A compilation of awesome posters<\/a> of the Scheider-movies from the 1970s.<\/p>\nProbably best known for his role in Jaws<\/i>, my favorite Roy Scheider performance is in Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz<\/i> (although I am also partial to his performance in The French Connection<\/i>). But his portrayal of Joe Gideon (Bob Fosse’s alter ego) in All That Jazz<\/i> – a dance man who smokes, fucks, drinks, and pops pills right into open-heart surgery – is one of the all-time great performances by an actor, period. He was nominated for an Academy Award.<\/p>\n
Scheider was never afraid to get ugly in his work, or unlikeable, or grander-than-life. He had courage. I can’t imagine anyone else in the part of Joe Gideon and … Roy Scheider is most definitely NOT the obvious choice. But he claimed<\/i> that part. He IS that part.<\/p>\n
“Showtime!”<\/p>\n
I think one of my favorite scenes is when they’re all in rehearsal in the dance studio – and it’s just not. working<\/i> … and it’s all on him to figure it out, because he’s the choreographer, he’s the general in charge. Things get tense. But there’s a block, somehow … Gideon can’t GET to what he wants to express. It’s a classic scene (rarely portrayed on film) of the artistic process. It’s not a forgiving montage – where we see, over time, the struggle, and then the triumph. No. We are in the muck and mud with him. He can’t get out of the creative block. We are with him thru that. The scene goes on for what feels like an excruciating amount of time … you yearn for them to cut away, like: let them just work out the problem on their own, leave me out of it. But then comes the breakthrough. Gideon figures it out.<\/p>\n
Great great scene, one I treasure for many reasons.<\/p>\n
Please leave your favorite performances in the comments section, as a tribute to this great actor.<\/p>\n
I don’t post the following clip to be in bad taste. I post it because it’s perfect. And it is how I will remember him.<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nBye-bye, Mr. Scheider. You’ll be missed more than you’ll ever know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sad sad news. New York Times obit here. More thoughts at Cinematical. Here’s Jonathan’s post – he includes a clip from Sorcerer. And here is a not-to-be-missed post on Scheider from Jeremy at Moon in the Gutter. A compilation of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23174,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions\/23174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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