After all that eating, think about noseless film characters
Ms. Dargis is most certainly correct when she says about Ralph Fiennes expert turn as the malevolent He Who Shall Not Be Named that:
His Voldemort may be the greatest screen performance ever delivered without the benefit of a nose; certainly it's a performance of sublime villainy.
And later she even drops a Butoh reference, definitely apt in this case. Whatever complaints one may have about the New York Times' co-chief film critic, Manohla clearly knows how to light up a weird-art geek's pleasure centers with her words (though, since she doesn't publish her picture, it cannot be determined with what else she might or might not appeal to said centers).
Still, it got me thinking, besides Vincent D'Onofrio's completely wacked performance (though one could make an argument that those words describe all his roles) as a psychotic noseless druglord, a character type we clearly need more of, in The Salton Sea, how many other noseless characters are there in the film world? And let's leave out characters whose whole face has been disfigured, as they're more accurately described as "the dude with the fucked up face." No, I'm asking only for characters who could concisely be referred to as "noseless" without cheating by forgetting to mention that, oh, they were headless or faceless as well. And before someone gets smart alecky, no, apparitions and such don't count either. Anyone?
There's a Thanksgiving Day bleg for you to ponder.
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