Sunday, September 02, 2007

AUGUST's 20 Movies' Most Stylish Men




Screening on Sunday, September 02, 2007

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AUGUST MAN
The Definitive Men’s Journal
Icons Issue
April 2007

We single out the coolest, classiest men ever to grace the silver screen.
By CHRISTIAN BARKER

JAY GATSBY Robert Redford
(The Great Gatsby, 1974)
The entire cast dressed to the nines by then up-and-coming designer Ralph Lauren. Redford’s doomed bootlegger stands out as a prohibition-era fashion plate in this adaptation of Fitzgerald’s classic tome.

THOMAS CROWN Steve McQueen
(The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968)
This role saw McQueen depart from his working-class roots for the first time to portray a tycoon / part-time master thief whose clothes (and mind) are always on the money.

MICHAEL CORLEONE Al Pacino
(The Godfather Part II, 1974)
Pacino, cuts a sharp figure in most of his films, perfectly channels late-fifties Vegas chic here (dig those cravats and slicked-back coif) as the reluctant mafia boss struggling with his deeds and duties as Don.

ROGER THORNHILL Cary Grant
(North by Northwest, 1959)
Grant always looked the business and never more so than in this Hitchcock classic where our hero survives all manner of life-threatening situations clad in a single sharp – and seemingly uncreasable – grey suit

ACE ROTHSTEIN Robert De Niro
(Casino, 1995)
Like Pacino, we could’ve gone with any number of De Niro’s roles, but Vegas mob number-cruncher Rothstein strikes just the right balance of outlandish and businesslike for our tastes.

RICK BLAINE Humphrey Bogart
(Casablanca, 1942)
Bogie in a trench coat is the image from Casablanca that springs most readily to mind, but Humphrey’s harried bar owner Rick Blaine displays several other cool looks in this masterpiece – notably the sweet white-jacketed tux.

DANNY OCEAN Frank Sinatra
(Ocean’s Eleven, 1960)
Sure, Clooney, Pitt and pals are hipness incarnate in the remake, but we can’t go past the Rat Pack-stacked for smooth Sy Devoure-suited sartorial presence. Playing debonair criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, Frank Sinatra steals the show despite stiff stylistic competition from co-stars Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr.

JAMES BOND Sean Connery
(From Russia With Love, 1963)
You couldn’t possibly run a list of cinema’s coolest characters and leave out James Bond – the ultimate gentleman spy. In From Russia From Love, Connery’s unbeatable Bond brings a new level of sartorial polish to international espionage.

JJ ‘JAKE’ GITTES Jack Nicholson
(Chinatown, 1974)
Nicholson would be the quintessential snappy 1930s gumshoe in this seminal Roman Polanski-directed classic but for the fact that he prides himself on his leather-soled Florsheims. This private dick clearly has a nose for style.

HARRY CALLANGHAN Clint Eastwood
(DIRTY HARRY, 1971)
No-nonsense cop ‘Dirty’ Harry Callaghan’s suits – cut to accommodate the bulk of a shoulder-holstered .44 Magnum – are so effortlessly cool they could blow your head clean off. Lucky punk.


THOMAS CROWN Pierce Brosnan
(THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, 1999)
In this remake of the sixties classic, then newly-minted Bond Pierce Brosnan managed to look almost as smart as Steve McQueen did in the classy original. Here, Brosnan’s crime-capering corporate titan carries off golf chic with supreme panache.

VICENT FREEMAN Ethan Hawke
(Gattaca, 1997)
Hawke’s character may be genetically ‘invalid’ in this uber-stylish tale of a eugenic, dystopian future, but his identikit ‘fit in to stand out’ suiting is absolutely faultless.


RON BURGUNDY Will Ferrell
(Anchorman: The legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004)
Proving that “he’s kind of a big deal”, the legendary anchorman rocks a mean mo’, “suits so fine they made Sinatra look like a hobo”, tubby ties and a hairstyle that says ‘look but don’t touch, baby’. Damn do we respect you, Ron Burgundy.

JULIAN KAYE Richard Gere
(American Gigolo, 1980)
Attired entirely in Armani (except during his notorious full frontal nude scene), given Richard’s gear, it’s no wonder women are so willing to pay for play with Julian Kaye.

POPEYE DOYLE Gene Hackman
(The French Connection, 1971)
It’s all about the pork-pie hat as Hackman portrays tough cop Jimmy ‘Popeye’ Doyle, busting a heroin smuggling ring with engines revving and guns blazing… but surprisingly for a seventies flick, without trousers flaring.


VINCENT VEGA John Travolta
(Pulp Fiction, 1994)
Travolta’s disco-strutting Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever may have been a more obvious choice, but style-wise, we prefer the flying Scientologist’s monochrome-clad junkie hitman in the film that marked his return to top flight.


DOCTOR STRANGELOVE Peter Sellers
(Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964)

While wheelchair-bound and bespectacled, the titular character of this Kubrick piece de resistance mixes dangerous genius with an insanely smart dress sense.

HANNIBAL LECTER Anthony Hopkins
(Hannibal, 2001)
While the devil may have the best songs, it seems the evil wear the best clothes. Just like American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman, tastily-tailored Lecter proves that the danger of getting the occasional bloodstain on your togs needn’t prevent the wearing of deadly attire.

DEREK ZOOLANDER Ben Stiller
(Zoolander, 2001)
“Really, really ridiculously good-looking” as the world’s leading male model. Stiller shows you can be a winner in the fashion stakes even if you do only have one look. Last but certainly not least, Zoolander was so hot back then and still is so hot right now.

RUSTY RYAN Brad Pitt
(Ocean’s Twelve, 2004)
We tried not to include remakes in our list but since Brosnan’s Thomas Crown made it, we couldn’t begrudge Mister Jolie a spot given his super-cool styling in this hip heist flick (which isn’t strictly a remake … just the sequel to a remake). Smokin’.

Sunday, September 02, 2007 4:50:00 PM

 

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