As Hollywood is typically awful in casting actors for roles in movies, it seems to be inclined to try to validate its poor decisions by presenting “Oscars” to the more spectacular incarnations of its will to destroy a good story by miscasting. For the role of “Anton Chigurh” the Coen brothers cast (or accepted) Javier Bardem, who plays the role much after the fashion of Boris Karloff in his classic Frankenstein role. One must assume the “Bros” had more than a little influence in this matter. The childish concept that evil-doers must look evil, or monstrous, immediately places the film on a downward tilt to the banal side of the street. Yet, this film and Bardem apparently “knocked the socks off” critics and cheerleaders in the guise of fans. How did the City of Angels descend into such a cockeyed state of affairs? Drugs?
My suggestion is that Hollywood finally pay tribute to the originals in horror: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, James Arness (The Thing), et al. Hollywood, for once in your existence, do the right thing! Posthumous “Oscars” to the masters of the character type you imposed on the hired killer, “Anton Chigurh,” with subsequent “swoons & squeals” of delight from the moviemaking community and the media that covers their doings.
Javier Bardem?
Tags: "Anton Chigurh", "The Thing", Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Coen brothers, Frankenstein, Hollywood casting, James Arness, Javier Bardem, Lon Chaney, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
As Hollywood is typically awful in casting actors for roles in movies, it seems to be inclined to try to validate its poor decisions by presenting “Oscars” to the more spectacular incarnations of its will to destroy a good story by miscasting. For the role of “Anton Chigurh” the Coen brothers cast (or accepted) Javier Bardem, who plays the role much after the fashion of Boris Karloff in his classic Frankenstein role. One must assume the “Bros” had more than a little influence in this matter. The childish concept that evil-doers must look evil, or monstrous, immediately places the film on a downward tilt to the banal side of the street. Yet, this film and Bardem apparently “knocked the socks off” critics and cheerleaders in the guise of fans. How did the City of Angels descend into such a cockeyed state of affairs? Drugs?
My suggestion is that Hollywood finally pay tribute to the originals in horror: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, James Arness (The Thing), et al. Hollywood, for once in your existence, do the right thing! Posthumous “Oscars” to the masters of the character type you imposed on the hired killer, “Anton Chigurh,” with subsequent “swoons & squeals” of delight from the moviemaking community and the media that covers their doings.
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