I do this. I can't tell good acting from a good human being. From good script writing.
When I went to see "The Goodbye Girl" with Richard Dreyfuss, I had to drag along my cranky, mean, hateful boss. After the movie, going into raptures about Richard Dreyfuss, I said something like, "I think we could be really good friends." Cranky-Hateful rolled his eyes and said, "You're an idiot. That's what they're paid to make you think."
Viz., my latest infatuation with Jake Weber - really and truly? It's the very well-written character of Joe Dubois dwelling in the body of Jake Weber that makes me swoon.
Lately, I've not been exactly interested in how movies get made. I used to watch every single second of "Bonus Features" and "The Making Of"s. I spent the extra bucks to get the features for "Lord of the Rings" and they were very well worth it.
But for the Harry Potter movies? Not so much. Don't show me a single green screen. I don't think I could handle it.
As with every actorly infatuation I get, I hunt down every movie, every obscure TV show (Brad Pitt in "Dallas", for example).
I am engaged in this now with Jake Weber. I bought his parents' biography. (Used. On Amazon. For a penny.) This has completely changed the way I feel about the Rolling Stones. Quoth Mr. Weber, "My sole reason for existence after I was four years old was to roll joints for Keith Richards and Mick Jagger." And "It might have been a bad atmosphere for a kid but mostly I remember dancing around to 'Brown Sugar' like a maniac."
Today, I rented "Dawn of the Dead" just so I could watch him portray Michael the thrice-married dad who worked as a TV salesman at Best Buy, being hunted by zombies. This is the first and only zombie movie I have ever seen.
I got big yucks out of an episode of "Medium" where the main character Allison tells her husband Joe about a dream she had. It had zombies in it. Later, their daughters were watching zombie movies and Joe said, "Not the one where they're all stuck in the shopping mall." Just me and maybe 50,000 other people got that joke.
But I think my tendre for Jake is over. I read an interview where he said of Joe,"He's so understanding and supporting. I know I could never be that good about it."
Oh, Jake, Jake. I suppose after all it really is Joe that I love.
3 comments:
Yeah. That's why I quit reading (auto)biographies of people I admired. I loved Katharine Hepburn, and Gilda Radner - until I read their autobiographies. They had very dirty feet. I prefer the fantasies.
So many actors create memorable, award winning characters, and no one remembers the writers who ACTUALLY created the memorable character.
Queen - I don't know. I think you have to have both of them. For example, Joe as portrayed by Zach Whathisname? No. Just would not work. Or Steve Buscemi. Oh, I think I just threw up a little.
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