Marlin was channel surfing the other night while prepping dinner and happened to stop on the Sci Fi channel, which was playing one of my all-time favorite movies: Batman (the Tim Burton version — not the campy version based on the television series). This movie was a box office monster but did not get the critical acclaim I think it deserved. And Jack Nicholson was robbed by not even being nominated for an Oscar … it’s one of his best performances ever.
As the movie continued while we were eating dinner, I found myself reciting most of Jack’s/Joker’s lines, on cue, and in character. This got me thinking — perhaps this could be an interesting blog meme* type of thing. So here goes:
If you could play any character in any movie, who would it be?
For me, top choice would be Jack Nicholson’s Joker in Batman. Runners-up (in no particular order) would be Tim Curry’s Frank-N-Furter from Rocky Horror, Elizabeth Taylor’s Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, and F. Murray Abraham’s Salieri in Amadeus.
*And no, I didn’t bother to research if someone, somewhere has already blogged this idea … so if you have, relax and don’t go all ballistic on me. Been there, done that.
In other news, while waiting for the train this afternoon on the way home from work, I smoked a cigarette and walked halfway around the Fleet Center just to see what it’s like before they turn it into a demilitarized zone. They’ve already started doing random searches of commuters carry bags or backpacks. The so-called “protest zone” is behind a 12-foot high cement and chain-link fence. How’s that for freedom of speech and freedom of assembly? If the terrorists were smart, they would strap some lethal chemicals on the pigeons, who pretty much have the run of the Fleet Center, dive-bombing commuters and nesting in rafters and above signs and doorways, both inside and out. And I somehow doubt the pigeons bother listening to anything Tom Ridge has to say (as if anyone other than the radical fundies put much stock in his warnings, either).
As for me, I’m taking the entire week off work, and won’t be going anywhere near Boston.
My choice for movie roles would be: Karen Sisco in “Out of Sight” or Melanie Parker in “One Fine Day” or Natascha McElhone in “Solaris”. (Anyone catching the theme here?)
I’ve caught a couple newscasts from Boston this week and they have been doing some live reporting from a couple of “T” stations. I’ve been watching for you in the passers-by. I noticed that not one person looked in to the camera and waved, smiled, stuck their tongue out, or in anyway acknowledged that there was a camera there. You Bostonians are an aloof group.
Yeah Jan, I catch your theme … now try to get my drift: I heard a rumor Georgie plays for my team.
Maybe you should pick one of Marky Mark’s co-starring roles. [I can just hear you yelling at me now.]
While I was doing my walkaround at the Fleet Center, I passed behind a reporter for the local CBS affiliate in Boston and thought I might be able to come home tonight and see myself on the evening news, but then the reporter starting scratching his nuts (!) so I guess he was just doing a sound check.
Inconceivable!(heh) Couldn’t resist.
From “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, I’d want to be Ferris, but I’d probably have to be Cameron. *sniff*
I’m sure someone out there must have thought of that one before. I’m waiting for the accusatory e-mails to come swarming in any minute now…
Pam Anderson as Barb Wire in “Barb Wire” (totally the tits and the killer stilletto’s), Ian McKellan as Magneto in “X-Men” & “X-Men 2″, Stephen Baldwin’s Stuart in “Threesome”, Stephen Caffrey’s Fuzzy in “Longtime Companion”(because who wouldn’t want to pork Campbell Scott?), Olympia Dukakis’s Ousia in “Steel Magnolias, and ultimately, Harrison Ford’s Dekard in “Blade Runner”.
Great meme. Fuck that bitch from before and her meme-first shit. Nobody outmemesRon of Lowell.
Ah, the 23rd.