Recently there has been a lot of talk about Bruce Willis on the occasion of his 68th birthday, which he enjoyed accompanied by his family. Retired from cinema due to frontotemporal dementia, the protagonist of such emblematic titles as ‘Die Hard’, ’12 Monkeys’ or ‘The Sixth Sense’ still has one last film pending release, but today we are going to make a stop at those titles that he most enjoyed as a lover of the seventh art.
Willis’s favorites
The actor had no problem answering the question about his favorite movies in a 2007 interview with Ain’t It Cool News, noting that they are titles that “I usually see between 3 and 5 times a year“. That surely does not apply to a film that had been released just the year before and that is the only one from the 21st century that we can find in his list of 16 feature films:
- ‘300’ (Zack Snyder, 2006) | Available on HBO Max
- ‘Alien, the eighth passenger’ (Ridley Scott, 1979) | Available on Disney+
- ‘Bullitt’ (Peter Yates, 1968) | Not available on streaming
- ‘The Godfather’ (‘The Godfather’, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) | Available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and SkyShowtime
- ‘The Godfather, part II’ (‘The Godfather Part II’, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) | Available on Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max and SkyShowtime
- ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ (‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’, David Lean, 1957) | Not available on streaming
- ‘Spartacus’ (‘Spartacus’, Stanley Kubrick, 1960) | Available in Filmin
- ‘The Great Escape’ (‘The Great Escape’, John Sturges, 1963) | Available on Amazon Prime Video, Filmin and Movistar+
- ‘The law of silence’ (‘On the Waterfront’, Elia Kazan, 1954) | Available in Filmin
- ‘The Last Picture’ (‘The Last Picture Show’, Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) | Not available on streaming
- ‘Patton’ (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970) | Not available on streaming
- ‘Reservoir Dogs’ (Quentin Tarantino, 1992) | Available on Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Filmin and Movistar+
- ‘Taxi Driver’ (Martin Scorsese, 1976) | Available in Movistar+
- ‘Red phone? We fly to Moscow’ (‘Dr. Strangelove’, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) | Available in Filmin
- ‘Raging Bull’ (‘Raging Bull’, Martin Scorsese, 1980) | Available on Amazon Prime Video and Filmin
- ‘One of ours’ (‘Goodfellas’, Martin Scorsese, 1990) | Available on HBO Max
Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick and Francis Ford Coppola they are the only directors with more than one title in this Willis selection. In addition, the presence of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ makes it clear why he had no qualms about appearing in ‘Pulp Fiction’, but it is evident that the most striking thing is the presence of ‘300’, one of the titles that hit the hardest in 2006.
The list may have changed somewhat over the years and the sad reality is that right now he may not even remember them himself, but it never hurts to know a little better about the tastes of one of the most mythical actors of modern Hollywood cinema.
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