YouTube Hall of Fame: "The Color of Money"

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Here's a cute ditty about Tom Cruise's role as Vincent in "The Color of Money." Apparently, this one snippet of the flick made YouTube Hall of Fame. Out of all of Tom Cruise's roles, I think it's kind of cool that this is the one chosen.

In 1986, Tom Cruise went supernova. In May, he pulled a 4G negative dive as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in Top Gun. This may be an act of rewriting movie history, but I feel like Top Gun gave Cruise a license to print money as a box-office draw. The movie he released that October, The Color of Money, made him a movie star.

I remember seeing this movie when I was pretty young on VHS. It's still one of my favorite Scorsese movies, one of my favorite Richard Price scripts, one of my favorite Newman performances, one of my favorite John Turturro supporting roles, and maybe the best movie ever made about the joys and frustrations of both teaching and gambling. But it's not for everybody. It's moody, it has a serious tonal shift in the third act, and it's basically about some adult shit that you don't fully grasp until you've, at least once in your life, truly succeeded and truly screwed up that success.

The "Werewolves of London" scene almost never was. In Price's shooting script, Cruise's Vincent character hustles Moselle to a soundtrack of James Brown. This is frankly unfathomable. It would be like Robert Duvall air-raiding the beach in Apocalypse Now to the sounds of James Taylor instead of "Ride of the Valkyries." Thankfully, Scorsese or his composer/de facto music supervisor, Robbie Robertson (of The Band fame), made the call to go with Warren Zevon.

This scene served as a cinematic awakening for me. Yes, that sounds completely pretentious. But I still remember, like it was yesterday, watching this and becoming aware of two things: what a director did, and what a movie star did.

Read more ---> YouTube HOF: Cruise It or Lose It

Check it out: The Color of Money YouTube HOF Winner
 

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Interestingly, when Keith was first contacted by the TCOM producers, he was hoping to get the role of Moselle the Cowboy, played by Bruce Young, but they decided to give him Grady Seasons instead. And the rest, as they say, is history.
 

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Thank you for sharing. The London of Werewolf scene motivated me to go out and visit different pool halls in my city.
 
I love that scene but my favorite is when he tells "Grady" up your ass with the spot.... Awesome. On the Werewolve scene I always catch the 5 ball shot, when he shoots the 4 the leave on the 5 is tough. When it shows him actually shooting it, it is straight in. Don't know why it bugs me, retarded I guess.:D
 
IMHO the only thing wrong with the The Color of Money movie was Tom Cruise. I've just never liked his acting, or should I say over-acting (with the exception of Born on the Fourth of July).

The game shown in most trailers (the one against the black guy wearing a cowboy hat) is an embarrassing joke: Cruise prancing around the table like a hotshot when every shot was a simple stop-shot that a C-player could have made. Wooooohooooo!

Paul Newman's performance was not up to his standards, especially compared to one of his greatest performances: The Hustler.

I know the movie was good for pool, but all around it was a pretty horrible movie.
 
Yeah that scene was all stop shots, but you know, the first time I saw it i was so caught up with the music and Cruise, I didn't notice.



- Jeff in Frisco
 
My team starts out every league match with a tequila shooter and a " go in strong, and come out shooting"
Followed by a howl......werewolf style
Ahooooo

Courtesy of tcom :)
 
But without the TCOM, we would not have one of my favorite Hustle stories from CJ Wiley... " You saw the movie, right?". LOL
 
jeffj2h said:
Yeah that scene was all stop shots, but you know, the first time I saw it i was so caught up with the music and Cruise, I didn't notice.



- Jeff in Frisco
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Reminds me of an Earl interview "He makes a stop shot and you people act like he did something great. He was fortunate...."

same one with "they scrutinized my fingers, took them away"
 
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