Robert Redford
Sep. 18th, 2025 05:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
setsuledRobert Redford passed away a couple days ago. He was 89. The first Robert Redford movie I saw was 1972's Jeremiah Johnson, the story of a young man who decides to take up residence alone up a mountain. I saw that in high school and my envy for the character's lifestyle has only increased. It was one of Redford's first successes though he's better known for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men. The former inspired the name of the famous Sundance Film Festival he started in Utah, one which has been among the most instrumental organisations for promoting independent film in the world. That alone would make him worth honouring in my book.
He was certainly the model of a movie star with perfect symmetrical looks. And he was a good actor. I admired his decision to forgo any kind of cosmetic surgery as he aged. Even with a face lined with wrinkles, he appeared in what I continue to consider the best MCU movie to date, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
