I'm certain this is both an insult and compliment. I don't know whether to sling hurtful racial epiteths your way.....or bask in the radiant glow of your approval.
It's a compliment, to the extent that everyone in the universe who don't know their Batman should follow your example. And anyone who DOES know their Batman? Still a requirement to wear those shirts and wristbands.
Victor Von Doom said:
I'm so glad you get my casting choice. And his roles in both The Jacket and Hollywoodland are 2 of my fav roles for him.
But that holds true for a lot of actors. I'll tend to love their smaller, unacclaimed works.....and then feel meh about their bigger budget, high profile gigs.
I don't mind their big budget high profile roles, but they should be used to further understand everything else in their body of work.
An actor can't just be defined by one role, you have to analyze their schtick and look at how it's played out in various ways to varying effects with various tones to really understand how to use them.
This is why people should stop thinking, "Oh there's that quirky actor, that tough actor, that hard-nailed actress, that angelic beauty..." and start breaking down the elements that make up those VERY GENERAL archetypes.
I mean, obviously, Steve Buscemi has taught us in films liek
Living In Oblivion and
Ghost World that he's not just the smarmy motormouth... but he still plays to good effect in larger pictures like
The Island.
In the opposite direction, actors like say, James Gandolfini, should have their most prominent defining gigs like his role in
Sopranos be understood as a culmination all their previous character work.
