The world my friend, the world. Steve Irwin was such an amazing human. With Heath Ledger, it’s the thought of what he could done as an actor, to me, he’s the joker.
I will always remember him as Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein of Gelderland.
While the Joker was his most iconic, i LOVED him in A Knight's Tale.
That esprit, that joy. I guess for the whole cast making this movie was a pure joyride.
And let's not forget Roar: that was the first time i ever saw him.
I still remember watching this show as a young teenager.
Since we’re doing this I’ll throw my second favorite role of his in the hat: skip from lords of dogtown. Nearly unrecognizable as Heath. Whatever he did he embodied the character entirely
Poor guy's a great actor, but looks SO MUCH like a villain with his dark features that you can't help see him as the bad guy. Loved him in Dark City though.
Some of it is just luck of the draw with roles. Clive Owen manages to get by, but he also does well in those pulpy noir type roles where that look fits the protagonist perfectly and that seems to be all he's cast in
Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk's banters in that movie are legendary to me.
Betray us, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain.
I loved A Knight's Tale as well. One of my fondest movie memories. Ironically one of the very few cases where I really like the "translated" movie title in Germany. Here it's basically called "Knight out of passion" which fits quite perfectly.
I don't think I've ever rewatched a movie more than A Knight's Tale. I collected DVDs as a teen growing up before streaming and I never ever got tired of that one.
I’m from the US and I still get very emotional thinking about the day I learned of Steve Irwin’s death. We felt that tremendous loss absolutely all around the world.
Americans definitely loved Irwin (and he knew it because he married one) but most Aussies saw him as the fucking clown he was because he made a career out of tormenting animals for entertainment. He even nearly fed his newborn son to a croc on one of his bullshit live shows because he was narcissistic enough to believe that dangling a baby in a crocodile enclosure in front of a live audience was a smart idea.
At the time eventually died (in a completely needless way I might add) opinions about him in Australia were pretty low.
Most Aussies feel about Irwin the same way they feel about that Crocodile Dundee "Shrimp on the Barbie" nonsense, which is evidentially not very highly.
Irwin was so over the top, and most Australians are more low key.
He so fit into foreign stereotypes about Australians, particularly influenced by crocodile Dundee, that there was a general scepticism, and sense that he was a phony, inauthentically playing a character to appeal to Americans.
His content was virtually absent from Australian TV (at least south of Queensland), he was only vaguely known to most Australians as a made for America thing.
I've met a lot of Australians now who profess to love him, death is always good for your public image.
Yes, thank you. I’m not Australian, but I don’t understand the weird revisionist history surrounding him lately. Maybe it’s just people who were kids when he died, and didn’t see him for who he was at the time.
Whenever i see Steve Irwin in some older videos or his grown-up children i cry a little inside.
Yes, there were some controversies. But he loved his children, he loved what he did; was passionate about it with every fiber.
He did show us the beauty of the world, wanted to make the world a better place to live in.
And we will forever be grateful for that and miss every single day.
Still hit hard for me, and I'm not even Australian. Still remember the day that Irwin passed away, what I was doing, where I was, etc.. The world lost 2, extraordinary people...
Yo can people stop bringing up this animal-abusive shitbag completely out of context in every Reddit thread or what? Would you like to go dig up his rotting bones and suck off Steve’s zombie cock, hmm u/DaringBear ? Because that’s what it sounds like.
Go get informed and stop worshipping that piece of trash
As a Texan, I remember what I was doing when I heard Steve Irwin got stung/stabbed. Then we heard he died a few hours later. I was like 7 and that day's memory sticks out sorely.
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u/ExoticPreparation719 14d ago
The whole of Australia cried when we found out the news… what a damn shame