Word: savant
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Scorsese won his great renown for films about the brotherhood of deranged machismo: Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York. But as his documentaries about American and Italian cinema show, he is also an encyclopedic connoisseur, scholar and rescuer of old movies - a video savant - who makes occasional forays into genre territory. He's done romantic comedy (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Merchant-Ivoryish period drama (The Age of Innocence), a musical (New York, New York) and a thriller remake (Cape Fear). Even The Departed is an American version of a Hong Kong cop movie...
...cornfed mystic who bemusedly observes her employers’ frantic railing against racism, fate, and Karl Rove. Her dialogue is laconic, but her inner monologue is full of surprisingly acute observations. Moore gives Tassie an interest in the unsavory and a preoccupation with Sufism, extending Tassie’s savant-like eccentricities to ridiculous levels. Just when her confusion at the hypocrisies of people around her begins to cross the line between clever and insufferable, she’ll use her roommate’s vibrator to stir a glass of chocolate milk, or write a college paper about...
...Peek's skills floored screenwriter Barry Morrow and helped inspire Dustin Hoffman's savant character in the Oscar-winning drama Rain Man. Peek became an overnight star and spent the rest of his life showcasing his gifts to more than 64 million people. Had he chosen to, he might have memorized every name...