Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
How can a guy who is so convincingly weak and whiney
simultaneously be a cold, hard, calculating
sociopathic crime lord? I ask you this! Kevin does it
and carries the whole movie
(The Usual Suspects)
to its shocking and refreshing ending. What causes that
little frisson of hope we feel when we realize the bad
guy is about to get away with everything? A damn fine
actor and a good script, that's what. Kevin was
perfect for this role - we can easily see him as a
smarmy, harmless-seeming guy with a bad leg who only
wishes he could be as cool and lethal as his criminal
cohorts. When, in the final moments he transforms into
a physically graceful, cunning, and (dare I say
it...)... dashing man of grim and killer genius, the
dreaded Keyser Söze, we are left shaking our heads in
wonder. [By the way, do you think I can BE any more
gushing about this actor in this role? I don't think
so. I'm so over the top about the whole thing that
even *I* can see it's a tad much.]
[Nevertheless, I shall continue.] Would it not be cool if there were a Verbal Kint/Keyser Söze spinoff movie? Sort of a "watch... here I am fooling everyone into thinking I'm weak-minded Verbal but now... POW! I'm scary-effective-killer-dude, Keyser Söze! And again, over here, with this other bunch of people I'm doing it again! And again!" Okay, maybe not. But still, you can see what I mean, right? RIGHT?
I almost wish I could erase my memory of this movie so I could see it over and over again and get that same rush of amazement and admiration all over again in the end.
(if there were a 6, I'd pick that, obviously)
(ditto)
(C'mon, we're talking Kevin Spacey here.
The guy who brings his mom as his date to the Oscars.)
Dandelion
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