Taps (1981)
Scott and a young Tom Cruise. Taps is Harold Becker's 1981 military academy drama.
Ronny Cox debuted in Deliverance, playing the most sympathetic member of the group, and then spent the 1980s and 1990s playing corporate villains of considerable menace.
RoboCop and Total Recall both cast him as an executive whose evil is entirely procedural, which was a deliberate inversion of the Deliverance persona and worked because audiences remembered it.
Beverly Hills Cop and Taps show the range in between, playing decent authority.
He is a working folk musician, tours regularly, and has released more than a dozen albums, which occupies more of his time now than acting.
George C. ScottScott and a young Tom Cruise. Taps is Harold Becker's 1981 military academy drama.
Kurtwood SmithRoboCop is the satirical action franchise that established the cybernetic-cop subgenre and one of the most accomplished critiques of late-1980s corporate. Paul Verhoeven directed the 1987 original.
Kurtwood SmithRoboCop is a better film than its premise suggests and a more subversive one than its marketing implied. Paul Verhoeven made a corporate satire inside a violent action film, and the two registers enhance each other instead of competing.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerTotal Recall is one of the great entertainments in science fiction cinema, and its pleasures are specific instead of generic. The women around him are sharply written and sharply performed.
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