Word: half-wit
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...Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) and his notorious life of crime. Initially, Rugged’s attempts at law-breaking are so pathetic that the only person who thinks he’s cool is his half-wit sidekick, Lagrand (Paul Schneider, “All the Real Girls”). Through twists of fate and macabre miscommunication, however, Rugged bumbles into a status upgrade from town peon to local legend and “cop killer” by the end of the film. “Live...
...sudden passion for half-wit humor? Well, National Lampoon has also produced a sometimes tasteless but usually funny series of movies. The biggest: National Lampoon's Animal House, which netted the firm $13 million. Lots of businessmen can giggle over that...
Penn does bold justice to this lowdown giant. But Samantha Morton, as Emmet's "mute orphan half-wit" of a girlfriend, is the sweet revelation. Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness. She hardly nods or shakes her head in response to a question, yet always conveys the meaning and feeling. In an age of actors' tics and rantings, such austere clarity is worth cherishing. The interpretive magic that Emmet Ray achieves with six strings, Morton conjures with none...
...live-stock and transvestites, he wonders at his fortune in being gainfully employed at all, he declines the title of an artiste, and he is constantly more delighted than deprecating. Not fame, not fortune, not even cliche, will change the remembrance that in Reading, England, he was "a gay half-wit with no future...
...Before we actually tried it, space travel was a whole lot easier. See Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953). So simple a janitor (Bud) and a half-wit (Lou) could stumble onto a big silver sausage of a rocketship, flip a few switches, and go all the way to . . . Mardi Gras. Then Venus, with all the usual misadventures and comic contortions along the way. The code term for this is "classic comedy." It's a warning, because it's dated. Soft spots, stiff acting by supporting players, and yet A & C fans (you know who you are) are watching...