RIP Robert Redford, 1936-2025

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/entertainment/robert-redford-death

Sundance has joined Butch riding off into that sunset.

He had a good innings. What more can we ask?

Yes!
He did his job so well that it would be impossible to do better.

An exceptional person.

I know almost all of his films and what he's produced.
This Oscar award shows the caliber of the person; he expresses concepts he firmly held.

An extraordinary person.

He will be missed.

all the good ones are taking the last train to the coast, as it were.

Sad day , only a few has made the level of contribution to the Media industry that he had done. imho.
Rest in Peace Robert Redford ..Entertainment Giant .

You know, Jakki.
What Redford represented went beyond his work as an actor, producer, and so much more.
He was iconic.
He will always be iconic.
His off-the-cuff speech (in Italy, that's what we say when someone is capable of speaking the way he did during the 2002 Honorary Oscar ceremony) always impressed me.

In our country, the Oscars are a ceremony that has always been very popular.

I think we've still won 33, but perhaps more for other roles related to production design, costume design, cinematography, and others in important non-Italian films.
I chose this link because for us, that ceremony is magical.

Not just that, actually, and here we return to the point that beyond rewarding art, the USA is incredibly important for all art, not just music. You always keep musical genres alive. In our country, they live for a certain period, then they're forgotten, put away in the drawer of memories.

You know, sometimes I sing "Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head," exactly when I'm happy and riding my bike (sooner or later I'll start riding again, maybe in a few weeks if everything goes well). BJ Thomas sang the original version during rehearsals, with a hoarse voice. I had that version; I used to collect the non-original versions, then I sold them all. The original, after a few versions with a clean voice, convinced Burt Bacharach to be chosen.

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Without This Cerimony , many of our films weren't considered important.

Others were, but they were forgotten.

Robert Redford's films will never be forgotten.

He was one of my favorite actors.
It doesn't matter if I wasn't even born when he was acting, but I still saw them.

Hollywood doesn't reward everyone, only a few.

With him, they gave much less than they received.

To think that actors like him were on the same stage is impressive.

And with a simplicity and natural elegance in receiving it that belongs only to the greatest artists of all time.

I've seen almost all of his films.

But he was also a successful director and producer.
At the most important film awards event in Venice, they awarded him an Honorary Oscar in 2017 (he received a very long standing ovation).

Some are the history of cinema, others make it, he was both.
I think we will always owe him a lot.
And it's something that can't be defined in words.
He was an art lover and lived for a time in Florence.
I wrote music because for me everything is a sound, like the sound of my fingers hitting the keys.
In theory, it would be better to let them slide, even if I type with both hands.

When I watch videos about Sinner, I think of Barry Levinson's The Natural (a brilliant director, his second film).

In one, he's serving in a bet during practice.
He hits the tip of a match, which lights, but doesn't break the match or move it at all.
Even in one, I think at Wimbledon some time ago, to catch his breath (I think on purpose), he hits the center of the net, where it's attached to the ground. He hits it so hard that he breaks the metal catch.

In the film The Natural, R.R. Redford plays Hobbs.
In 1910 Nebraska, young Roy Hobbs learns to play baseball from his father, who suffers a fatal heart attack near an oak tree. When lightning strikes the same tree, shattering it, Hobbs fashions a baseball bat from the wood, burning a lightning bolt and the name "Wonderboy" onto the bat.

The film was nominated for numerous awards.

Huckleberry that was a wonderful tribute Mr Redford and his craft. You worded that very well . And The Movie the Natural ,in concept almost brought me to tears, inspite of myself not being a big sports fan,.. I had not know he had spent time in Florence .Seems your country appreciates beauty in many forms .

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You know, Jakki, some people are magical in what they do.
I can't explain it to you, but some seem to come from some sort of parallel dimension.

That film isn't highly regarded compared to his previous successes.

Because the character becomes both narrator and sports history at the same time.

I was making a comparison, thinking of a quote from the fantastic tennis player, John McEnroe.
He often challenged Borg in matches where Borg was a very cold Cyborg and John was a sportsman beyond any scheme.

In Italy, most people watched Wimbledon (the tournament) and were enchanted.

The funny thing was a quote John said about the tennis player I mentioned.

He said: "He doesn't hit the ball, he breaks it!"

From that quote on, he really broke the net and the metal hook, stopping the match for 20 minutes.

That film took you to the heart of the American spirit of sports.
An old champion who returns and hits a home run (baseball).

With a special bat created by supernatural forces.

Redford played roles that perfectly represented the society he lived in.
And he brought it to us.
Often in our cinema, there's a fascination with the villain.
It happens in our comics too: those that remain are related to evil, one character is Diabolik, who still exists.
The Japanese are very attached to dark events, evil empires, and magic, however, and often the forces of good win.
Some manga have very elaborate stories: they're not as banal as they seem.
However, at least in the most famous American ones, the forces of good always or almost always win, with a few exceptions, even in films, which I won't mention
The differences between us, you, and Japanese productions.
Which, on a cinematic level, aren't very attractive.
Back to Robert Redford...
He always played the sincere, consistent, often, if not always, good guy.
Yin and Yang.
Even off-screen, he embodied what was expected of a person like him: consistency.
He was also an emblematic figure of respect for values ​​that we have lost over time.
He never lost them!

Sorry about the dubbing, but the images convey the part I wrote better.

I have the original trailer; obviously, the actors' voices should never be changed.

It makes a mess.

And often, they go out of sync, with improbable voices.

This is one of the voices that Redford found easy to understand.

In my opinion, Redford's voice shouldn't have been dubbed; it would have been enough to write a translation underneath.

I remember Jack Nicholson listening to a dubbing of his voice, getting up and immediately leaving the place where he was listening (he was disgusted).