burt, archetype

For many of my gen­er­a­tion Burt Reynolds was our first tem­plate for what it was to be a cool strong adult man. 

He was one of the only movie stars my dad and I could agree on re­al­ly. For a lot of boys grow­ing up in the late 70s the Ban­dit was on equal foot­ing with Luke Sky­walk­er and Han Solo as the ide­al­iza­tion of the Amer­i­can hero ar­che­type. Where Han and Luke owed more to clas­sic hero­ic mythos, Burt made Ban­dit real in more lived-in ways. 

He was ad­ven­tur­ous, im­pul­sive and of­ten reck­less but also vul­ner­a­ble if you could just get past the hat. His brio and re­source­ful­ness weren’t un­lim­it­ed and each came from a place that was more ‘maybe this will work’ than ‘I have a plan.’ This was just one small yet sub­stan­tial piece of the Burt puz­zle but this most icon­ic role is prob­a­bly the most Burt role he ever played. 

Cocky yet self ef­fac­ing, tough yet not in­vin­ci­ble, a smar­tass for his own amuse­ment and an ide­al wrapped in im­per­fec­tion hop­ing des­per­ate­ly to be­lieve in his own legend. 

I loved Burt in more movies than I can even name and could write 5000 words on his Jack Horner alone. Hell, it’s part of Burt’s in­abil­i­ty to get out of his own way that his post-Boo­gie Nights ca­reer re­birth nev­er re­al­ly hap­pened (as I’m sure he’d admit).

Fore­most Burt was an en­ter­tain­er in the clas­sic sense of the word, up for any­thing even at his own ex­pense and failure. 

Rest In Peace to a true Amer­i­can leg­end. East bound and down good buddy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52mQiusewP0&app=desktop

#RIP­BurtReynolds
 
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2018 Ja­son Malmberg.

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