One of my favorite movies of Laurence Fishburne is the underrated 1992 Crime/Thriller "Deep Cover" with Jeff Goldblum and directed masterfully by Bill Duke. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
Terrible comparison! Just Cause is a mediocre film at best, besides Fisburne was only a costar in it and didn’t show his range as a talented actor, as he did as the lead in Deep Cover.
@@grababookfromthelibrary8374 14. He was 17 when the film came out, but shooting started three years earlier. Fishburne lied about his age to get the part.
That's one of those movies that you can watch and then start it over and immediately watch it again. It truly may be the greatest "movie" of all time. Like it is THE "essential" perfect movie, that encapsulates everything a movie should be! I truly cant name any other movie like that.
I’m 54 and “Lawrence of Arabia” has been my favorite film since I was like 10 years old. The directing, cinematography, and amazing casting are undeniably perfect. And introducing Peter O’Toole; what an introduction indeed! An absolute classic.
My Pop showed it to me when I was about 16 and I found it rather boring, long, and forgettable. It being one of his favorite movies, I decided to give it a try again to see if I would feel differently. This was when I was about 26. It was completely different. I fell in love with it. I've seen it many times again since then and I genuinely like it more and more every time I see it.
Shawshank is about a lot of things but to me it's mostly about hope: where it can take you, what happens when you lose it. Andy, Red, Brooks and even the young guy who gets whacked by the warden all have strong hope or lack thereof themes throughout their arcs.
OMG - he chose 3 amazing films. Watch 'To Sir with Love' so many times with my father when I was young and love that movie so much. Lawrence of Arabia is just a true Epic, and Shawshank is simply one of the best movies every made! Keep smiling🤘😃
I fully understand a producer, a director, or a film student saying Lawrence of Arabia. But hardly anyone else. The movie lasts 3 hours and 48 minutes and it is very slow through much of it.
I would have been curious as to why he listed To Sir With Love but Eisen went with the easy one. Sidney Poitier being the star of To Sir was probably a major reason, a black man in the sixties being a leading man. Poitier always struck me as being a class act.
Sidney influenced a whole generation of amazing actors and was THE role model for so many like fish and Denzel. Sidney was as good as anyone working during his run and starred in a handful of classic films at a time when few black men were being cast in starring roles. An all time great actor as well as a trailblazer
Cos Sidney got to be COOL in that one. A leader of young people who was hip and ultimately respected without the corny racial overtones or burdens of his other performances of the era where he had to show so much restraint and patience around American white folks. It's a performance that feels WAY MORE natural and relaxed than Lillies of the Field, In The Heat of the Night (which I love), A Patch of Blue or Guess Whose Coming To Dinner.
Underrated actor I think. When you talk about black actors today Denzel, Freeman and Jackson is always mentioned but Fishburne deserves to be up there too!
Agreed. Underrated ever imo. I got him 2nd to Deniro all-time. His range is astonishing. I out DDL 3rd cuz while has more "600 foot home run" performances, he acted less. And Fishburne has at least 2 of those imo. Ike Turner, Morpheus. But he also played the lead in Fences before Denzel brought it back. The dad in Boyz N The Hood. A cop in Mystic River. Two Trains Running. Etc. Etc. Astonishingly diverse career imo. Limitless range.
"I feel I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think that is the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at the of his journey, whose conclusion is uncertain."
To me that's the movie of the three he listed where you can come into at any point (assuming you've seen it at least once prior), and most fully enjoy to the end.
One of my favorite scenes in that film is pretty early and seems inconsequential. It is when O'Toole plays with the echo and says non-words to hear them bounce off the rocks. I don't know what it is but most movies would edit this out. I love it bc it highlights the humanity of the character. People do simple things especially in isolation. People amuse themselves. People want to experience where they are.
Saw TSWL in the theater when I was 8 years old and loved it. Loved the song, too, Had it in 45 and must have played it 10,000 times... I still love that song.
There are those people today who throw a hissy fit when an adaptation switches the gender or race of a character, even when it doesn't matter a bit to the story. I always bring up "Red" to them.
That's a great top 3. Laurence Fishburne co-stars in a couple of my top 25ers--"Akeelah and the Bee" and "Searching for Bobby Fischer." The man's a talent and a half.
Mr.Nobody..Me either. He did a fantastic job of that role. It's like a lot of memorable movies though, you try to imagine someone else playing such and such a role, but those other actors that MADE it so memorable, already own it.
Very refreshing to hear Shawshank Redemption. The movies you'd typically hear would be older, way more commonly said by others(like a Tarantino film), or a filk from their youth.
Great actor. He's come a long way since Apocalypse Now as Larry Fishburne. Lawrence of Arabia surprised me. Not because it isn't a great movie but just because it was unexpected. Every Sidney Poitier movie was great and Morgan Freeman is a national treasure.
Rich, Great Show. Laurence Fishburne's top 3 movies are fantastic. Laurence of Arabia and Shawshank Redemption are definitely 2 of my top 3. I'd complete my top 3 with To Kill a Mockingbird. To Sir with Love would be in my top 20 movies. In the Heat of the Night, The Great Escape, Spartacus, Deliverance, The Sting, Dr. Zhivago, Patton, Heaven Can Wait, Bonnie and Clyde, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Godfather I & II, Star Wars, Jaws, Rocky, Chinatown, a Clockwork Orange, The Deer Hunter, The Exorcist, All the President's Men, Animal House, Halloween, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mash, Hard Times, American Graffiti, Alien, Dirty Harry, The French Connection, Taxi Driver, Young Frankenstein, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Stripes, Blade Runner, Broadcast News, Three Days of the Condor, Papillon.
great list also one flew over the cuckoo, alfie, taxi driver , pellham 123, fugitive kind, the waterfront, scarface, casino, goldfinger, 10 rillington place, zulu, the odd couple, the apartment etc etc
Fishburne is my GOAT actor (or at least just below DD Lewis and Tony Hopkins) for Othello, Cadence, Deep Cover, Hoodlum, King of New York, Tuskeegee Airmen, Madiba, What's Love Got To Do With It, Seven Guitars, Thurgood...
@@stephanlegault6872 No that wasn’t it! It was his agent telling him they weren’t big enough rolls! His agent thought he should be the star of the movie not a supporting role. 😂 I heard Quentin Tarantino talking about it.
Why did I not know Steven King wrote that movie. I feel really stupid right now. It's one of everybody's favorite movies and I should've at least known that.
Well, if you really think about it, Shawshank Redemption was about an innocent man who was persecuted, made those around him better men, used the corruption of evil men to become free and brought, out of bondage, a guilty man. Sounds almost Biblical. Don't you think?
