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Bill. 1955 - 2017

For me, Paxton was by all definition the "wild card" in his choice of character role. I can't think of one performance where I wasn't either rooting for him as a good guy, or rooting for him as a bad guy. He just master minded a character and image that fitted into both.

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Although his career started before hand my first memory of Bill was, "Hey I think this guy is a couple of cans short of a six pack." From James Cameron's 1984 SI-FI classic, "The Terminator." You see every think was VHS back in the day and we were young at this time. We had no real ways of knowing when we could see him next.

So my friends and I would watch unbeknownst to us a "genre" of movies that Bill was in fact in. "Hey," would be the cry followed by one of us pointing to the screen, "that's that guy from Terminator." as we watched "Weird Science."

Appearing along side Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Commando" as yet another victim It wasn't until James Cameron gave Bill the role and a machine gun that we had been waiting for. "Private Hudson" in the definitive SI - FI film, "Aliens." His cult status was there for the taking and did his portrayal of Hudson take it? All the way.  

  Mean while, one day as me and my friends were on the couch depressing the play button on the VHS.. "Holly shit, its that guy from Aliens."  And we had reached, "Near Dark." To be reunited with the crew of the "USS Sulaco" In a 1987 stand alone

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Vampire film that to this day, is a game changer was unprecedented. My friends and I were now visiting comic book shops and looking threw the pages of "Fangoria" to find out more about our new sub culture hero's and anti hero's we were rooting for.

From here on in when you saw a movie with Bill Paxton you would say to your self, or your friends, this is going to be "state of the bad ass art."

And it was..

By Steven Peace.

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