Saturday, February 11, 2023

Two tiny performances no other human being will ever replicate



There are two things I've seen and heard in movies that no other human being can ever replicate.

One is the way Nicholas Cage stands up and says "I don't particularly think-!' in Raising Arizona when he's talking with Gale and Evelle. It's not just the snap movement, or the goggle eyes, there's a ridiculous high-pictchd quaver to his voice that is truly unique.

 I have never seen anybody even come close to matching the way he says that, and doubt I ever will.

The second is the way Stephen Wright says the word 'behemoth' during one of his K-Billy Super Sounds of the Seventies interruptions on the soundtrack to Reservoir Dogs. As a 90s kid, everyone I knew tried to say it the same way, and none of them were ever any good.

Some things can never be repeated.

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