Word: malkovitch
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...Coop. I once had a cashier who performed the entire check-out process in complete silence while staring straight at me, examined my Coop card for five minutes and read the back jacket of each of the books I bought. Add the fact that he looked exactly like John Malkovitch, and it could’ve been a scene right out of the Twilight Zone. What is ‘off’ is not conventional strangeness of the mohawk-and-nose-ring variety, but a subtle, subliminal sense of unease. Where words like ‘kooky...
...Absolutely. You learn so much from different actors, from other directors. I just completed a film with the venerable John Malkovitch, and I worked with good actors in Pitch Black. Each movie is a different experience. When I worked on Saving Private Ryan, I talked with Steven Spielberg about 35 mm lenses. This movie, I learned about fiber optics, lots of technical things. Pitch Black was an amazing experience for me, especially to be exposed to a non-character driven plot. If I were ever to direct a sci-fi film, Pitch Black was the perfect training ground...
...Nelligan manages to redeem herself with bombast, Malkovich as her less-than-saintly son is an utter bombastic disappointment. Where Malkovitch was superb in earlier off-beat roles as the photographer in The Killing Fields and the blind boarder in Places in the Heart, his portrayal of Gage is shamefully one-sided and wholly unappealing. Brooding both in his personal and professional lives, he would seem an unlikely candidate for the type of altruistic soul-searching chronicled in the book and the film. Even his rigorous investigative reporting, which includes pulling a gun on his mother's executioner, would seem...
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