"It's a Balabushka"
CrownCityCorey said:"Animal, wooooooooooo hoooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooh, ANIMAL!" - Vince.
LOL!
He's a fuggin idiot! That's what he is!
jay helfert said:I don't want to throw rain on anyone's parade, but Newman was brilliant in the role of Fast Eddie in The Hustler and should have won the Oscar that year. TCOM was an ego piece for Newman and his opportunity to reprise the Myron McCorminck role of the stake horse (in The Hustler). It should have just been named The Hustler II. After reading the book TCOM, I was disappointed that he and Richard Price, the screenwriter, weren't more faithful to Walter Tevis' story, which had many brilliant lines in it.
By the way, Newman did not do as good a job as McCormick in the original.I thought McCormick played the part to a T! Watch both movies and compare the parts of the two stake horse and tell me which one is more believable. Newman was a great Fast Eddie but only a fair "Charlie".
memikey said:We all have different tastes and long may that be so. For me it's an appalling movie that hasn't stood the test of time in any respect. I've never met anyone who has no deeply ingrained interest in pool who enjoyed it.
Watching it once was bad enough, watching it twice marks me down as too easily swayed by a simple love of pool. Would rather sew myself up inside a dead horse than watch it again now simply to find out what the last line spoken was.......so for me the best line was a written one that apeared on the screen, namely........."THE END"![]()
Cannonball55 said:I just had an idea for another thread that I'll include here instead - name the players and pool characters that appeared in TCOM - I can think of
McCready ( of course )
Grady Mathews
Jimmy Mataya
Steve Mizerak
JimGinPhx said:Newman should have got the Oscar for The Hustler,not TCOM.TH was head and shoulders above TCOM for a lot of reasons.TH was well written,truer to reality,had the feel of pool rooms of that time.TCOM was weak in a lot of its storyline.If TCOM came out first,it would have been a bomb.Because it had The Hustler as a reference,it was successful.
donny mills said:3 pages of this thread and nobody posted "It's like a nightmare is'nt it" ".
JB Cases said:I disagree and agree. First Newman played his role to perfection in TCOM. That said his role wasn't supposed to be a carbon copy of McCormick's role in the Hustler. His role was that of a former - could have been champion - who was hustling liquor instead of pool and stakehorsing locally who sees a chance to "get back in it" through Vince.
The thing is that McCormick did play his part to a tee but the movie wasn't about him and his part was done quickly. The Hustler was about Eddie and his own character. So was TCOM about Eddie and where he is in life now, not about Vince. So Eddie wasn't using Vince the way Charlie was using Eddie.
Charlie wanted a steady earner, Eddie wanted back in the game, to be playing instead of managing. He didn't want to be Charlie but it was the part that was familiar to him. In the end he knew that if he continued then he would become Charlie and that appalled him. He rediscovered that what he really wanted was to be Eddie Felson, known for his ability on the table, no hustle involved.
One minor correction, an actor only reprises a role when they play the same character in a subsequent movie. You cannot reprise someone else's role you can only play it. I think you meant to say that TCOM was Newman playing McCormick's role from the Hustler. Which I disagree with as stated above.
"What are you going to do when I kick your ass?" "Pick myself up and let you kick it again." "And if I don't beat you this month in Dallas, then next month in Phoenix" "Yeah, what makes you sure?" "Hey, I'm back!".
Time to watch it again.![]()
memikey said:All the players seemed to get paid in cash right after the tournaments as well![]()
memikey said:All the players seemed to get paid in cash right after the tournaments as well![]()