A couple of thoughts that aren't exactly "senses-shattering" (as many a blurb on a Marvel Comics cover in the 1960s and 1970s would have it) that occurred to me this weekend:
- After watching the second Dirty Harry movie, Magnum Force -- this is the one with (SPOILERS!) the execution squad on the police department being secretly run by the
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Of course, Milius also consistently and erroneously referred to Briggs as a captain, so I guess he couldn't be bothered to actually watch again the movie that he co-wrote before he recorded the commentary track for it.
Pretty funny that Milius thought that his script for Jeremiah Johnson got jacked; makes me wonder just what sort of disservice he thought that Sydney Pollack, et al, did to it.
I also didn't realize that John Goodman's character in The Big Lebowski was based on Milius. That's pretty -- amazing, I guess. One hopes that the Coens exaggerated Milius' personality for the movie; if not....*yeeesh*.
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