Farewell to Khaaaannnn!
Actor Ricardo Montalban passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Best known to 70s TV fans as the serene and slightly mysterious proprietor of Fantasy Island, he'll always be remembered by us Trekkers for a slightly more volatile role in his long and successful acting career!
Hopefully, the actor's final words were a bit more positive than Khan's (or Ahab's). RIP Ricardo Montalban, and Vaya con Dios.
posted by Elie @ 1/15/2009 11:52:00 AM -
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that guy was a real class act.
oh yeah, obligatory caption:
THERE SHE ISSSS!!!
Not so wounded as we were led to believe...so much the better...
Great line, as well as his Moby Dick quotes. But my favorite Khan line from TWOK was:
"He tasks me! He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up!"
Montalban's delivery here was beyond awesome.
David Pinto at Baseball Musings used the same title!
I laugh at the superior intellect. Remember how important that movie was to me at the time, and how insignificant it is now?
(Still a great movie, but I think you know what I'm talking about.)
(Yes, I do.)
I think there was a time in most of our lives when movies, or fantasy in general, played a much more important role than they do now.
But to echo your "Still", TWOK is *still* one of the best movies I've ever seen. Besides its strengths in all the basic areas that make any film good - plot, writing, pacing, characterization, acting, etc. - I always felt it was the only TOS movie that really, fully "got it right". This is particularly true in terms of the character of Spock, which was so central to the show's dynamic. From ST-IV and onwards, something was definitely off, or missing, in Nimoy's portrayal. Almost like the real Spock did actually, irrevocably, die at the end of TWOK.
That was a sad scene when we lost Spock.
Everybody loves a great villain. For example, I've heard that Margaret Hamilton was a very nice lady in real life, and great with kids. That never surprised me: to play a role as juicy as the Wicked Witch of the West, and do it as well as she did, you probably need to have that quality.
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