Bruce Willis on teh intarweb
I've read through this whole thing because I'm fascinated that Bruce Willis would jump on a message board to interact with his fans and defend the new Die Hard movie.
So far I have learned the following about Mr. Willis:
(all quotes belong to the man himself)
-Real name is Walter Bruce Willison
-Will also answer to "John Mafuckin' Clane"
-Even being Bruce Willis and having producer credit on a movie does not guarantee creative control
-Len Wiseman (bonus for being married to Kate Beckinsale, minus for making the Underworld movies) is, according to Bruce, "the guy who not only brought Die Hard into the 21st Century, but brought it back to Life"
-Die Hard fans (pun intended) DO NOT WANT a PG-13 Die Hard movie
-In the course of discussing PG-13 vs. R ratings, and the fact that a lot of it has to do with swearing, exactly ONE person (in 1000+ posts) made a Mr. Falcon joke
-Bruce didn't like working with Michael Bay; also hates Joel Silver
-The admins posted several times that it was not Bruce Willis before his identity was confirmed
-His iChat name is docwhite@mac.com
-After posting his iChat name on a heavily nerd-infested forum in the middle of the afternoon, it still took 2 hours for someone with a Mac to show up and connect with him
-Encouraged one poster to "cowboy the fuck up"; was actually very courteous and respectful, even in that instance
-Has created a "mythology of Die Hard" which explains the essence of the series
-Is more than happy to fess up and admit which movies of his sucked and which were good
-"[Color of Night] sucked and somewhere, in the cut-out bins of Walmarts, is still sucking"
-[Also regarding "Color of Night"] "When the wang shot appeared in dailies, the Director promised me it would never be in the Film. But during the editing process, the Director got into a fight with the Studio, lawsuit followed, and as a concession, the Director got his directors cut, and he left the wang shot in-for all time. But it is a highly skippable movie"
-Told Robert Rodriguez that he would work with him "anytime, anywhere"
-Recommends watching "Lawrence of Arabia" and then "Venus" to see a great actor "at the beginning of his career being genius, and at the end of his career being genius"
-Regrets making "Sunset" and "Striking Distance"
-Is proud of "Sixth Sense", "Pulp Fiction", "12 Monkeys", and "Mortal Thoughts"
-"Perfect Stranger" was ruined by the producers, and most of the essential parts of the movie were cut out of the final version
-Regrets passing on "Ghost" and "The English Patient" as well as Andy Garcia's part in "Ocean's 11"
-Prefers to limit his late-night talk show appearances to Letterman
-Claims to have been on the Tonight Show once and mistakenly called Jay Leno "Dave" several times
-"accidentally burst out with a Yippe ki Yay Motherfucker on network TV" during a Nets game
-"Chow Yun Fat is the Boss of ass-whoopin'"
Even more goodness over here.
I've read through this whole thing because I'm fascinated that Bruce Willis would jump on a message board to interact with his fans and defend the new Die Hard movie.
So far I have learned the following about Mr. Willis:
(all quotes belong to the man himself)
-Real name is Walter Bruce Willison
-Will also answer to "John Mafuckin' Clane"
-Even being Bruce Willis and having producer credit on a movie does not guarantee creative control
-Len Wiseman (bonus for being married to Kate Beckinsale, minus for making the Underworld movies) is, according to Bruce, "the guy who not only brought Die Hard into the 21st Century, but brought it back to Life"
-Die Hard fans (pun intended) DO NOT WANT a PG-13 Die Hard movie
-In the course of discussing PG-13 vs. R ratings, and the fact that a lot of it has to do with swearing, exactly ONE person (in 1000+ posts) made a Mr. Falcon joke
-Bruce didn't like working with Michael Bay; also hates Joel Silver
-The admins posted several times that it was not Bruce Willis before his identity was confirmed
-His iChat name is docwhite@mac.com
-After posting his iChat name on a heavily nerd-infested forum in the middle of the afternoon, it still took 2 hours for someone with a Mac to show up and connect with him
-Encouraged one poster to "cowboy the fuck up"; was actually very courteous and respectful, even in that instance
-Has created a "mythology of Die Hard" which explains the essence of the series
-Is more than happy to fess up and admit which movies of his sucked and which were good
-"[Color of Night] sucked and somewhere, in the cut-out bins of Walmarts, is still sucking"
-[Also regarding "Color of Night"] "When the wang shot appeared in dailies, the Director promised me it would never be in the Film. But during the editing process, the Director got into a fight with the Studio, lawsuit followed, and as a concession, the Director got his directors cut, and he left the wang shot in-for all time. But it is a highly skippable movie"
-Told Robert Rodriguez that he would work with him "anytime, anywhere"
-Recommends watching "Lawrence of Arabia" and then "Venus" to see a great actor "at the beginning of his career being genius, and at the end of his career being genius"
-Regrets making "Sunset" and "Striking Distance"
-Is proud of "Sixth Sense", "Pulp Fiction", "12 Monkeys", and "Mortal Thoughts"
-"Perfect Stranger" was ruined by the producers, and most of the essential parts of the movie were cut out of the final version
-Regrets passing on "Ghost" and "The English Patient" as well as Andy Garcia's part in "Ocean's 11"
-Prefers to limit his late-night talk show appearances to Letterman
-Claims to have been on the Tonight Show once and mistakenly called Jay Leno "Dave" several times
-"accidentally burst out with a Yippe ki Yay Motherfucker on network TV" during a Nets game
-"Chow Yun Fat is the Boss of ass-whoopin'"
Even more goodness over here.

