Goodnight, President Frankenstein
The words “David Carradine” struck me as a hell of a Twitter trend to wake up to this morning.
I suspected that clicking them would not deliver me to good news, and I suspected correctly.
Quickly, I found out, as we all have, about the rope and the closet and the Bangkok hotel room.
Through sheer sad coincidence, I wrote about David Carradine yesterday in a capsule review of Big Stan that was going to run with a batch of other quickie DVD write-ups.
In Grasshopper’s honor, I shall let it stand alone:
BIG STAN (2007)
Director: Rob Schneider
Cast: Rob Schneider, David Carradine, Jennifer Morrison
Deuce Bigelow vs. Prison Rape. Sporadically funny, occasionally hilarious, stunningly cheapo jail farce casts Rob Schneider as the titular real-estate swindler. When Stan’s fraudulent sales practices land him a hitch in the pokey, fear of sodomy prompts him to hire David Carradine as a chain-smoking martial arts master, who educates our hero to high-impact anal defense. Stan then puts these slapstick techniques to work - hard - behind bars. As a world-class ball-buster, Carradine is an all-out gut-buster. Much footage is devoted to director/star Schneider showing off his freshly-buffed gorgeousness of the body. I think that’s charming.
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¡Viva el Presidente Frankenstein!
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RIP. You can’t question the man’s work ethic, even if he made some *ahem* idiosyncratic script choices.
As for the manner of his death, it’s as good a way to go as any. To quote a friend:
“When I’m 72 I could only hope to go out by means of having a go with myself, instead of slowly wilting away with lung cancer or some shit. Sure your kids and grand-kids are gonna have a bit of an issue with it but fuck ‘em, you’ve done enough for those wet-nosed little bastards by that point in your life.”
Daniel said at
Jun 04 09 at
11:20 am
Thank you for honoring the passing of President Frankenstein. He’s already dearly missed.
All I can wish for at this point is that Deathrace 2000 is available on Blu-Ray.
Penny Fine said at
Jun 04 09 at
11:33 am
