CHARLES BRONSON

[Rack Em]

I think we should have a thread devoted to discussion of CHARLES BRONSON. BRONSON is clearly the best actor to ever live and an all-around superior human.

I'll start the discussion with a well-known anecdote about BRONSON.

He was actually born Charles Dennis Buchinisky but later changed his name to CHARLES BRONSON because he was afraid Buchinsky sounded "too Russian" for Hollywood. Allegedly, BRONSON got the name from Bronson Avenue in sign in Hollywood.

Feel free to share. However muggers shall not be tolerated in this thread.

 

[Rack Em]

And just to be super clear, we're not talking about that piece of **** Mickey Peterson who changed his name to Charles Bronson. That guy was an English mugger and he's lucky BRONSON spared his life for stealing his name.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Great thread idea. I love Vincent Price horror movies, so naturally "House of Wax" is one if my faves, featuring a young Bronson as 'Igor.'

I can watch the Death Wish series over and over, good stuff. An underrated Bronson movie is "Hard Times" starring CB and James Coburn.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Paul Kersey= one of best movie characters ever

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Fun fact: Bronson's family was so poor, he had to wear his sister's dress to school. I'm assuming this made him learn to kill people with his bare hands at early age.

 

[BobD]

I would start a Clint Eastwood thread first, but they're both badasses that would punk Chucky Norris IMHO.

I just wish Clint didn't talk to that chair.

 

[GEORGIA DOMER]

I think we should have a thread devoted to discussion of CHARLES BRONSON. BRONSON is clearly the best actor to ever live and an all-around superior human.

I'll start the discussion with a well-known anecdote about BRONSON.

He was actually born Charles Dennis Buchinisky but later changed his name to CHARLES BRONSON because he was afraid Buchinsky sounded "too Russian" for Hollywood. Allegedly, BRONSON got the name from Bronson Avenue in sign in Hollywood.

Feel free to share. However muggers shall not be tolerated in this thread.

Hold on a damn minute! Did u just say CB was afraid? U sir should be afraid, very afraid!

 

[Rack Em]

I would start a Clint Eastwood thread first, but they're both badasses that would punk Chucky Norris IMHO.

I just wish Clint didn't talk to that chair.

Fun Fact about both of them:

Sergio Leone, who directed Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968, wanted BRONSON to star in A Fistful of Dollars in 1964. BRONSON turned down the role and Leone then casted Clint Beastwood instead. That propelled Beastwood into Hollywood stardom.

Also worth noting, Leone said that BRONSON was the best actor he had ever worked with.

 

[Rack Em]

Fun fact: Bronson's family was so poor, he had to wear his sister's dress to school. I'm assuming this made him learn to kill people with his bare hands at early age.

He had to learn English at school while he was a teenager because his parent's didn't speak it.

 

[GoldenToTheGrave]

I would start a Clint Eastwood thread first, but they're both badasses that would punk Chucky Norris IMHO.

I just wish Clint didn't talk to that chair.

I'm not a conservative and I thought the chair interview was hysterical.

 

[Rack Em]

BRONSON used to drink between 2 and 3 dozen cups of coffee per day while he was on set.

 

[BobD]

 

[Rack Em]

That scene from Death Wish 1 inspired "Subway Vigilante", Bernhard Goetz, in the classic Criminal Law case People v. Goetz

 

[IrishSteelhead]

One of the creeps CB aces in Death Wish is none other than uncredited, baby-faced, Denzel Washington.

 

[Rack Em]

One of the creeps CB aces in Death Wish is none other than uncredited, baby-faced, Denzel Washington.

Oh that's a good one. Can anybody guess these other 2 muggers from Death Wish and Death Wish 2, respectively?

Jeff Goldblum on the left and Laurence Fishburne on the right

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Call me crazy. My favorite Bronson movie was "Battle of the Bulge." We were kids. They had just put up the first modern cinema with the large, wrap around screen and multiple projectors capable of playing Ultra-Panavision. There were big speakers in the front and back of the theater. And Bronson plays Major Wolinski, brilliant, and ultra cool. And he played opposite of the best bad guy of all time Robert Shaw as Hessler. (Piper.) I mean picture a bunch of us seven year olds sitting together in a theater, with the panzer tanks already running over plenty of infantry soldiers. And then the tanks come up to the barricades Wolinski's men threw up at the outskirts of Bastogne, and the Tigers are coming up and the theater rumbles with that sound, the light on the screen flickers and dims as the mammoth tanks run up over the perspective of the camera's. We all ducked.

Also liked Magnificent Seven, Riders on the Rain was good, and nothing will replace the early 70's films from Chato's Land to Mr. Magestyk.

Fun fact: can you imagine him being Jack Klugman's roommate?

 

[dshans]

Call me crazy.

"You're crazy."

Fun fact: can you imagine him being Jack Klugman's roommate?

... or Tony Randall's?

 

[phillyirish]

Call me crazy. My favorite Bronson movie was "Battle of the Bulge." We were kids. They had just put up the first modern cinema with the large, wrap around screen and multiple projectors capable of playing Ultra-Panavision. There were big speakers in the front and back of the theater. And Bronson plays Major Wolinski, brilliant, and ultra cool. And he played opposite of the best bad guy of all time Robert Shaw as Hessler. (Piper.) I mean picture a bunch of us seven year olds sitting together in a theater, with the panzer tanks already running over plenty of infantry soldiers. And then the tanks come up to the barricades Wolinski's men threw up at the outskirts of Bastogne, and the Tigers are coming up and the theater rumbles with that sound, the light on the screen flickers and dims as the mammoth tanks run up over the perspective of the camera's. We all ducked.

Also liked Magnificent Seven, Riders on the Rain was good, and nothing will replace the early 70's films from Chato's Land to Mr. Magestyk.

Fun fact: can you imagine him being Jack Klugman's roommate?

Interestingly, "Battle of the Bulge" was my favorite movie as a kid too! Except I grew up in the 90's but was just a history nerd who loved war films and thought the tank battles were bad*ss in that movie.

 

[TerryTate]

That "other" Charles Bronson is quite entertaining. The movie with Tom Hardy is on Netflix, worth a watch:

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[Rack Em]

Also liked Magnificent Seven, Rider on the Rain was good, and nothing will replace the early 70's films from Chato's Land to Mr. Magestyk.

BRONSON at His Brutal Best! Here's the original poster. A few of my buddies had this hanging in their house my senior year.

Mr. Majestyk is a wonderful movie and so is Chato's Land. Personally, I've always thought The White Buffalo was very underrated. And The Mechanic is a classic. Definitely one of my favorites.

 

[Rack Em]

That "other" Charles Bronson is quite entertaining. The movie with Tom Hardy is on Netflix, worth a watch:

NO! I SPECIFICALLY SAID NO DISCUSSION OF THE MUGGER CHARLES BRONSON!

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[Bogtrotter07]

NO! I SPECIFICALLY SAID NO DISCUSSION OF THE MUGGER CHARLES BRONSON!

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Why do bodies always bounce like they are doing a curl-up in Bronson movies, though?

White Buffalo was really cool.



I think the reason it was so underrated is because it cast CB as Wild Bill Hickok, and Will Sampson as Crazy Horse. Two unlikely castings based upon historical reflections of the originals. That put them behind the eight ball. And the story was improbable for both, at the time it supposedly tool place. Good story for a movie of that time though. I remember really liking it.

Wild Bill is truly one of my favorite historical figures. What is not really known about him could fill books.

Crazy Horses daughter died of a very treatable illness, if you were white. Both men died within months of each other; Wild Bill on August 2, 1876, at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon, Deadwood, SD., and Crazy Horse at Camp Robinson, NE, in the protective custody of the Federal Government after surrendering. Crazy Horse, leader of the Ogalala Lakota, was pretty busy in June of '76, and in fact all of that summer.

Cool story, bro, I met this beautiful Lakota woman at the Memorial, year before last, and she was from his family within the Ogalala. Probably a niece eight times removed. She had great stories.

 

[anarin]

I would start a Clint Eastwood thread first, but they're both badasses that would punk Chucky Norris IMHO.

I just wish Clint didn't talk to that chair.

Crazy talk...

 

[Bogtrotter07]

... or Tony Randall's?

No really Klugman and Bronson were the guys!

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Interestingly, "Battle of the Bulge" was my favorite movie as a kid too! Except I grew up in the 90's but was just a history nerd who loved war films and thought the tank battles were bad*ss in that movie.

Turns out my next door neighbor was in command of an artillery battery during the Battle of the Bulge. He said you worked as a loader whether you were in command or not. You worked until your arms felt like they would fall off. He said he was never so cold in his life. One minute you were freezing, and the next you were roasting. Once a command observer came up and asked him how it was going, and he reported. Then he asked the HQ brass how the battle was going, he was told to pour it on, because the officer said Mister L's guns were all that was between the Germans and Paris!

Thought you might like hearing that. This neighbor is a smallish unassuming man. But a few of them in December of '44 kept the tide from turning in the Ardennes!

 

[Fbolt]

IMO, The Great Escape was a one of his best films. Actually, one of the best films of all time.

Met CB's son once-he looked like the 70s version of CB (Death Wish) with the shaggy hair. Definitely not a badazz, but a nice guy.

 

[rikkitikki08]

Wrong Bronson I know, but has anyone seen Bronson the movie? Tom Hardy plays the character of Bronson, twisted and incredibly awesome little movie. Highly recommend it

 

[IrishSteelhead]

NO! I SPECIFICALLY SAID NO DISCUSSION OF THE MUGGER CHARLES BRONSON!

WWTRCBD???? (trcb=the real charles bronson)

 

[NDBoiler]

The Valachi Papers is one of my personal favorites.

 

[Black Irish]

"Death March" is a pretty solid Bronson movie. I think Bronson would've been perfect to play the character of Parker from the Richard Stark books.