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DENNIS HOPPER/ 2012
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Prints on paper: Portraits 3 | | Medium: | Giclée on Japanese matte paper | | Size (inches): | 16.5 x 11.7 (paper size) | | Size (mm): | 420 x 297 (paper size) | | Edition size: | 25 | | Catalog #: | PP_0251 | | Description: | From an edition of 25. Signed, titled, date, copyright, edition in pencil on the reverse / Aside from the numbered edition of 5 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs.
"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
- Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper -
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.
He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. "With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion."[1] Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper."[2]
He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in Apocalypse Now (1979) brought him attention. He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He directed Colors (1988) and played the villain in Speed (1994). He played another villain, King Koopa, in Super Mario Bros. (1993). Hopper's later work included a leading role in the television series Crash. Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release. Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s.[3]
Film career:
Hopper was reported to have an uncredited role in Johnny Guitar in 1954 but he has stated that he was not even in Hollywood when this film was made.[10] Hopper made his debut on film in two roles with James Dean (whom he admired immensely) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Dean's death in a 1955 car accident affected the young Hopper deeply and it was shortly afterwards that he got into a confrontation with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film From Hell To Texas. Hopper refused directions for 80 takes over several days.
In his book Last Train to Memphis, American popular music historian Peter Guralnick says that in 1956, when Elvis Presley was making his first film in Hollywood, Hopper was roommates with fellow actor Nick Adams and the three became friends and socialized together. In 1959 Hopper moved to New York to study Method acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio.[11] In 1961, Hopper played his first lead role in Night Tide, an atmospheric supernatural thriller involving a mermaid in an abandoned amusement park.
In a December 1994 interview on the Charlie Rose Show, Hopper credited John Wayne with saving his career, as Hopper acknowledged that because of his insolent behavior, he could not find work in Hollywood for seven years. Hopper stated that because he was the son-in-law of actress Margaret Sullavan, a friend of John Wayne, Wayne hired Hopper for a role in The Sons of Katie Elder. This role enabled Hopper to begin making movies again.[12]
Hopper had a supporting role as "Babalugats," the bet-taker in Cool Hand Luke (1967). Hopper acted in mainstream films including The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and True Grit (1969). Both of these films starred John Wayne, and in both Hopper's character is killed in the presence of Wayne's character to whom he utters his dying words. During the production of True Grit, he became well acquainted with Wayne.
In 1968, Hopper teamed with Peter Fonda, Terry Southern and Jack Nicholson to make Easy Rider, which premiered in July 1969. With the release of True Grit a month earlier, Hopper had starring roles in two major box office films that summer. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director for his improvisational methods and innovative editing for Easy Rider[citation needed]. The production was plagued by creative differences and personal acrimony between Fonda and Hopper, the dissolution of Hopper's marriage to Hayward, his unwillingness to leave the editor's desk, and his accelerating abuse of drugs and alcohol.[citation needed]
In 1971, Hopper released The Last Movie. Expecting an accessible follow-up to Easy Rider, audiences were treated to artistic flourishes (like the inclusion of "scene missing" card shots) and a hazily existentialist plot that dabbled in non-linearity and the absurd. After finishing first at the Venice Film Festival, the film was dismissed by audiences and critics alike during its first domestic engagement in New York City. During the tumultuous editing process, Hopper ensconced himself at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico, which he had purchased in 1970,[13] for almost an entire year. In between contesting Fonda's rights to the majority of the residual profits from Easy Rider, he married Michelle Phillips in October 1970.
Hopper was able to sustain his lifestyle and a measure of celebrity by acting in numerous low budget and European films throughout the 1970s as the archetypical "tormented maniac", including Mad Dog Morgan (1976), Tracks (1976), and The American Friend (1977). With Francis Ford Coppola's blockbuster Apocalypse Now (1979), Hopper returned to prominence as a hyper-manic Vietnam-era photojournalist. Stepping in for an overwhelmed director, Hopper won praise in 1980 for his directing and acting in Out of the Blue. Immediately thereafter, Hopper starred as an addled short-order cook "Cracker" in the Neil Young/Dean Stockwell low-budget collaboration Human Highway. Production was reportedly often delayed by his unreliable behavior. Peter Biskind states in the New Hollywood history Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that Hopper's cocaine intake had reached three grams a day by this time period, complemented by an additional 30 beers, marijuana, and Cuba libres.
After staging a "suicide attempt" (really more of a daredevil act) in a coffin using 17 sticks of dynamite during an "art happening" at the Rice University Media Center (filmed by professor and documentary filmmaker Brian Huberman),[14] and later disappearing into the Mexican desert during a particularly extravagant bender, Hopper entered a drug rehabilitation program in 1983. During this period, he gave critically acclaimed performances in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983).
It was not until he portrayed the gas-huffing, obscenity-screaming iconic villain Frank Booth in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) that his career revived. After reading the script, Hopper called Lynch and told him "You have to let me play Frank Booth. Because I am Frank Booth!"[15] Hopper won critical acclaim and several awards for this role and the same year received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an alcoholic basketball lover in Hoosiers.
In 1988, Hopper directed the critically acclaimed Colors. He was nominated for an Emmy Award[16] for the 1991 HBO films Paris Trout and Doublecrossed (in which he played real life drug smuggler and DEA informant Barry Seal). The same year he starred as King Koopa in Super Mario Bros., a 1993 critical and commercial failure loosely based on the video game of the same name.[10] In 1993 he played Clifford Worley in True Romance. He co-starred in the 1994 blockbuster Speed with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, and as magic-phobic H. P. Lovecraft in the TV movie "Witch Hunt". Also 1990 Hopper directed Catchfire, playing leading role with Jody Foster
In 1995, Hopper played a greedy TV self help guru, Dr. Luther Waxling in Search and Destroy. The same year, he starred as Deacon, the one-eyed nemesis of Kevin Costner in Waterworld. In 2003, Hopper was in the running for the dual lead in the indie horror drama Firecracker, but was ousted at the last minute in favor of Mike Patton. In 2005, Hopper played Paul Kaufman in George A. Romero's Land of the Dead. In 2008, Hopper starred in An American Carol. His last major feature film appearance was in the 2008 film Elegy with Sir Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz and Debbie Harry. For his last performance, he was the voice of Tony, the alpha-male of the Eastern wolf pack inside the 2010 3D computer animated film Alpha and Omega. He died before the movie was released. This brought the directors to dedicate the film to his memory.[citation needed]
Photography and art:
Hopper was a prolific photographer, painter, and sculptor.[18] His photography is known for portraits from the 1960s. His painting style ranges from abstract impressionism to photorealism and often includes references to his cinematic work and to other artists.[19][20]
Ostracized by the Hollywood film studios due to his reputation for being a "difficult" actor, Hopper eventually turned to photography in the 1960s with a camera bought for him by his first wife, Brooke Hayward. During this period he created the cover art for the Ike & Tina Turner single River Deep – Mountain High (released in 1966).[21] Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967 was published in February, 2011, by Taschen.[22]
Hopper became a prolific photographer, and noted writer Terry Southern profiled Hopper in Better Homes and Gardens magazine as an up and coming photographer "to watch" in the mid 1960s.
He began working as a painter and a poet as well as a collector of art in the 1960s as well, particularly Pop Art. One of the first art works Hopper owned was an early print of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans bought for $75. Hopper also once owned Andy Warhol's Mao which he shot one evening in a fit of paranoia, the 2 bullet holes possibly adding to the print's value. The print sold at Christie's, New York, for $302,500 in January 2011.[23]
In March 2010, it was announced that Hopper was on the "short list" for Jeffrey Deitch's inaugural show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).[24]
In April 2010, Deitch confirmed that Hopper's work, curated by Julian Schnabel, will indeed be the focus of his debut at MOCA.[25]
In May 2010 it was announced that Hopper will be the subject of an upcoming biography by American writer Tom Folsom, Hopper: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.[26] The subtitle is a direct reference to the Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.[27]
On the Gorillaz album Demon Days, Hopper narrates the song "Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head."[28]
References:
1. ^ Hornaday, Ann (May 29, 2010). Dennis Hopper's influential career came full-circle. washingtonpost.com; The Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-05-30.
2. ^ Unterburger, Amy L. (editor) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers - vol 3 Actors and Actresses, St. James Press (1997) p. 564
3. ^ "Dennis Hopper". The Daily Telegraph (London). May 30, 2010.
10. ^ a b Murray, Noel (December 2, 2008). Random Roles with Dennis Hopper. The A.V. Club, Onion Inc. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
11. ^ Noever, Peter. Dennis Hopper: a System of Moments, Hatje Cantz Publishers (2001) p. 258
12. ^ Charlie Rose (December 21, 1994). Dennis Hopper Interview (video). CharlieRose.com; Charlie Rose LLC. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
13. ^ Thompson, Linda. "Outings: Mabel Dodge Luhan House". New Mexico Magazine. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
14. ^ Brian Huberman About Brian Hubberman
15. ^ Egan, Barry (November 2, 2007). Keeping your hair on. The Independent. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
16. ^ Dennis Hopper Emmy Nominated
18. ^ Staff (February 20, 2001) Hopper art show opens. BBC.com, BBC. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
19. ^ Dennis Hopper, Jan-Hein Sassen & Rudi Fuchs, Dennis Hopper: Paintings, Photographs, Films (Amsterdam: NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Museum, 2001) ISBN 9056621955
20. ^ "Dennis Hopper". The Daily Telegraph (London). May 30, 2010.
21. ^ Fong-Torres, Ben (October 14, 1971). "The World's Greatest Heartbreaker". Rolling Stone: p. 2. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
22. ^ Walsh, John, "Rebel with a camera: Dennis Hopper's stunning photographic archive is revealed", The Independent, February 19, 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
23. ^ Judd Tully (11 January 2011). "Dennis Hopper's Shot-Up Warhol Blows Away Its Estimate at Christie's". artinfo.com. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
24. ^ Kelsey Keith (30 March 2010). "Dennis Hopper to be Deitch’s Debut at LA MOCA". Flavorwire.com. Flavorpill. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
25. ^ Finkel, Jori (15 April 2010). "Jeffrey Deitch's first show at MOCA: Dennis Hopper, curated by Julian Schnabel". Culture Monster (Los Angeles Times). Retrieved 2010-05-29.
26. ^ Murg, Stephanie (20 May 2010). "Dennis Hopper Exhibition, Biography in the Works". Unbeige (blog). Media Bistro. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
27. ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (14 May 2010). "Dennis Hopper book on the way". Jacket Copy (Los Angeles Times). Retrieved 2010-05-29.
28. ^ Mitchum, Rob (May 22, 2005). "Gorillaz, Demon Days review". pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media Inc.. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
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