Monday, May 14, 2007

The Tao of Steve

Steve McQueen has been dead for 26 years, and there's never been a big revival movement about him.

How come?

He was cool.

Shouldn't there, at some point, have been a period where the people who decide these things decided that Steve McQueen would be the dead icon du jour and his movies would get re-released and people would adopt his style, his look, etc. No biopic. If this ever happened, I missed it.

His widow has now published a book and there's an exhibit of photographs currently showing in London. So maybe 2007 will be the Summer of Steve.

Who could play Steve in a biopic? My vote: Heath Ledger.

8 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

I would also vote for heath in an extended shower scene

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Why? Was Steve McQueen especially clean? Or are we just aiming for a gratuitious scene here? (Rhetorical question)

Anonymous said...

If I am ever trapped in a burning high rise apartment complex, I hope Steve comes to my rescue with his giant hose.

JAW fan

cityofmushrooms said...

steve as steve
or heath as steve
or both?
(also rhetorical)

Anonymous said...

Gah! Heath Ledger?

Noooo....

It would need a more manly actor, a Daniel Craig type. Steve McQueen was a manly guy, Heath seems too boyish to me.Plus they'd lose points if they use that inane Sheryl Crow song....

cityofmushrooms said...

daniel craig also works

what sheryl crow song?

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Does Sheryl Crow have a song about Steve McQueen? I don't like her.

Daniel Craig would be an acceptable McQ.

Anonymous said...

Yes she does..it's just awful.