It was Eddie Murphy's movie, he said, and he realized then that Hollywood is very much a business. When he tried to get director Tony Scott to develop more of his character's story for Beverly Hills Cop 2, however, it backfired and several scenes of his Maxwell Dent character got cut. In the interview I mentioned, Prochnow said that he tried hard not to take too many bad guy roles after the success of Das Boot, but admitted that sometimes those dark parts are more complex and interesting to play then the hero. With the exception of playing a good natured dentist turned bounty hunter in Django Unchained, he's portrayed a con artist in Big Eyes, an abusive circus ringleader in Water for Elephants, and James Bond's nemesis Blofeld in Spectre. Just look what's become of Christoph Waltz since winning the Oscar for Inglorious Basterds. Hollywood is notorious for pigeonholing Teutonic actors into two categories: Nazis and villains. It probably isn't hard to figure out why.
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But while Prochnow has had a lucrative career, most of his international film roles have been supplemented with German films and television (not that there's anything wrong with that.) He's also had his fair share of bombs.
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After Das Boot caused a sensation worldwide, he was next exposed to American audiences when he starred in a Michael Mann cult horror film called The Keep (in an interview I recently watched, Prochnow was very proud to be a part of this film and considers it his big Hollywood role after Das Boot.) He then played the dashing, bearded Duke Leto I Atreides in David Lynch's movie adaptation of the sci-fi epic Dune (Lynch would later cast Prochnow in a small, strange role of the Woodsman in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.) Beverly Hills Cop 2 followed a few years later. That's not to say he hasn't been successful. But I can't help but think that his name should have been bigger in the States. Part of this is due, I'm sure, to attributing himself as a working actor and not a movie star. He has no social media presence (that is actually not surprising many smart celebrities don't touch Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) and there's only one "fan club" devoted to him on Facebook, the Jürgen Prochnow Appreciation Society (which I joined.of course.) Prochnow does not have an official website, even one run by a fan. Of course there were the usual array of interviews, and the standard IMDB and Wikipedia bios. After becoming fascinated with him while watching Das Boot shortly after Memorial Day, naturally my womanly research instincts kicked in and I decided to see what I could find out about the new man in my life. Now that that's out of the way, today is Jürgen Prochnow's 76th birthday. Please don't pronounce his name Jer-gen, because.well, that sounds too much like something else.
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So it's a word after all.)Īnd before we go any further, and just so you know, the j in Jürgen is pronounced like a y. (I just noticed that Blogger didn't autocorrect bigly. I wouldn't trade him, either.īut he should have been a huge star here. OK, if the answer is nein, I don't blame you. In fact, I'll trade anyone that's ever been featured in the pages of People magazine's annual Sexiest Men issue and anyone else that the Hollywood media deems that us warm blooded American females should be drooling over.because they say so.for your Jürgen Prochnow.Īll of these pathetic American "actors", you can have them all. I'll trade you George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, James Franco, Matt Damon, Ryan Gosling, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper, and Justin Timberlake for your Jürgen Prochnow.