Maybe such unchecked devotion was the thing that made him cool.
Enver made him cool his heels in Sofia but finally gave him command of the 19th Division, which was being organized in the Gallipoli Peninsula.
His FU attitude makes him cool.
Warning about the "military-industrial complex" makes him cool in a darkly prophetic sort of way, and the whole "defeating Hitler" thing was good.
He's smug, he never takes off his sunglasses, and he thinks wearing an old Nick Cave t-shirt makes him cool.
Gary really is an oddball and that's okay; Loftin never tries to make him cooler than he is.
"That makes him cool and gives him a lot of credibility with men in his age group".
The Carradine portrayal makes him cool and magnetic, a man who can take a beating and still glide through his crises.
In that film, Gosling's romantic, self-consciously iconic character's unwavering subscription to notions of invincible outlaw cool, along with his predictability and preoccupation with what makes him cool, ultimately results in his downfall.
