COOPER AND HEMINGWAY: THE TRUE GEN
A feature documentary | A New York Times Critics Pic
www.cooperhemingway.com
Narrated by Sam Waterston
Voice of Hemingway by Len Cariou
Written and Directed by John Mulholland
Produced by Richard Zampella & Shannon Mulholland
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen is a feature documentary on the 20 year friendship of writer Ernest Hemingway and actor Gary Cooper who died only seven weeks apart in 1961.
Quotes reflecting why Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway resonate today:
“Among my
biggest literary influences would be For Whom The Bell Tolls. Robert Jordan is
an inspiration to me.”
PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA
“High
Noon is my favorite movie. Any time you’re alone and feel you’re not getting
the support you need, Gary Cooper’s Will Kane becomes the perfect
metaphor.”
PRESIDENT
BILL CLINTON
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“Ernest
Hemingway influenced more writers in the 20th Century than any other writer. By
far.”
ELMORE
LEONARD, author
“Gary
Cooper was the perfect image for our campaign to get people to vote. We’d never
had free elections in Poland. I am always so touched when people ask me to
autograph that image of Gary Cooper from our campaign poster.”
LECH
WALESA, President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize
"Even
someone like me, who didn't operate consciously under Hemingway's shadow, was
still touched by Hemingway's shadow. He had an enormous influence on male
writing in America, and his echoes … are to be found almost everywhere.”
JUNOT
DIAZ, author
"I
had dreams - fantasies really - about acting. I watched Gary Cooper as a boy.
That's who I wanted to be, Gary Cooper.”
DJIMON
HOUSOU, actor, from Benin, West Africa
“Robert
Jordan was everything I ever wanted to be. I was thrilled by him. I knew that Robert Jordan, if he were in the
next cell to mine, he would be stoic, he would be strong, he would be tough, he
wouldn't give up. And Robert Jordan would expect me to do the same thing.”
SENATOR
JOHN MCCAIN
“I love
Gary Cooper. High Noon is my favorite film.”
JUNICHIRO
KOIZUMA, PRIME MINISTER, JAPAN
"At
times I couldn't help feeling like The Old Man and the Sea," Against
tremendous odds, I had caught a big fish, but on the long voyage back to shore,
the prized catch had been picked to pieces by sharks," PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
"In
only one scene in the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture,
WINGS, we see the future of screen acting in the form of Gary Cooper. He is
quiet and natural, somehow different from the other cast members. He does
something mysterious with his eyes and shoulders that is much more like 'being'
than 'acting'. "
TOM
HANKS, actor
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“Stoicism,
grace under pressure, the 20th century heroism. Hemingway created the whole
idea of the anti-fascist hero. I mean you can't really have Casablanca and
Humphrey Bogart and all those characters without the Hemingway character. They
all kind of derive from Robert Jordan.”
ROBERT
STONE, author
“I don't
particularly like westerns as a genre, but I do love certain westerns. ''High
Noon'' means a lot to me - I love the purity and the honesty, I love Gary
Cooper in that film.”
DANIEL
DAY-LEWIS, actor
“Several
people, familiar with my own work, find it surprising that I should be a
Hemingway enthusiast. Hemingway’s achievement … was to get his effects by
making the reader do the work. … if one tries to write like Hemingway without
understanding that, one ends up with merely a Hemingway gloss. It is not simply
physical action but the action of the physical world upon the individual that
is important in Hemingway’s work and in his thought, too,”
TOM
STOPPARD, playwright
“Gary
Cooper was … a phenomenon – his ability to take something and elevate it, give
it such a dignity … Cooper was such a presence.”
AL
PACINO, actor
Hemingway.
Those sentences just knock me out. The thing about Hemingway sentences is that
they are really loaded. Every comma and absence of a comma makes a huge
difference, and it's really been deliberated.”
JOAN
DIDION, author
“Just
play it like Gary Cooper.”
PHILLIP
KAUFMAN, directing Sam Shepard in THE RIGHT STUFF
“That
Ernest Hemingway is able to convince me that Santiago’s battle is not in vain;
that there are other powers in the world besides fear and greed; that every
form of life has its own dignity and beauty, is his strength and importance as
a writer. For one does not need to be a tuna fisherman to appreciate the true
glory of this little masterpiece.”
NANCY SPAIN,
journalist
“Cooper
put his whole career on the block in the face of the McCarthyite witch-hunters
who were terrorizing Hollywood. He was subjected to a violent underground
pressure campaign by John Wayne and others aimed at getting him to leave the
film, and he was told that unless he agreed to do so, he, too, would be
blacklisted in Hollywood for the rest of his life. But Cooper believed in me.
He saw it through. He was the only big one who tried. The only one.”
CARL FOREMAN,
screenwriter, director, producer
“If a man
has a conscience … he might think about air power some time.”
ERNEST
HEMINGWAY (from 1950), and as current as drone warfare in 2014.
“Where
are you, Gary Cooper, now that we need you?”
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Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
www.cooperhemingway.com | Twitter: @coophem
Narrated by Sam Waterston
Voice of Hemingway by Len Cariou
Written and Directed by John Mulholland
Produced by Richard Zampella & Shannon Mulholland
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