Word: characterize
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Not really. There are people that we are probably able to get that we don't go after and those that we probably shouldn't be able to get, like Elvis Costello, that we do. More than anything, they serve the purpose of a character in a musical, where this...
My own anticipation sank with the opening credits: "Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood." That list spelled out the plot: damaged veteran, middle-age girlfriend, young daughter. The Wrestler never rose above fight-movie bromides, never dispelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by...
The real cause for celebration is that he alchemizes the dross of the script into a character with a palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene...
There's a line from The Shawshank Redemption that is apropos. It's spoken by Tim Robbins' character: "Get busy living or get busy dying." We've lost it all, but we're choosing to get on with living.
• He loved Mafia iconography and liked being known as a tough guy. When he watched the Sopranos, it was "like he was going to church," said one of his five wives, with whom he had an autistic son named after a character in The Godfather. He used the score...