D'ja ever notice - and this is not to diminish the man's skills as an actor or anything - that Hudson and Haise are pretty similar characters? They're both cocky aces who eventually lose their shit, get in a petty argument during a crisis situation, and spend the last third of the film huddled in a ball in the corner (of course, the difference is, Hudson turns out to be a coward whereas Haise... well, let's just say the poor guy misinterpreted an order and got a really nasty health problem as a result. The movie's courteous enough not to go into detail). Since Aliens and Apollo 13 are the two films he's in I've seen the most, that connection has always really jumped out at me.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Bill Paxton dead at 61
Paxton was John Garrett in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fred Haise in Apollo 13, and Pvt. Hudson in Aliens, among many other roles. (He's also the "f*ck you, asshole!" punk at the beginning of The Terminator.)
D'ja ever notice - and this is not to diminish the man's skills as an actor or anything - that Hudson and Haise are pretty similar characters? They're both cocky aces who eventually lose their shit, get in a petty argument during a crisis situation, and spend the last third of the film huddled in a ball in the corner (of course, the difference is, Hudson turns out to be a coward whereas Haise... well, let's just say the poor guy misinterpreted an order and got a really nasty health problem as a result. The movie's courteous enough not to go into detail). Since Aliens and Apollo 13 are the two films he's in I've seen the most, that connection has always really jumped out at me.
D'ja ever notice - and this is not to diminish the man's skills as an actor or anything - that Hudson and Haise are pretty similar characters? They're both cocky aces who eventually lose their shit, get in a petty argument during a crisis situation, and spend the last third of the film huddled in a ball in the corner (of course, the difference is, Hudson turns out to be a coward whereas Haise... well, let's just say the poor guy misinterpreted an order and got a really nasty health problem as a result. The movie's courteous enough not to go into detail). Since Aliens and Apollo 13 are the two films he's in I've seen the most, that connection has always really jumped out at me.
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