I have a suspicion the writing is all AI generated. All that flowery language bull$hit. Total joke!!! But the Steve 'The Queen' McQueen/Fassbender post-mortem collaboration foray into cinematic history is an iconic....blablablablabla! 😁
Nevermind, the two didn't speak on set. I would say I like Steve McQueen's acting and film presence (or star turn or whatever James Garner belittling remark about him was) better than Paul Newman, despite that Newman seems to be the better man.
"Papillon" dragged endlessly on spoiled by the unconvincing Dustin Hoffman. Small wonder Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 thought so little of it (72%). "The Getawway" saw Steve McQueen at his absolute best.
@@pip393 I guess you missed the whole premise of a prison film with the inmates transported to Devils island. A place where no one escapes. As for Hofman he portrayed a character that had little experience surviving had it not been for the friendship between him and Papillon. As for Rotten Tomatoes rating it isn't worth jack but each to their own because I found The Gateway tedious.
McQueen and Hoffman deserved Oscars for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. There's one scene where they even fought a crocodile. They weren't even nominated.
Good to know. Because otherwise, the "king of cool" Steve "The Queen" McQueen sure sound like a whiney little betch. (Along w/being short) The real king of cool should be Gentleman Jim Garner.
He's dead and still getting haters. Can't blame him though he was a member of the finest fighting organization in the USA. The Marine Corps (for which I am a member hahaha.) We are arrogant sons of bitches but nations shit their pants when they hear the USMC is coming by for a "visit". Hell, they are the guys the SEALS call when they get into trouble (seals are small specialized direct action teams - hardly enough to take on an enemy Unit of 1000's of enemy troops.
This AI generated hit piece was hilarious. First,, the movie was "Junior Bonner" not "Junior BONER", lol. But mixing up the black director McQueen and "Michelle" Fassbender with our subject. was priceless! Can't believe a word in it.
The thing was McQueen was a natural at acting and attracted the attention of the audience. I noticed this when he did the TV show "wanted dead or.alive" Steve McQueen RIP.
Unfortunately McQueen's behavior with Women, Selfish, cruel, Thoughtless, Violent, Childish & demanding [see gf,& Wife, Ali McGraw et al] in greatest proportion. Smacks of a man that cares far more about Himself, than others, and is insecure to the extreme... especially in relationships, the women getting the brunt of the consequent misfortune here. Speaks for itself.
I met Robert Evans (Paramount exec) about 15 years ago on Miami Beach. He told me he hated Steve McQueen ...as his wife Ali McaGraw ran away with McQueen while filming together. Evans was very hurt by this...I could feel his pain as he spoke about it!!!!!
You got it. Then no mother either. And to top off, short. You can see the recipe was never going to do him any favours. Hurt people hurt people I guess.
WHAT happens at the end, where a second Steve McQueen enters the narrative? The director is not the actor, they don't look anywhere the same, and their careers don't even overlap. How bizarre....
The Bullet chase scene was the first in history to be filmed at actual speed, and not sped up in editing to make the cars appear to be going faster than they actually were.
Nice! From what I've read about those cars, especially the Chargers they used, they didn't need to be sped up through editing lol. They were mostly stock, other than suspension and they were so quick, the driver had to keep letting off the gas to allow the heavily modified Mustangs to keep up so he didn't blow them away!
That’s crap. Plenty of car chases filmed and shown at real speed have preceded Bullet. It might be hard for you to image, but the world doesn’t stop at the US border.
Suspect Steve NEVER got over his father leaving & it was the source of all of his anger & rebellion. Not an excuse, but likely the truth & should be a cautionary lesson to all parents who aren’t prepared or willing to be a parent: DON’T have kids. There are consequence to choices in life either in this world or the next.
This fabulous guy is fabulous. Every film he stars in is fabulous to watch. Not only was he fabulous, he was fabulous, fantastic , mesmerising, gifted, talented, cool , addictive, smart charming , so much more. In my opinion Newman couldn't touch McQueen. McQueens facial expressions spoke with out speaking a word. Now that's an actor.
Umm, dear AI & the editors Michael Fassbender and director McQueen, a different person altogether than Steve McQueen have no reason to be in this doc. Know your McQueens or find another line of work.
Just for info , something i never knew . But i only recently found out that James Garner received a Purple Heart 💜 and other military decorations in the Korean war . And also Charles Bronson the actor received a Purple heart 💜 during WW2 when he was in The Airforce , flying multiple missions as an air gunner . Something i guess they never boasted about
You would have to be an absolute fool to boast about a Purple Heart; it meant you got a wound. Why on earth would you boast about that ? It's not a medal, it's an award.
I love the editing of this how Steve MQueen suddenly becomes a black director from the 2000’s teaming up with Michael fastbender for 12 yes a slave I believe I wonder if The Queen will suddenly pop up and her contribution to onset fueds with co stars
This makes no sense. McQueen and Robert Redford never worked together. Now it’s talking about Michael Fassbender and another Steve McQueen. I think it’s AI gone bonkers 🤣
I've never read or heard anything positive about Steve McQueen as a person. Difficult to work with, demanding, uncooperative and arrogant are just some of the words tossed about.
The guy could not act his way out of a paper bag. The controllers just used him to foist that fake stoic personna to the (m)asses. He knew he had no talent. Could convey no emotion no matter what. Could.nt even come up a correct speech pattern for that Josh Randall part. All that daredevil and coke was to drown his feelings of inadequacy.
He was planned to go to Sharon Tate & Roman Polanskis' house that night Charlie's friends visited there Unfortunately, McQueen got a 12pack and ........ Didn't get killed that night Plus , Yul Brenner seamed like a d! Ck, someone who took himself way to seriously
Steve McQueen had some major problems. It carried over into his work and he was mostly considered a pain in the ass to work with. He gave some good, but never great, performances in many excellent films. THE CINCINNATI KID, THE SAND PEBBLES and PAPILLON were my favorites.
This boring and repetitive "doco" takes an unexpected turn at the 26:16 mark when they introduce "Michelle" Fassbender. I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
2:22 That iconic corner of Clay and Taylor in San Francisco is a place I finally got to visit the last year the Raiders were in the Bay Area. I drove the poor locals crazy 🙂I'm a huge fan of Movies, the city and Steve McQueen a super talented and very troubled man indeed.
This was a hit pice of Steve McQueen. I don’t care how difficult he was to work with. I like all of his movies. The studios would not have put up with him if his films didn’t make money. McQueen had great film presence which is why his films made money. Quite honestly,I’d rather watch a Steve McQueen movie than a Paul Newman movie. McQueen reminds me of George Raft another pain in the neck to work with but the studios put up with him bc his films made money. Raft was argumentative and temperamental too. Sometimes it just be like that. 😉
I agree that this was a hit piece, most likely by a Paul Newman nut-hugger, as there seems to be a few piping in here with very similar sentiments, as if they new McQueen personally.
McQueen was AWOL in the service and almost got dishonorable discharge. He was arrogant and difficult…that’s why he only has a couple of lines in The Great Escape and Bullitt. He got far playing the strong silent type, but tried to upstage every headline actor he worked with. McQueen was jealous of their fame.
He took an unauthorized absence, failing to return after a weekend pass expired. He was caught by the shore patrol while staying with a girlfriend (Barbara Ross) for two weeks. After resisting arrest, he was sentenced to 41 days in the brig. After this, McQueen resolved to focus his energies on self-improvement and embraced the Marines' discipline. He saved the lives of five other Marines during an Arctic exercise, pulling them from a tank before it broke through ice into the sea. He was assigned to the honor guard responsible for guarding the presidential yacht of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. McQueen served until 1950, when he was honorably discharged
26:43 Incredible man, Steve McQueen, being the only actor ever to have died and returned to life years later as a, this time, very convincing black actor. Acting at it finest....or maybe just that this is what you get when you're too lazy to write a narration and get a dumb AI ChatGPT to do it for you.
For those who feel that life is a 1 + 1= 2 equation, it just isn't. The life of Steve McQueen shows this. With a childhood leading to prison, McQueen was able to pull himself out of this. He was a good actor and made many good movies! It is in his relationship with women that one sees the destructive McQueen at play! I am convinced that if he had faced his cancer diagnosis and got treatment, he might have survived.
No way Newman was a bigger star than McQueen ? Maybe with critics Newman was more popular , but with fans it was McQueen hands down, the king of cool !
McQueen apologized to Brynner in his later years for his behavior in Magnificent 7. He was also the one who encouraged Charles Buchinsky to change his name. As they were driving together down Hollywood Blvd, they passed Bronson St., and that’s all she wrote. Bronson and McQueen worked together on 3 movies. I think a lot of the characterization of McQueen in this video, and the many true stories of his interactions with other famous actors, is fair to a point but a little bit overblown and sensationalized, especially the “hated” in the title here. Many of these guys remained friends with Steve. Listen to LeVar Burton’s commentary on working with McQueen in the Hunter. Everyone wanted to be in his inner circle. McQueen was well loved by fans and many in the industry . He was very charitable without boasting and became a Christian in his later life.
Everyone who worked with him seemed to agree that McQueen was a pr--k. in any case, Steve McQueen the actor had nothing to do with the movie Fastbender. That was a different Steve McQueen.
It makes sense that he is an Aries, they really do always want to be the first at everything, which makes them awesome at anything they apply themselves at and commit to, but sometimes hard to work with other people or in terms of having leadership skills.(unless being the best leader is their highest aspiration)
Paul Newman was not a "bigger name" in Hollywood than Steve McQueen. They both had big names but McQueen had a cool factor that no other actor showed before or after him. Both were great actors but for McQueen to refuse to take second billing in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was appropriate. Meanwhile Robert Redford shared equal billing with Newman. I'm not too sure your research is accurate on this particular topic. The motorcycle scene in The Great Escape was excellent. The jump over the barbed wire fence into the "no man's land area" was done by Bud Ekins who was a frequent rider with McQueen in Jawbone Cyn outside the town of Mojave. McQueen was an extremely good rider but Ekins who was a movie stuntman was known to be outstanding in motorcycle races. The producers of the movie didn't want McQueen to make the stunt over the barbed wire fence.
I think if Steve McQueen had beaten the Cancer in 1980 and lived you could only imagine the bigger and better achievements he would have gone on too he died way too young at 50 i taught lately about Steve Mcqueen he would have been very good in a James Bond movie co-starring with Roger Moore not playing the villain instead Steve McQueen would have been being his Amercian ally maybe in Roger Moore final outing as 007 in 1985's A View to a Kill. Roger Moore and Steve McQueen where big stars at the same time in the 60's so if Steve McQueen had lived it's very possible him and Roger Moore would have eventually crossed paths on screen who knows no doubt these two great are in heaven with our Lord Kind Regards take care God Bless John Tipperary Town Ireland
"not playing the villain instead Steve McQueen would have been being his Amercian ally maybe in Roger Moore final outing as 007 i" How can you possibly write when most of this video is about how he always wanted to be the lead. He couldn't possibly be in a Bond film without being Bond.
I have great respect for Robert Redford, he was interviewed once by a British newspaper and when the interviewer said smile for a photo mr Redford said I do not smile to order well done Robert
Mc Queen could have played Star Trek's Gary Seven on the silver screen. He could also have played Anakin Skywalker in the "Return of the Jedi." He was taken too soon.
I beleive that Mcqueen and Bronson were friends during the 50's, but may have soured becasue of their collaboration from the Magnificent 7 and Great Escape.Bronson though I have heard was difficult to work with. Not a friendly man at all. James gardner I think was a neighbor of McQueen and did get along at first with him. Garner probably soured on McWueen because of the THE GREAT ESCAPE. Newman certainly had a far greater career than did Steve, though when Lee Marvin worked with Newman, he did not care for him that much, criticizng him when he would not give an autograph to a young girl, telling her to go buy a beer instead.
I doubt Bronson was difficult to work with. He was a humble and quiet man and quiet doesn't mean difficult. Similar type to DeNiro, didn't like offscreen attention or chit-chat, simply an introvert person.
@@joemilo2710 I do remember hearing that he was not easy to work with on Mr. Majestic. Liv Ulmann and Claudia Cardinale James Garner, Vincent Price, Robert Mitchum did not care for him too much. Though I think he got along well with Jason Robards, Lee Marvin, and Jim Brown, James Coburn, and a young Kurt Russell. By the way, I am a Bronson fan, and just a few hours ago watched with My son THE MECHANIC.
@@elnick1000 Maybe he just picked people he liked and found something rejective about others on and off the set and was not faking to be friendly with them. Remember, he comes from a family of Eastern Europe immigrants, lived in big poverty and worked as a coal miner in dangerous caves back then before he went to war. As a real roughneck he probably preferred more real people to be around than movie stars and divas. Funny you mentioned The Mechanic, because Jan-Michael Vincent is another guy that was arrogant and terrible as a person in real life, especially after becoming famous (not sure how he was during filming tough). 🙂 Btw I love that movie too
Sad we have to rear down all our idols. I only saw his work - and just know He was my number one guy I, and most friends, would have loved to be. King of cool... Thomas Crown Affair - just fabulous. 🙂
I thought the Steve was a great actor and those sceens that were pointed as being stolen to me as a actor who studied the art, , were of one who did his home work to create the role he played. Natural and true to form.....Not for the camera but for a real life character in the role...He will be missed....
This hatred is made up BS. They were rivals, no more no less. They along with James Garner came here to Riverside International Raceway a few times, when it and they existed. One trip on the way home, McQueen's wife Neile had to use the ladies room. They stopped at a gas station here on Alessandro that had a long line of women waiting to get in. So Neile told the women in line that Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and James Garner were sitting out front in a car at the gas pumps. She then moved to the front of the line while the other women went out front to see the actors.
AI couldn’t tell the difference between white actor Steve McQueen and black director Steve McQueen, and by merging them, it calls into question the credibility of the entire video.
Steve, although a unique and impactful Actor, was a selfish spoiled little brat, who was often accommodated, against the wishes of his co - Actors who became sick of his antics and basically thought he was a jackass.
Interesting: I've heard that actors can deliberately generate off set conflicts as a technique to carry over a kind of natural tension for the shoot. I guess it might be more relevant in cinema than stage because of the close ups on the face and the eyes. Michael Caine in his acting course said movie acting is all about the eyes, as opposed to stage acting. Certainly directors like Stanley Kubrick would inflict misery deliberately on his some of his actors to get the desired emotions. For example in The Shining (1980) as described by Rob Agar of Collective Learning. According to Ager, Kubrick also would continually revise the script day after day. I've spoken to someone in the film industry who says the final film is never the script. eg Orson Welles classic creation of lines in The Third Man. So maybe Steve Macqueen was a bit a head of his time and this became normal working practice later. When we were kids we loved the fact he did his own stunts, but now i think its a bit crazy especially after watching an interview with Bert Reynolds i think on HardTalk (Uk). In contrast to this practice of adding lines though there is Clint Eastwood who would jsut get rid of most of the lines as unnecessary. Either way non of them are as notorious as Clause Kinsky. There's even a movie type documentary jus on Kinskey's behaviour on set, you couldn't make it up. Steve MacQueen's scene steeling use of stage guns and bullets is jsut a small part understudy to Kinskeys scull duggery. But Kinskey was mesmerizing to watch.
At the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles includes in its collection a convertible Jaguar that belonged to McQueen, along with stories that Hollywood or Los Angeles police were instructed to overlook this vehicle.
This video is wildly exaggerated. Newman and McQueen were competitive, yes. But they hardly "hated" each other. All reports were they were very cordial and professional on set. They only shared the screen in about 3 scenes anyway. When they were on the elevator, later in the office and the very end when they had to blow up the water tanks. I know there were issues of billing and number of lines but remember: both by 1974 were at the top of their careers as A list actors and stars. Newman broke through a few years before McQueen but by 1974 Steve had done Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, Nevada Smith, Cincinnati Kid, The Getaway, etc. So they were both alpha males, and it's understandable that they would not want to be "second billed". Side note: Newman and Charleton Heston had been friends during the 1960's but by the 1980's their political differences had diverged. They went on a talk show to debate the US-Soviet Union nuclear arms deal in 1984 and Heston was widely called the winner, better prepared and better debater. Word is Newman never forgave him, and their friendship ended. Newman himself said after the debate, "I've been better and I've been worse". Seemed he just didn't prepare as well as Heston.
All are dead now; let's just try to forget this unpleasantness and move on. In any event, most of this nonsense is just conjecture and attention seeking mindless gossip, designed for content such as this. These were simply screen actors living in an unreal world.
