― richard john gillanders., Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― richard john gillanders, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Actually I first came to know about him through Dune, but One Flew certainly helps seal some credentials. I'm intrigued by his being Grima in the next LOTR film -- I wouldn't have picked him as an obvious choice to play the role; then again the character as written is cravenness personified crossed with puffed up arrogance, which could almost be the Dune role in ways. ;-)
What goes on? Like Gene Hackman or Michael Caine, say, he's an actor who lives to act, and takes a variety of parts to pursue that goal -- sometimes in material clearly beneath him, but it's a paycheck. Consider Dourif's LOTR castmate John-Rhys Davies. He was brilliant in I, Claudius, had a fun turn in two of the Indiana Jones movies, and has also appeared in some *amazingly* bad crocks of shit (including the ultra-lame so-bad-it's-good Indiana Jones knockoff King Solomon's Mines). All four of these actors have had their 'yech!' moments but have successfully avoided a downward spiral of doing nothing but crap time and again because their evident talent sees them through, and it's recognized or at least used effectively when possible.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Actually, I think I did answer your question. They're actors, they work. By working, they eat, therefore they live. Really, there's not much more to add at base, and all four actors seem reasonably comfortable with the choices they've made over time. Some see it as bills-paying money in between other parts, likely enough, but they're still doing it because that's what they do.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
hee-hee. let's pretend I read you properly the first time. go on.
okay--yes, you're all right. I guess I just want him to be in good films. that's what I want.
― richard john gillanders, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally C, Saturday, 9 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)
― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 8 August 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 8 August 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 8 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 8 August 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, I was about to say!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 August 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)
"Played music with the Deviants" WTF!
I also like that in 1980 he was in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones followed immediately by Heaven's Gate.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)
don't they make reference to this in Bride of Chucky or somesuch?
they're talking about who they want to be, and he says something like "I'd like to be character actor Brad Dourif"?
― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 8 August 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)
finest five minutes? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Tn5Gw15Ew
― bobby bedelia, Saturday, 7 July 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvZdvq8CsgQ
― bobby bedelia, Saturday, 7 July 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)
Replace the music on that first one with, I dunno, Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" = greatest video ever.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 July 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)
i don't remember reviving a brad dourif thread
― cutty, Saturday, 7 July 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)
where do the years go?