Thursday, September 22, 2011
THESE WALLS ARE FUNNY. FIRST YOU HATE 'EM, THEN YOU GET USED TO 'EM. ENOUGH TIME PASSES, YOU GET SO YOU DEPEND ON THEM: With the freakin' dolphin movie debuting tomorrow, I cannot be the only one wondering what it will take to finally get Morgan Freeman to play against type and portray an evil, devious, not-the-center-of-world-dignity mofo? He got to play Nelson Mandela; can we balance the cinematic karma a little here? (And while we're at it: Tom Hanks too, and don't tell me Road to Perdition, because I don't believe anyone actually saw it.)
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Do we count Hanks lead in Charlie Wilson's War as an anti-hero?
ReplyDeleteWasn't Freeman the evil and devious villain in Wanted?
ReplyDeleteWell, Morgan Freeman was the head of a secret society of assassins in Wanted. And he does say "Fuck", which I enjoyed way too much.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't his role in Se7en count? I've seen the Dolphin movie and Freeman's character is so hot'n'crusty eccentric that you'd think the part was written for Wilford Brimley.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see Wanted, so I will defer to y'all on that. As for Se7en, he's still a cop, not John Doe.
ReplyDeleteWhat I want for Freeman, in fact, is for him to do a role like Brimley's in The Firm.
Would he get beaten up in unintentionally hilarious fashion, like Brimley in The Firm? I swear, that movie is Tom Cruise's best comedy.
ReplyDeleteI actually saw Road to Perdition (seriously! really! start to finish!), but it still doesn't count. Even while playing a mob hit man, Tom Hanks was still playing a decent man, of the "he may be a killer but he's a good man at heart and just needs to learn to be a good father and find redemption" sort.
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Morgan Freeman sort of played that role in Gone Baby Gone - but again, not quite, since he seems to be a good, decent cop through the whole movie and even when he's exposed as a criminal, it's a crime of moral complexity.
And the remix.
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Count me as another who saw "Road to Perdition" -- in the theater, no less! And, agreed, that he's still a "good guy", at least compared to other hit men.
ReplyDeleteThirding the saw it and he may be a criminal but still a hero good guy.
ReplyDeleteDoes Street Smart count?
ReplyDeleteWhat about doing the narration for the new Conan the Barbarian movie?
ReplyDeleteWell, I'll see your remix and raise you the real deal.
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Perhaps an evil deed. Not an evil character.
ReplyDeleteI actually pretty much love Road to Perdition. Hanks is great, early Daniel Craig, Jude Law bringing the bad, Paul Newman-Hanks piano duet, (all-too-brief) Jennifer Jason Leigh, and a a damn fine Thomas Newman score.
ReplyDeleteHe was a bad guy in the Ladykillers remake. There's a Tom Hanks-mustache principle there, although it's not identical to the Kevin Kline one.
ReplyDeleteI saw it too. Possibly with Sue. Barely remember it, except that Jude Law was creepy.
ReplyDeleteMorgan Freeman was the bad guy in Dreamcatcher. Don't watch it. It isn't worth it.
ReplyDeleteNobody remembers "Hard Rain"?
ReplyDelete"Hard Rain" anybody?
Morgan Freeman *was* the bad guy in "Hard Rain," wasn't he?
I mean, *I* haven't seen it, but still...
-Daniel
He was brilliant in Street Smart. But that was a looooooonng time ago.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Lucky Number Slevin? His character did surprise me in that one.
ReplyDeleteI believe Randy Quaid was the bad guy.
ReplyDeleteNo, wait, he's the Sherriff...
He was a man of ambiguous morals in Chain Reaction, one of Keanu's finest films. Better acting than Point Break, fewer glaring mockeries of the laws of physics than Speed.
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