Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunteris an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 March 1946
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
exquisite good japanese stupid takes turns
'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it's a good big, stupid American movie.
among cigarettes crimes higher lower men movies ranks seen selling stealing stupid versions
Among our many crimes as an imperialistic exploiter of other nations' cultures, stealing their movies ranks lower than selling them cigarettes but higher than killing their game. If you've seen big stupid American versions of France's 'Three Men and a Cradle' or, recently, Japan's 'Shall We Dance?,' you can only mutter: 'Guilty, guilty, guilty.'
everybody good sports
Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.
I'd like to do a bit of comedy.
dramatic formed movies suppose
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
complete food hard love
I love food. I'm a complete foodie. I love to cook. I find it very hard to say no to food. I get grumpy if I don't get food.
jfk people slight third
The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why did the third bullet explode?'
age definitely
'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.
jfk poorly studied subject trained
I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled.
amazing
If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
jones modeled
The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.
figured job
I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.
leaves
I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.
believe glories good grudge iq japan love tested
Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.