Kurt Russell is a Hollywood legend and one of the industry’s most acclaimed actors. Even though he’s in his 70s, the family man and all-around kind person still manages to score roles in blockbuster films like The Fast and Furious franchise, and he recently played with longtime partner Goldie Hawn in The Christmas Chronicles 2 as St. Nick.
We’ll examine at nine of Russell’s crucial performances to discover how he achieved it, because few performers have come close to his level of respect.

1. Escape From New York (1981)

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Director- John Carpenter

Due to a 400 percent increase in crime rates after 1988, the United States turned Manhattan, New York, into a maximum security prison where the most vicious criminals are incarcerated for life. They have no method of escaping because the bridges are mined, a massive wall has been built around the shoreline, and a police force army has been stationed there to apprehend any attempted escapees. When Air Force One is hijacked in 1997, the president flees in a pod and lands in Manhattan.

Snake Plissken, an ex-special forces war hero and bank robber, is given his freedom if he can save the president. He’s on his way to a Hartford Summit conference with a cassette tape with critical information on nuclear fission within the next 24 hours. Snake has been implanted with two microscopic capsules that will detonate within 24 hours, ensuring that he completes the assignment. If he is late, he will perish.

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2. Big Trouble In Little China (1986)

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Director- John Carpenter

Jack Burton, a truck driver, arrives in San Francisco’s Chinatown and heads to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to meet his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin, who is flying in from China. However, she is abducted by a Chinese street gang as soon as she arrives, and Jack and Wang pursue them. They soon discover that David Lo Pan, a strong evil sorcerer who has been cursed to remain without a physical body for over two thousand years, must marry a woman with green eyes in order to reclaim his physical body, and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang join forces with Gracie Law, Egg Shen, a bus driver and sorcerer apprentice, and their friends for a fantastic adventure in Chinatown’s underground, where they encounter magicians, demons, and martial arts fighters.

3. The Hateful Eight (2015)

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Director- Quentin Tarantino

John “The Hangman” Ruth, a rough bounty hunter in post-Civil War Wyoming, risks an impending blizzard to carry his shackled prisoner, Daisy Domergue, to Red Rock to stand trial for murder. With the impending snowfall, John and his new unsavoury travelling companions, Major Marquis Warren, a fellow bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix, Red Rock’s soon-to-be-appointed sheriff, would have no choice but to take shelter in Minnie’s Haberdashery. But there’s another unwelcome encounter in store, when four more mysterious individuals join this already tumultuous group. The cruel eight must suffer each other till the storm subsides, engulfed in this unforgiving white hell.

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4. Overboard (1987)

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Director- Garry Marshall

Joanna Stayton is the filthy rich, pompous, and irritatingly pampered heiress. She engages the impoverished local carpenter Dean Proffitt to renovate her wonderful wardrobe. Now that her beautiful yacht has arrived in Elk Cove, Oregon, for repairs. Of course, nothing is ever good enough for the obnoxious socialite, and she pushes him overboard in a fit of wrath. Only to be served her own medicine later that night. As a result, with her amnesiac and defenceless in the local hospital, Dean sees a wonderful opportunity to avenge himself—and, in one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions, boldly decides to identify her as Annie, his long-lost wife and mother of his four sons. For the first time in his life, he’s having a blast watching her struggle to babysit “their” wild boys and clean up the run-down love nest.

5. The Thing (1982)

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Director- John Carpenter

An early-winter 1982 photograph of a US research outpost in Antarctica. A helicopter from a nearby Norwegian research station approaches the facility and buzzes it. They’re attempting to kill an escaping dog from their base. Following the demolition of the Norwegian chopper, members of the US team travel to the Norwegian base, only to find that everyone has died or gone missing. They do come across the remnants of a bizarre creature that was torched by the Norwegians. The Americans take it back to their base and determine that it is an extraterrestrial life form. After a period, it becomes clear that the extraterrestrial has the ability to take control of and assimilate into various life forms, including humans, and spread like a virus.

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6. Death Proof (2007)

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Director- Quentin Tarantino

Mike McKay, a veteran Hollywood stunt double, ditches his black, souped-up 1970 Chevy Nova SS. He arrives in Lebanon, Tennessee, fourteen months after evading charges in Austin, Texas, to take up where he left off. Abernathy, Zo, and Kim, three young ladies, have attracted the insane misogynist’s attention this time. He has decided to play an exciting but hazardous cat-and-mouse game with them. However, there can be only one winner in this high-octane race. The ladies aren’t about to give up without a fight.

7. Tombstone (1993)

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Director(s)- George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre

Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and their wives relocate to Tombstone, Arizona. In order to begin a new life and leave his past as a lawman and gunslinger behind him. Doc Holliday, Wyatt’s close friend, will also be visiting Tombstone. The Clantons are among “The Cowboys,” a gang of individuals who act as if they are above the law. Virgil, who can’t stand the violence surrounding him, takes the position over Wyatt’s protests. They and The Cowboys are going to have to face one other at some point.