Tag: Dustin Hoffman

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #41

    Revisionist Westerns During the 1960s at the height of the Vietnam War, a new sub-genre within the Western genre was starting to take hold i.e. the Revisionist Western. What was now becoming increasingly mainstream within Westerns was a new view that subverted the old myths, romances and traditions that had stood the genre for so…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #31

    Is it safe ? A great anecdote in regards to the filming of Marathon Man, released in 1976, is the often quoted exchange between its two stars, Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier concerning their different approaches to acting. Hoffman, a disciple of method acting, is purported to have prepared for a scene where his character…