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In the 1990s, Gary Oldman became Hollywood’s first benchmark. He played the prince of darkness, Dracula; Harrish Ford kick president threatened in Air Force One; chewed the landscape as a disadvantaged dea in Leon: the professional; And adopted a really bizarre hairstyle as an industrial / weapon designer who directs a team of extraterrestrial mercenaries in The fifth element.
Naturally, as a result of playing so much of despicable ne’er-do-wells, Oldman did not become a stranger to biting her from the dust of her characters. Each action film fan remembers Ford Growling, “Go down my plane!” While kicking Oldman to take the leaflet of the presidential plane, breaking his neck in the process. Likewise, the image of agent DEA Norman Stansfield was exploded by a chain of grenades lives for a long time in memory.
However, according to Oldman, none of these dead is his favorite disappearance on the screen. Instead, this honor goes to the end of Drexl Spvey in the classic of Tony Scott’s crime True romance. In this film, famous by a young Quentin Tarantino, Oldman gave one of his most appreciated and most insane performances as a white drug trafficker with gold teeth, milky eye and dreadlocks. Drexl had a problematic habit of speaking with a false black patois and was downright maliciously the second where he appeared on the screen.
In a fun way, Tarantino admitted that he had written Drexl for himself, which is a crazy thing to imagine. However, when Oldman was hired, he took the largest of the big swings to play the quirky character and held the chance to fall flat on his face. His commitment to the song was undeniably entertaining, however, and for the brief period that he is in the film, Drexl adds a real thrill of unpredictability and danger. Then he is killed in a really spectacular way.
In a fun way, Scott and Oldman admitted in 2008 Maxim Retrospective that Oldman’s mother was in place to look at the number one screen of her son. “Gary would bring her 70 -year -old mother on the set,” Gloussa Scott. “After a catch, he would go,” Mom, what do you think? ” She would say: “It’s good” and he said to herself: “What do you know?” »»
Oldman added with a playful glow in her eyes: “She saw everything. May God bless her. “
However, it is likely that even “summer, did that”, Ms. Oldman was surprised by the pure brutality of her son’s death True romance. However, if she felt shocked or horrified by making her see her having an explosion of groin hunting rifle, followed by one directly in the dome, she refused to let him show. “His mother was also there for the scene where Drexl’s cock exploded,” recalls Scott. “She said:” Yeah, I thought it was really good. “”
As for Oldman, he loved Drexl’s bloody dismissal precisely because it was so bizarre and violent. In fact, it was even more explicit in the initial editing of the film, but Scott was forced to alleviate it for the theatrical cup. “The pistol pulled whites, but there was still a rocket and a powder out of a barrel,” recalls Oldman. “I was wearing a metal cup.”
After reflecting on its vast death list, including its emblematic execution in Dracula by Bram StokerOldman concluded that Drexl was a cup above the rest. “I died in many films, but to explode my cock and get shot with the open eyes, it’s up there,” he smiled. “It beats a stake through the heart!”
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