rydra_wong: From the film "The Last Flight": Nikki sits at the bar, smoking and looking ethereal. (last flight -- nikki)
rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2017-01-12 08:40 pm (UTC)

my current image of him is the go-to guy for fucked-up disillusion.

On the basis of Way Down East and Tol'able David, circa 1921 he seems to have been the go-to guy for "innocent farmboy", which I find amusing.

(Somewhere in the multiverse, Richard Barthelmess is Luke Skywalker.)

LaSalle found a quote from him where he described himself as "the screen's champion underdog", which seems like a common thread through many of his roles.

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