Fun fact: Caltech wouldn't let the director film RG on campus, as they thought it showed Caltech in a poor light (quite wrong about that!).

But the director did hire Caltech students as extras, as the director put it, the costume director could not duplicate the look of them.

The student pranks and such in the movie actually happened, except the last one and the voice of god one.

Also "Willow", one of mine, and IMO one of the best fantasy movies Hollywood ever produced.

And of course the iconic role in "Top Gun", and the silly but classic "Top Secret"

As the article notices, he really had a wide range. Probably my favorite actor of his generation.

Willow is one of the most ignored, underrated movies ever.

It did eventually did get a series, although I guess the series was let down and there are people who wish it had been ignored a little longer.

It's absolutely a classic though. It's a shame that the genre isn't as popular as it used to be.

The series was so bad that Disney took it down from their streaming service.

It did get on a bunch of "most watched" lists, and it wasn't grimdark like all fantasy needs to be nowadays.

I'd argue it's much easier to make an iconic movie (you shoot and statistically at some point you hit) than a good series based on it (you already have the expectations set high, you need to surprise so as not to bore but keep consistency with the overall mood etc. - a very demanding task).

And don't forget Doc Holliday in Tombstone, such a great role

"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

This quote has lived in my brain since I was 7.

An excellent prompt to test AI image generators

Amazing movie! His physical comedy acting was really special

"You are unsafe ..."