Monday, January 26, 2015

Betamax3000 on Harvey Keitel (a Bar Conversation)


So what is the deal with Harvey Keitel?


Hmmm?


So why not Robert DeNiro, then? I mean: Travis Bickle…


DeNiro is an actor; Keitel is a PRESENCE. 


I would say that Travis Bickle is a 'presence'…


Travis Bickle is a character: if Travis Bickle was a REAL person he'd be Keitel, not DeNiro.

(sips drink). 

Look: DeNiro has embarrassed himself, he has willingly become his own New York Hello Kitty cartoon, while Keitel obviously has no sense of embarrassment, ever.  Cigarette?

(step outside to smoke)

C'mon: walk around swinging his naked penis in a movie? No problem, does it all the time. Portray f**king Judas with a New York accent? Hell yes...

Strip him of all his worldly possessions and he would still be Keitel on the street-corner in a wife-beater T-shirt , daring you to make eye contact with him. 

(smokes)

Hell, he is the damned American Shroud of Turin, man, there's street-fight stigmata bleeding from his hands…


I think you're -- uh -- inflating the mythology a bit. He's still mortal...


If Keitel was mortal he would just be Willem Dafoe. My Keitel is the New Old Testament…


"New Old Testament?"


Old World in the New Times. Judas is the new Moses: it's all going to turn to salt soon enough...


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