Liked him very much as Matt Sites in the Sci-Fi Cop movie "Alien Nation"
Posted on 07/07/2022 11:16:08 AM PDT by C19fan
For those who haven’t seen “The Way of The Gun” give it a watch.
Several other excellent actors including James Caan.
I own less than 8 DVD movies.....that is one.
After early roles in Howard Hawks’s El Dorado (1966), Robert Altman’s Countdown (1967) and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People (1969), he came to prominence for playing his signature role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) with a cameo appearance at the end.
Caan had significant roles in films such as Brian’s Song (1971), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Gambler (1974), Rollerball (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Alan J. Pakula’s Comes a Horseman (1978). He had sporadically worked in film since the 1980s, with his notable performances including roles in Thief (1981), Gardens of Stone (1987), Misery (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), Bottle Rocket (1996), The Yards (2000), Dogville (2003), and Elf (2003).
I really liked James Caan. Amazing talent. Longstanding career. RIP.
Saw a documentary about The Godfather trilogy where James Caan recalled The Italian American society kept trying to award him the Italian American of the year award for his acting in Godfather 1......he said he had to keep telling them “I’m flattered thank you so much, but I’m not Italian”.
RIP Mr. Caan.
And thanks for the quality entertainment.
Seems like his career included lots of “almost” parts. I believe he had a reputation in the ‘70’s for randomly punching people, which likely limited his prospects.
So he really was a hot head.
Somewhere on youtube is a video of James Caan talking about how John Wayne trolled him while making the movie El Dorado.
Wayne would give him directions and advice that he knew were contrary to the way the director, Howard Hawks, wanted a scene to be then laugh when Caan got called out for not following the script.
“James Caan almost played Rocky Balboa...”
In an interview Stallone once said he would have buried the Rocky script in the back yard before he would let Caan play the part.
Don’t know what he had against Caan.
I first saw him in “Lady In A Cage”. RIP Mr. Caan.
“Rollerball” (1975) is almost unique as a film in portraying a dystopian corporatocracy.
Corporatocracy is a term used to refer to an economic, political and judicial system controlled by corporations or corporate interests.
*This* is the world that globalists *want*.
Oddly enough, corporatocrats often seem to embrace socialism, but only so far as to make the public pay for their own health care, retirement, and social services. And only so the corporations don’t have to pay for it.
In truth, corporatists are mostly like royalists, imagining themselves as the nobility and everyone else as the peasantry.
Their biggest personal deficiency is that they can only enjoy their wealth and power if everyone else is stripped of their wealth and power. Champagne and caviar lose their flavor unless you can look out the high windows of the tower at the starving rabble on the street fighting against your henchmen police.
You can see why there are few or no more movies like Rollerball.
Thief was a really good movie. Very under rated.
I thought Caan was miscast in The Godfather. He didn’t seem Italian at all to me.
I liked Elf, it’s a cute movie. I thought he was really good in Misery. RIP
Rollerball was a phenomenal movie about the individual vs the group...almost Randian.
If you never sell out, you never die.
Too much comedy with that young girl.
I liked him in, “The Killer Elite” and “Thief.”
Caan was perfect in that role.
I remember watching it with tears. Probably the best “made for TV movie” ever.
And, Thief. One of his best.
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