Donald Sutherland RIP

[MikeThomas]

Klute…

What a great movie!  Nice to see Donald and Jane together. I remember when it came out. Haven’t seen it in years. Well worth revisiting.

[Johnrom]

Loved him in Ordinary People/.   Great story online about how Donald Sutherland took 35k salary to be in animal house.  He wanted 200 k. The producers wanted a star. They offered him 2 percent of the gross instead of a salary.  He declined. The budget was only a few million and the movie made 150 million, Which was huge back in those days.   When all was said and done over the years he missed out on a 20 million payday one article said.  Check out the story online. 

[MikeThomas]

Ordinary People… a great movie, but a tough watch. Viewing once was  enough.  

[BSR]

Yes, he was great in Klute.  Then again, he was a great in a lot of things, too many to list.  Two of my favorites were the silly but entertaining Dirty Sexy Money as the patriarch of a multibillionaire family and The Rosary Murders, an imperfect thriller worth watching for Sutherland's performance alone.

DS struck me as a real actor's actor, someone who loved the work and the craft.  He leaves behind a hella impressive body of work.

[Becket]

On 6/21/2024 at 10:05 PM, MikeThomas said:

Ordinary People… a great movie, but a tough watch. Viewing once was  enough.  

I can watch the scenes with Timothy Hutton and the psychiatrist over and over. Makes me weepy every time.

[Johnrom]

Yes. Judd Hirsch was fantastic as the psychiatrist in the film.  

[pleasureseeker]

Definitely Ordinary People comes to mind as well as The Eye Of The Needle where he's such a great villain and Don't Look Now for the best edited sex scene on film and its consistent super creepy atmosphere. Of course I haven't seen these films in decades so I'm not sure how they fare today.

[Rod Hagen]

I definitely should not have watched Ordinary People, I was too young to process it.  Give her the Goddam Camera!

I hear that in Don't Look Now, great movie, when Julie Christie (so beautiful and talented) and Sutherland were naked and getting ready in their bathroom in the evening, originally you see Sutherland's cock, but it was so big that for the rest of the movie the audience in Test Screenings wouldn't see the rest of the movie the same way, they'd giggle. And so, in the final edit, no cock shot.  That's what I remember hearing anyway.  Don't Look Now, SO GOOD.

 

 

 

Edited June 27, 2024 by Rod Hagen

[pleasureseeker]

22 hours ago, Rod Hagen said:

I definitely should not have watched Ordinary People, I was too young to process it.  Give her the Goddam Camera!

I hear that in Don't Look Now, great movie, when Julie Christie (so beautiful and talented) and Sutherland were naked and getting ready in their bathroom in the evening, originally you see Sutherland's cock, but it was so big that for the rest of the movie the audience in Test Screenings wouldn't see the rest of the movie the same way, they'd giggle. And so, in the final edit, no cock shot.  That's what I remember hearing anyway.  Don't Look Now, SO GOOD.

 

 

 

That's probably why the movie was called Don't Look Now 🤓