating character study.
It makes one wonder what Ford's career would have been like in the absence of his superstardom. He would have excelled playing a wider variety of parts that were not necessarily virtuous.
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The Mosquito Coast is great.
‘a snail on a Razor Blade.’
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Forgot That one !
His childhood home went up for sale recently
https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/harrison-fords-childhood-home-asks-749k-for-sale/
Ford is one of those actors who makes enjoyable movies, despite his limited range as an actor. I’ve enjoyed his movies since American Graffiti.
His age difference from his wife, Calista Flockhart, is 23 years, the same as Donald and Melania. I don’t hear the same kind of sneering, nasty remarks from Hollywood about the Fords as we did about the Trumps.
Apocalypse Now
The roast beef
Not mentioned so far:
Working Girl
Air Force One
Indiana Jones
The Fugitive
We worked with him on Young Eagles in the Rocky Mountain region. He’s a real personable type of guy and was generous with his time and flying.
2017 Air Traffic Control recording - Harrison Ford lands on the taxiway at John Wayne Airport (Santa Ana, CA) in his Aviat Husky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=binBd37IEuQ&ab_channel=74Gear
RE: His age difference from his wife, Calista Flockhart, is 23 years, the same as Donald and Melania. I don’t hear the same kind of sneering, nasty remarks from Hollywood about the Fords as we did about the Trumps.
Nowadays, being old enough to be your wife’s father doesn’t seem to be an issue ( I don’t think it ever was an issue in many cultures ). But, but, but, a woman marrying a husband who’s young enough to be your son? hmmmm....
We should ask French President Macron about that.
He’s always been my all-around favorite actor.
The thing I find most interesting about his career is that he almost always played the good guy.
The only exception I know of was a movie where he’s a doctor living on a lake and his wife gets murdered - turns out he is the killer. I really didn’t care for it - it just didn’t seem right casting him as the bad guy.
yep the “cousin” from Ohio(?I think) loved that scene
RE: The only exception I know of was a movie where he’s a doctor living on a lake and his wife gets murdered - turns out he is the killer. I really didn’t care for it - it just didn’t seem right casting him as the bad guy.
What about the heart throb Robert Redford ? I finally saw him as a bad guy in Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Also, the very funny Robin Williams played a creepy bad guy in the movie: One Hour Photo and Insomnia
Haven’t seen the movie ‘Witness’. But about 10 yrs ago a farmer friend linked me to the scene where a character is being buried in a silo of grain. The character wallows in it and is eventually covered up. The part that is pathetic that the flow into the silo was not that great. You sink in maybe a foot. Just re-adjust your feet every minute or so and you never get in any deeper.
I’ve been involved in grain handling a good share of my life. You would need to have a truckload dumped on you immediately to get trapped, say, if you were in a grain facility receiving pit, working on something.
The disaster is when emptying the bin or silo, one goes in because some mold or simply too high moisture in the grain causes some insecure slopes, and then a sudden avalanche.
I’ve seen that many times.
Not mentioned so far:
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Nor ‘What Lies Beneath’.
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July 13, 2020
1:08 / 1:22
Watch Harrison Ford’s Fiery Speech On Climate Change At The UN
https://www.facebook.com/GlblCtznUK/videos/watch-harrison-fords-fiery-speech-on-climate-change-at-the-un/1176329919407110/
80?? OK, I really feel old now. Ford in my favorite scene from "Apocalypse Now" - the terminate with extreme prejudice scene.
I recall reading and article somewhere in the past about a search and rescue being called for a lost boy scout.
Ford went up in his helicopter and found the kid and brought him home.
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