Kept trying to remember any particular role of his that impressed me, One Hour Photo was one I completely forgot about!
R.I.P. Robin Williams
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UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
The Fisher King and Moscow on the Hudson.
But it's hard to top Mork from Mork & Mindy.
But it's hard to top Mork from Mork & Mindy.
It kind of pains me that no one I've talked to about this has had any fond memories (and seldom any memories at all) of Death To Smoochy. I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea, but Rainbow Randolph was one of the few instances I can remember where he got the opportunity to play comic and dark at the same time, and I thought he knocked it out of the park.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I've never seen that one, but I'll add it to my mental list. I've never seen One Hour Photo either, and I've wanted to for a long time now.
Death To Smoochy was dark but the one where he fakes the book by his son for his suicide was just fucking oh my god thankyou robin wow.
BigBoss
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Forgot about American History X. Haven't seen that one in a long time.
Akratus
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It has one of the best shots, ever made in a movie.
That whole scene is great. But the tilted angle of his face when the particular question is asked. The subtle expression he makes. It's like an entire belief system breaking in front of your eyes. At least for me. I mean you don't see much, but it really hit me as a sublime moment in cinematic history.
That whole scene is great. But the tilted angle of his face when the particular question is asked. The subtle expression he makes. It's like an entire belief system breaking in front of your eyes. At least for me. I mean you don't see much, but it really hit me as a sublime moment in cinematic history.
what I also like, is the teacher explaining that he was in a similar situation once, just the other side of the medal - I assume. Shows that hate, ignorance and racism is not exclusive to one group of people.
BigBoss
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Anybody can be racist. The most common definition of racism is thinking that your better or above someone because of their race. Just look at the comments section on YouTube for all the different American History X clips, you have African-Americans and White-Americans telling eachother racist comments constantly. I only found like one or two videos/clips when going through the American History X clips on YouTube out of the, like 6 or 7 I saw, in which no one said anything racist.
Racism comes in all forms, colors, nationalities, and even religions. It's very possible indeed to be a "religious racist". Take the definition I provided above with racism and add "hating someone because of their race, nationality, or religion" and that's the full definition of racism. Now, stereotypical jokes aren't racist, though racist people can and do use them. I've seen plenty of non-racist people (take comedians for example, White, Black, and Latino) constantly use stereotypes in part of their act. This doesn't mean that they are racist.
I'm half Sioux (US tribe, the Tribe of the Horse) and half French-American (meaning I haven't had family in France for like six generations, but that is where my mother's side of my family originates. Much of our ancestors are royalty, and I can trace my lineage back to Charlemagne according to the years of and very costly research my mother's family did. But, were getting off topic here) and I heard so many stereotypical comments about both sides of my heritage I feel like I heard them all. But 90% of the people who made those comments weren't racist at all (the other 10% were mainly those on the internet), and even I laughed at a lot of them. Comments like the French can't fight and lost the majority of their wars (and/or cowardice), all native's do is drink, stuff like that. Doesn't bother me though.
Racism comes in all forms, colors, nationalities, and even religions. It's very possible indeed to be a "religious racist". Take the definition I provided above with racism and add "hating someone because of their race, nationality, or religion" and that's the full definition of racism. Now, stereotypical jokes aren't racist, though racist people can and do use them. I've seen plenty of non-racist people (take comedians for example, White, Black, and Latino) constantly use stereotypes in part of their act. This doesn't mean that they are racist.
I'm half Sioux (US tribe, the Tribe of the Horse) and half French-American (meaning I haven't had family in France for like six generations, but that is where my mother's side of my family originates. Much of our ancestors are royalty, and I can trace my lineage back to Charlemagne according to the years of and very costly research my mother's family did. But, were getting off topic here) and I heard so many stereotypical comments about both sides of my heritage I feel like I heard them all. But 90% of the people who made those comments weren't racist at all (the other 10% were mainly those on the internet), and even I laughed at a lot of them. Comments like the French can't fight and lost the majority of their wars (and/or cowardice), all native's do is drink, stuff like that. Doesn't bother me though.
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No! Do no such thing!
In fact, going that far to find racist comments, I imagine American History X clip pages must be glowing with racism, when you can spot the random, casual hatred even in Winnie the Pooh clips. Youtube is a special place.
Same symptom as animal lovers accusing a clip of showing animal cruelty, it does not matter what the animal is upto, someone will accuse the clip of animal cruelty "Giving your horse truffles can cause stomach ache >:'O"
One thing I wonder tho... American History X clearly is a kind of "lesson"-film, it is clearly against neo-nazism, showing the whole "how silly of me"-angle, "finally grew up", shaking hands w the black dude, etc etc - yet SO many would-be skin-heads love this movie. What's the deal? Are they loving it as to sortof show off a deeper side of themselves, like, "Look at my self insight, I know what I do is wrong, yet I still do it. That is how tormented I am!" or did they ALL just misunderstand the whole movie!? Everyone all "See!? Violent niggur!" in the end?
BigBoss
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I'm guessing they like it for all the violent actions taken against other races in the movie. They could probably care less about the plot.
Akratus
Bleep bloop.
But the movie also challenges their beliefs. I think there's only two action scenes where black persons are the victim? Anyway, I guess it's silly of me to think a racist could possibly start thinking over his beliefs after one movie.
BigBoss
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Yeah, the funny thing I've noticed about movies, is I've seen people laugh, cry, and show emotion over them, but once the movies' over they've completely forgotten/ignored it's message and go back to 'reality'.
Akratus
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You guys probably don't know Melodysheep, but he did a musical tribute to old Robin:
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UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I just remembered one of my favorite Robin Williams movies: The World According to Garp. I've always liked that one.
BigBoss
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What about that movie where he's a Vietnam radio DJ? Haven't seen that one in a while. Good movie.
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Many people can trace their ancestry to Charlemagne apparently. It's one of those things that doesn't mean much. Apparently him and his ancestors fucked a lot. I traced mine there as well.
On topic. I have never watched Dead Poets Society. I'll get on that, but I'm putting it off.
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I was able to trace my lineage back to simple forms of aquatic life. No royalty, no nobility, no nothing.
What about royal fish?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_fish