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The Fisher King!
The glasses, nose, and hair are making me think Private Parts.
Excellent guesses, all – but Jessica is the winner!
Wow, that’s Bridges? He can even be Howard Stern when he has too!
Todd – I know, and he kind of plays a Stern-esque character here, so I loved your Private Parts guess.
Bridges, in this role in particular, looks so much like an old flame of mine that it is actually eerie. Not in other roles, but in this one. Spitting image. That mouth! I know that mouth!!
Watching it tonight. Gearing up to do a big review of it. I have so many plans, and so little time. Elizabeth Taylor and Tennesseee Williams totally took up my entire week. Not that I’m complaining!
I saw The Fisher King, and I remember liking it. I remember loving his character, and Mercedes Ruehle. But I can have problems with Robin Williams when he does his “schtick”.
Put him in a drama like One Hour Photo or Insomnia, or Good Will Hunting, and I like him much more. Looking forward to the review!
I only saw it once years ago, so I need to check it out again.
I think his schtick here really works. His haunting – literally – is so real. I’m not wacky about him in dramatic parts – or explicitly dramatic – where he has to leave out his humor. Here, he gets to use it ALL. It’s one of my favorites of his performances.
I love this movie. I think it is hugely under-rated! And Mercedes Ruehl? Fuggedaboutit.
Ok, ok, it’s on the queue! I know you’ve mentioned the movie many times, usually in a Bridges reference. I’m looking forward to checking it out again.
I wrote about Fisher King a little bit in my Jeff Bridges piece on House Next Door.
I keep meaning to do it justice – especially because it hasn’t really been properly released or acknowledged as a really really good film. It has IDEAS in it, a philosophical standpoint – not to mention one of my favorite really ADULT romances ever portrayed onscreen. Two grownups … damaged, afraid … trying to work it out. I really love it!
Yeah, this film is surprising in how it juggles so much that wouldn’t work in a lesser film. And you get three great performances, too, from Bridges, Williams, and Ruehl (who won an Oscar for her role).
I haven’t seen it in a while, so I’m definitely looking forward to your review. :-)
Mercedes Ruehl’s Oscar speech made me cry. I remember where I was when I saw it – with all my actor friends from college – and it was such an ACTOR’S speech – she felt like one of US. It was such a triumph for a real actor. She had been in the trenches a long time. (Here is the text of her speech.)
I saw her a couple years ago with Bill Pullman on Broadway in Edward Albee’s The Goat. they were both fantastic. I love her.
And Amanda Plummer is very funny in The Fisher King, too – rolling her dumplings around her plate, frowning.
I haven’t seen this film in so long and I know your review is going to send me running back to it. I remember being transfixed by Williams, even over Bridges. It’s one of the few roles where he gets to find just the right balance between his humor and dramatic chops. Too often he swings to one side completely, be it just oppressively wacky or teary-eyed, bunched-face “Oh NO!” proclamations. The only other films I can think of that use him so well are World’s Greatest Dad and Hook. The latter is, of course, deeply flawed — I’ve been going through Spielberg’s films and Hook and Jurassic Park were the biggest blows to my childhood nostalgia — but it perfectly used Williams Hawkeye-Pierce-on-crank style of veering between maudlin and manic.
But I remember so few concrete details of this movie even though I’m such a Gilliam freak. Now I know what I’m putting in my next Netflix shipment.
I’ve been scared to watch this movie again. It was very important to me in the years after it first came out, and I’ve been so afraid it wouldn’t stand the test of time.
I’m looking forward to your review. Terry Gilliam is a giant hero in my universe.