De Niro Rourke Angel Heart

Mickey rourke has claimed he has been in a secret 30 year feud with robert de niro ever since the pair starred in angel heart.

De niro rourke angel heart. Mickey rourke and robert de niro in 1987 s angel heart tristar pictures courtesy ever now i don t look up to him no more. He gets a call to visit some kind of devil worship cult in harlem where a strange man wants to talk to him. Suffice to say if you have never seen angel heart it is worth checking out just for this and of course the commanding presence of robert de niro. A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself louis cyphre to track down a singer named johnny favorite.

According to the wrestler star he looked up to de niro like marlon brando and al pacino back in the 1980s but changed his view after de niro allegedly told him on the angel heart set. One of the most memorable scenes in the film features de niro peeling an egg with his long nails and announcing to angel that in some religions the egg is the symbol of the soul. The angel heart scandal. I look through him rourke said.

Directed by alan parker. Wrapped up in the weirdness of this line is the key to director alan parker s bizarre marriage of noir and horror in his 1987 film angel heart. With mickey rourke robert de niro lisa bonet charlotte rampling. This is one of the many philosophical sound bites offered up by robert de niro s enigmatic wealthy puppet master louis cyphre to shabby private detective harry angel mickey rourke.

The man s name is louis cyphre robert de niro and he wants angel to track down a missing person for him. Angel takes the case for five grand and follows a trail that is littered with stale leads and fresh corpses. I came up from the s. But it pales next to the drama.

Why mickey rourke and lisa bonet s voodoo sex bedeviled bill cosby rourke and robert de niro s angel heart feud continues to this day. Angel heart is a 1987 american psychological horror film written and directed by alan parker and starring mickey rourke robert de niro.