I loved the energy of Stanton with his offbeat, dazed and confused bedraggled look. He made a great villain as in \u201cBig Love\u201d and could also be a loving and understanding (though unemployed and clueless) father to Molly Ringwald, teaching her about self-love, class distinction, and snobbery in the 1986 movie \u201cPretty In Pink.\u201d It was that movie that put Stanton in the mainstream. Even here, his character was still more than a little dazed: When awakened by his daughter, his first words are \u201cWhere am I?\u201d His range of over 200 movie characters run the gamut of bad guys, good guys, hero, and coward but his presence on the screen somehow left you with a visual you could not get out of your head and always having the best line in the movie because of his delivery. Not a scene stealer but just having the ability to take full control of that acting moment.\n<\/p>\n
Stanton became more noticeable as an actor after his roles in \u201cTwin Peaks,\u201d \u201cBig Love,\u201d \u201cPretty in Pink\u201d and \u201cRepo Man.\u201d He had a high-profile role as manipulative cult leader Roman Grant on HBO\u2019s polygamy drama \u201cBig Love,\u201d which ran from 2006-11 and recently appeared as Carl Rodd in the \u201cTwin Peaks\u201d revival on Showtime. Stanton had a good year in 1984, having several popular roles in Red Dawn, Pretty in Pink and Repo Man. Later film roles included a pair of David Lynch films in the early 1990s, \u201cWild at Heart\u201d and \u201cTwin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me\u201d; Bob Rafelson\u2019s \u201cMan Trouble,\u201d with Nicholson; \u201cThe Mighty,\u201d with Gena Rowlands and Sharon Stone; \u201cThe Green Mile\u201d; Sean Penn\u2019s \u201cThe Pledge\u201d; Nick Cassavetes\u2019 \u201cAlpha Dog\u201d; \u201cInland Empire\u201d and Paris, Texas.\n<\/p>\n
Stanton\u2019s performance in the film Paris, Texas written by Sam Shepard, was not so much powerful as it was intriguingly, sometimes hauntingly, absent. Roger Ebert said, \u201cStanton has long inhabited the darker corners of American noir, with his lean face and hungry eyes, and here he creates a sad poetry.\u201d In the cheerfully bizarre \u201cRepo Man,\u201d he played the boozy repo-biz veteran who takes young punk Emilio Estevez under his wing but provides at-best, vague guidance: \u201cA repo man\u2019s life is always intense,\u201d or \u201cThe more you drive, the less intelligent you get.\u201d Stanton was close friends with Jack Nicholson being his best man at Nicholson\u2019s 1962 wedding and they lived together for more than two years after Nicholson\u2019s divorce. The character actor\u2019s first step in emerging from obscurity was a part written by Nicholson for him in the 1965 Western \u201cRide the Whirlwind.\u201d Stanton played the leader of an outlaw gang; Nicholson told him to \u201clet the wardrobe do the acting and just play yourself.\u201d \u201cAfter Jack said that, my whole approach to acting opened up,\u201d Stanton told Entertainment Weekly.\n<\/p>\n
Stanton was never classified as an A List star in Hollywood but he was definitely a great actor and had his own style. I also believe by some of the parts he chose to play, he was a man of deep intelligence and did not take himself seriously when it came to acting. He took acting seriously, just not the career. When asked by producer David Lynch on how he would like to be remembered as an actor, his answer was: \u201cDoesn\u2019t matter,\u201d and you knew he meant it.<\/p>\n
Ace of Pentacles:<\/b> Inverted (Upside Down)
\nFinancial gain and knowing one\u2019s self worth. Pulled inverted, I am going to reach far here but I believe money was not the reason he acted. He would probably barter a part if he thought it was a good fit for him.<\/p>\n
Ten of Swords:<\/b> Inverted
\nChallenging times in life. Pulled inverted, it shows he turned his life around to the better. What actor as old as Stanton does not have a story of youthful decadence and ruin. I feel he had one of those life stories and then brought his life back for the better.<\/p>\n
The Hermit:<\/b>
\nGoing within and liking isolation or feeling alone even when surrounded. I believe Stanton was a self-contained loner that did not take himself seriously and just might have questioned at one time if life might just be a big cosmic joke on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harry Dean Stanton, \u2018Big Love\u2019 Star, Dead At 91 I loved the energy of Stanton with his offbeat, dazed and confused bedraggled look. He made a great villain as in \u201cBig Love\u201d and could also be a loving and understanding (though unemployed and clueless) father to Molly Ringwald, teaching her about self-love, class distinction, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1408],"class_list":{"0":"post-7357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celeb-news","8":"tag-harry-dean-stanton"},"yoast_head":"\n