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Pity they didn't mention Dune. Not the best film, nor a big role for him, but for young me it was still a wonderful experience to watch this. He replaced the imagined book version of Kynes forever in my head. Peace.

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First saw him in Three Days of the Condor, which I loved as a kid.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_days_of_the_condor

One of the most chilling monologues he gave at the end of that movie.

Sydow absolutely crushed that role. In the opening scene, part of the way the massacre, he's calmly trying to get his lighter lit. Creepy and awesome.

I don't know why, but the movie is available via the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor

Great find, thanks!

EDIT: The scene I referenced is 13 minutes and 43 seconds in. Also, I had forgotten that there were two shooters in the beginning. I only remembered 'the mailman'.

Does anyone know why it is available at the Internet Archive? I would not assume that the copyright had expired yet.

"Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world."

Dune is a great movie. It's just not completed. The first part, up to the meeting with the fremen,is great. Set, costume design, music are all top notch, and actors are all great. But it would be 6 hours long to fit all the book, and the producers didn't know they can split movies in two parts like "It" or "Kill Bill"

Wow I didn't know he played Kynes in the movie. In my head I pictured him for the role the whole time I was listening to the audiobook.

Oh yes, he played a great Liet Kynes. Appropriately regal and expressive.

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