Jack Nicholson preparing for one of the most memorable scenes in movie history [1979]
The thing about this movie, they had to repeat scenes over and over again because the director wanted them to get crazed during the repeat.
What you’re really seeing here is probably nickolson turning crazy after what could have been the fifth time repeating, and that’s why he looks so unhinged. Because he wants to finish this and he’s not doing it right.
It’s not only him either, the rest of the actors were also getting attacked liked that.
Can you imagine repeating something over and over being told you’re doing it wrong when there’s nothing obviously wrong and you need to do it fast?
I’ll tell you, I’ll probably snap.
This movie and this scene ruined Shelley Duvall, she had to go to psychiatry after this. In addition Jack Nicholson and herself had to do the baseball bat scene 127 times.
It’s rumored that the final cut used for this axe scene, was Shelley actually crying and pleading Jack Nicholson (not the character Jack) to stop.
since we’re on the subject of james acaster, this is hands down the funniest joke in repertoire and it gets me every single fuckin time and i can’t even explain why it’s so funny
“Nonviolence is racist. I do not mean to exchange insults, and I use the epithet racist only after careful consideration. Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary ‘critical mass.’”
— Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State (via meatthawsmoth)
