365 Drinks a Year: #47 The Christopher Walken
BRING ME THE PUPPIES!
Fact: Christopher Walken is my favorite actor.
Fact: Christopher Walken is an accomplished ballroom dancer
Fact: Christopher Walken will cut your heart out and eat it in front of your mother.
Fact: Christopher Walken can say or do anything and it becomes funny.
Any movie, no matter how terrible, becomes approximately 37x more awesome when it includes Christopher Walken. Which is why he's in every mostly-crappy movie made in the last twenty years. There were a few good ones in there and there's no doubt that Christopher Walken could win an oscar for best supporting creepy-fucker. But that, my friends, is not his place in the universe. This is the difference between Christopher Walken and pretty much everyone else in the world: he knows exactly where he belongs and he's totally cool with it. He's the guy that shows up in the middle of the movie and makes it a cult-classic. He's never going to be the big-money-award-winning-critically-acclaimed-asshole, but would you want him to be? Me neither. So today we raise our glasses to you Mr. Walken, wherever you are. (As long as you aren't hiding in my bushes)
The Christopher Walken
1 oz Light Rum
1 oz Melon Liqueur
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz lime juice
1 tsp sugar
6 oz lemon-lime soda
Let us know your favorite Walken movie in the comments!
February 20th, 2010 - 02:58
I’ll go first. My favorite Christopher Walken movie is “The Prophecy”. Walken plays an fallen angel come to earth to find the soul of the most evil man ever to live which he will then use to wage war on GOD HIMSELF. Anyone else think Walken writes all his own parts?
February 20th, 2010 - 07:25
I thought he was hilarious in that Fatboy slim music video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs
February 20th, 2010 - 10:17
Pulp Fiction. It’s not really a Christopher Walken movie, but he’s in it and he’s awesome.
“Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years.”
January 10th, 2011 - 06:56
True Romance!
January 10th, 2011 - 07:50
He was in a supporting role, but it was a good-un. The Rundown.
That’a a lot of cows.
January 10th, 2011 - 08:31
Walken played the Devil, in some movie involving souls, daemons and other living after-life ghoulishness. The Ol’Debbil was making the good guy hero do him a dangerous favor in order to save the fella’s innocent lover from the Old Evil One’s clutches.
Walken spent time observing events, while crouched on high rooftop perches, upon which he LOOKED pretty much fo’ real. I mean, you could just about SEE the invisible bat-wings languidly stirring in the ether behind his shoulders. There was also an entertaining psycho minion that was the official dragger-off-to-hell, who eventually suffered his own fave fate for betraying his boss.
Best as I remember, anyway.
January 10th, 2011 - 11:34
But remember 37 x 0 is still ……………….. Gigli
yes CW was in Gigli………
January 10th, 2011 - 11:52
I’m seconding The Prophecy. (Yes, it’s a terrible movie, yes, I like all five of them, even the last two that have no Walken at all.)
January 10th, 2011 - 12:05
@Dominique DEAR GOD! There are five of them now?
January 10th, 2011 - 12:06
@ThomasF Anything multiplied by the evil power of Gigli is zero.
January 10th, 2011 - 12:09
@John, the Red – I think you’re still thinking of The Prophecy.
Interesting fact: Viggo Mortensen actually plays Satan in the movie and does indeed drag Christopher Walken back to hell at the end. Which, for him, is a lot like a summer holiday.
September 27th, 2011 - 01:31
I am in accordance completely
October 18th, 2011 - 06:29
I couldn’t think you are more right
October 20th, 2011 - 13:51
I dont disagree with you.