David thomson breaking bad5/9/2023 ![]() Bridges was fine as Bad Blake, but the film wasn't sure whether to make him a deadbeat or a kind of Willie Nelson – a master gone to seed. Still, he and we should be careful.Ĭrazy Heart was nice entertainment, but no more. It's not that he hasn't earned such status. ![]() Now, Fat City looks like the real thing, while Bridges is an Oscar-winner (for Crazy Heart) – and there is some danger that he is about to become an institution and a national treasure. Bridges was the kid and Stacy Keach was the veteran who teaches him. ![]() No one in 1972 thought John Huston's Fat City (from a Leonard Gardner novel) was a masterpiece – it was simply a shabby, offhand movie about small-time boxers, made without sentiment or hope. The films were not all good or demanding, but Bridges was building a consistency all the more admirable in that not many of his films were hits. He was happy to play off situations and other characters. He was seldom caught acting or breaking a sweat. ![]() It was important to Bridges that he didn't seek important parts. ![]() It was said that Bridges was a natural, the closest we had to a second Robert Mitchum – a world-weary, handsome presence, who declined to fall for the lofty values thrown around in American stories. S ome of us have revered Jeff Bridges for decades – since his good-natured young studs and chumps: Duane in The Last Picture Show the boxer who keeps getting knocked out in Fat City and, with Barry Brown, as drifters and small-time thieves in Bad Company. ![]()
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