I worked with a guy in the mid 90's who loved this movie. It was his go-to for deciding if a girl was worth dating. He’d show them the movie and if they didn’t like it, he’d end it right there.
Funny how all these ‘manifesting a new world’ cults always seem to subjugate and abuse women. It’s like men are all ‘how do I get all the sex I want? I know! I’ll start a religion! Make ‘em think they have to!’
...or Fred Astaire, Melvin Douglas, John Housman & Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Ghost Story (1981).
Fun list (although calling THE FOOD OF THE GODS “great” is stretching it).
Some other contenders:
Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing in DRACULA.
Charlton Heston in THE AWAKENING (based on a novel by Bram Stoker)
The entire last act of Bette Davis’s career. :)
She began her silver screen career as a silent-film superstar, but Gish’s epic career stretched into the 1980s. Maybe her most notable speaking role, however, came in the only film directed by another acting legend, Charles Laughton. It’s a fantastically grim thriller about a creepy preacher who’s really a…
You forgot two more great actors, both in the same movie:
What about Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, and Lee J. Cobb in The Exorcist?
“sight of his naked, doughy, carbuncled flesh was going to get them in the mood.”
Same one who dropped fraud charges against the Trump children because *their* family attorneys donated lots of money .
So now we can add ‘pot defiler’ to his long list of offenses.
Great text, thanks. And finally someone who says there is complicity and that he is complicit. And not pointing at somebody else.
“There are no heroes here.”
He could’ve taken the same tack many others are and said, “I had no idea! This is terrible and shocking!” Instead, he says what should be said, and he (appropriately) calls himself out as well. I give someone a lot of props for acknowledging what he did wrong and why.
“Their courage only hangs a lantern on my shame”
Call your friends out. Call them out immediately. If they are being sketchy tell them. If they are being gross tell them. Don’t laugh at it. Don’t pass it off because you know they’re good people or they’re generous with you. Tell them to cut the shit. And tell them to tell you if they see you being sketchy.
That was pretty epic. That’s all I can say.
Kirk’s “You Klingon bastard” in TSfS has retained much of its emotional edge, mostly because of Shatner selling the spiritual devastation of the moment. Bones was crotchety enough, and Picard authoritative enough to sell their swears with minimal effort.
Hudson did it 10,000x better in Aliens.
Once upon a time, I had two coworkers. One guy had a PhD. The other guy was named James and would always ask the PhD to do things that most would consider far below their job qualifications.
I kept on telling the PhD that any time he was asked, he should respond with “Damnit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a _______”.