In Hard Target (1993), John Woo gave character actor Wilford Brimley one of his strangest supporting roles ever, cajun moonshiner, Uncle Douvee. He enjoys his homemade liquor, helps patch up our hero, uses his archery skills to aid the hero in his plight and flees on horseback as his moonshine shack is blown to smithereens by the ruthless bad guys. Brimley mumbles, speaks gibberish and laughs in-between those plot points, providing a strangely comic counterpoint to the absurdist action that has come before. True, it is a performance of histrionics and externals, but the whole film is built as a histrionic re-working of the beats of the Hollywood action film.
This is a pictoral appreciation of that character and performance.
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