They don't only play badasses...

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  1. Farnan's Avatar

    Farnan said: July 27, 2012 11:40 AM

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    ... But are ones.

    A few actors are actually as impressive as the characters they play on the screen.

    Christopher Lee, also known as Sarauman, was a British Secret Agent in WWII serving in the Special Operations Executive. He also served in the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa.

    James Earl Jones was a US Army Ranger and helped found a Mountain Warfare School.

    Audie Murphy was the most highly decorated US soldier during WWII.

    Jet Li is an award winning martial artist.


    Anymore that I'm missing, I'm sure there are
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    Påsan said: July 27, 2012 11:47 AM

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    Guy on the left.

    He is playing himself.
     

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    Farnan said: July 27, 2012 12:36 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Påsan View Post


    Guy on the left.

    He is playing himself.
    What movie is that?
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    alexanderswift said: July 27, 2012 02:00 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Farnan View Post
    What movie is that?
    It's the HBO mini-series 'Generation Kill'.


    What about Michael Caine? He's a veteran of Korea and his first credited roll was in a movie set during the war 'A Hill in Korea'.

    Always Jackie Chan too, for doing his own stunts.
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    NikeBG said: July 27, 2012 12:10 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Farnan View Post
    Christopher Lee, also known as Sarauman, was a British Secret Agent in WWII serving in the Special Operations Executive. He also served in the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa.
    He's also a descendant of Charlemagne.
     

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    cupoftea said: July 27, 2012 12:14 PM

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    James Blunt?
     

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    Confederate Jeb said: July 27, 2012 12:40 PM

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    How about the guys from Act of Valor?
     

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    frozenprince said: July 27, 2012 01:09 PM

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    Mel Brooks fought in WW2 and broadcast jewish singers songs over the loud-speakers the germans used to pump out propaganda.

    Tony Jaa went crazy and left filming on Ong Bak 2&3 for 4 months to go live alone in the jungles of Thailand.

    There a plenty of actors that qualify as "badass". It's just what you define as "badass" that is the limiter.

    Edit: Fun side note about Christopher Lee, he worked along side (though I don't believe directly) Ian Flemming in the OSS during the war. So the man who wrote James Bond, was actually James Bond.
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    Kanaric said: July 28, 2012 06:29 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by frozenprince View Post
    Mel Brooks fought in WW2 and broadcast jewish singers songs over the loud-speakers the germans used to pump out propaganda.

    Tony Jaa went crazy and left filming on Ong Bak 2&3 for 4 months to go live alone in the jungles of Thailand.

    There a plenty of actors that qualify as "badass". It's just what you define as "badass" that is the limiter.

    Edit: Fun side note about Christopher Lee, he worked along side (though I don't believe directly) Ian Flemming in the OSS during the war. So the man who wrote James Bond, was actually James Bond.
    Hilarious that Christopher Lee is one of the more memorable Bond villains too.

    He was also on a metal album and did a rock opera along with that band about Charlemagne. Christopher lee is just awesome.
     

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    Farnan said: July 27, 2012 01:22 PM

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    An actor that is not a bad ass is John Wayne. He used his star status to avoid WWII.

    By the way Jimmy Stewart was a bomber pilot in WWII and Vietnam (when he was a super star).
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    Gaidin said: July 31, 2012 07:03 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Farnan View Post
    An actor that is not a bad ass is John Wayne. He used his star status to avoid WWII.
    Not to say he's a bad ass, but Wayne didn't do that. He was exempted due to age and classified with a family deferment. He didn't attempt to prevent his reclassification to draft eligible. The kicker is that Republic Studios intervened with Selective Service, and threatened John Wayne with a lawsuit to boot. By many accounts, Wayne's failure to serve was the most painful experience of his life.

    Not a bad ass, but hardly using his status as a shield.
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  12. Vizvii said: July 27, 2012 01:33 PM

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    Many famous American actors served and fought in WW2, including Clark Gable, James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Also Charles Bronson, who also worked in the coal mines as a child.
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    Jagdpanzer said: July 27, 2012 02:59 PM

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    The whole cast of Theirs is the Glory. All British soldiers in the movie were played by veterans of the battle of Arnhem.
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    Dr. Croccer said: July 28, 2012 08:21 PM

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    Harrison Ford has helped during several mountain rescues.

    During the Korean War Clint Eastwood was on a bomber as a soldier when it crashed into the ocean and he and the pilot were forced to swim several miles to safety.

    Danny Trejo was a criminal heroin-addicted delinquent in his youth.

    Mark Wahlberg was in a street gang and was arrested multiple times for assault,

    Samuel L. Jackson was a Black Panther who once took several people hostage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
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    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

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    athanaric said: July 29, 2012 04:06 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Croccer View Post
    Danny Trejo was a criminal heroin-addicted delinquent in his youth.

    Mark Wahlberg was in a street gang and was arrested multiple times for assault,

    Samuel L. Jackson was a Black Panther who once took several people hostage.
    The only badass thing about that is though that they left the path of crime and went on to become decent people.
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    Dr. Croccer said: July 29, 2012 11:05 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by athanaric View Post
    The only badass thing about that is though that they left the path of crime and went on to become decent people.
    badass [ˈbædˌæs] Slang chiefly US
    n a tough or aggressive person the meanest badass in town

    adj 1. tough or aggressive a badass rock band
    2. excellent a real badass watch



    Badass =/= heroic.
    Quote Originally Posted by A.J.P. Taylor
    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    The Despondent Mind said: July 29, 2012 11:45 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by athanaric View Post
    The only badass thing about that is though that they left the path of crime and went on to become decent people.
    The hard transition maybe , but just being descent doesn't makes you badass .
     

  18. Slowpoke said: July 29, 2012 01:58 PM

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    Christopher Lee managed to horrify the LOTR film crew when explaining in detail how a stabbed man should sound, depending on where he was stabbed.

    The cast of Generation Kill featured five (IIRC) Marines from the actual 1st Rec Bat.
     

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    D.B. Cooper said: July 29, 2012 04:43 PM

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    I came to say Danny Trejo.

     

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    Col. Tartleton said: July 30, 2012 10:32 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slowpoke View Post
    Christopher Lee managed to horrify the LOTR film crew when explaining in detail how a stabbed man should sound, depending on where he was stabbed.
    Yep, that was the coolest tidbit about the films.

    Jackson: "Why do you know that?"

    Lee: "You ever killed a man, fatty?"
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