Like, if the fundraisers were unable to meet their projected cash goal, he'd blow up the studio. I remember the video box for Telefon from the old days: Bronson with a magnum in one hand, in the other an almost dimension-defying telephone receiver outscretched as if to say "It's for YOU, motherfucker!" From this cover image and the movie's title - which I assumed was in reference to one of those boring PBS pledge drives - I had imagined a sort of Speed-type scenario where a madman somehow rigs a live telethon to fit his evil mechanisations. Like leather or scotch, Bronson got better with age, so while his "solo" work may not be as good as the group adventures from the 60's, what the action icon came to symbolize - a weatherbeaten grim reaper - is one withered grape that is ripe for interpretation. Although his earlier work as an essential member of ensemble action epics like The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen is indeed significant and worthy of lengthy evaluation, I'm more interested in the last leg of his career when he was doing interesting work for directors such as Michael Winner and J. In this series, we'll be writing about movies from Bronson's post- West filmography. And for countless creeps and evildoers, Bronson was the grim messenger. 'Cuz I know that now, you'll tell me what you're after." To which Harmonica responds: ".Only at the point of dyin'." A beautiful double meaning: we only learn the point of dying. Nothing matters now - not the land, not the money, not the woman. It was that very "something" that held a morbid curiosity even for those he hunted, like West's lifelong sinner Frank, who grungingly accepts his ultimate showdown with Bronson's Harmonica by uttering the self-assurance "The future don't matter to us.
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Laying the action movie emblems and politics of the Death Wish movies aside, at his bare essence Bronson embodied a tenacious emissary of inevitable evisceration starting in 1969, when his avenger in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West was described as having "something to do with death." In his films from the 1970's on, even before things turned nasty and guns were unholstered, the promise of an ordained darkness burned like obsidian within that cadaverous expression, the only emotion registering from those beady, unrelenting eyes. He wore it on his face (next to the mustache): those worn features, greying, weathered, represented more than just a hardened resolve they were a final, ruthless image inflicted on those unfortunate enough for him to have visited upon. He died on August 30th, 2003 at the age of 81.In the latter half of his career, Charles Bronson became the angel of death of action cinema.
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He continued his acting carrer during and after the Death Wish series usually putting on his tough guy persona in the roles he played. Despite portraying a tough vigilante in the Death Wish movies he spoke out agianst vigilantism in the 1980's after Bernhard Goetz shot 4 young men who he claimed tried to mug him. However, Bronson, who was a fitness enthuiseast, kept in good shape and was able to perform all of the action scenes without stunt doubles. He was considerd old for an action hero resulting in the sequels to Death Wish to be panned by critics. He starred in Death Wish in 1974 and continued to play Paul Kersey over the next 20 years in the Death Wish franchise until he starred as Paul Kersey the last time in 1994 in Death Wish 5: The Face of Death. He served in World War 2 and began his acting carrer in the 1950's and over time developed a tough guy persona that would continue throughout his movies. He was born in Ehrenfeild, Pennsylvania on Novemebr 3rd, 1921.
Started the role and made his final Death Wish movie when he was 73. He was 53 when heĬharles Bronson in The Dirty Dozen (1967) Charles Bronson is the actor who potrayed Paul Kersey in all five Death Wish movies.
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