Word: stylist
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...Mess with the Zohan's premise is so vivid and promising - a legendary Israeli counter terrorist wants to give up violence and find his bliss as a hair stylist - that it entered funny movie legend land months in advance of its release. Ideas like that don't occur every day in Hollywood. Or every year for that matter...
...Phantom, a Palestinian terrorist (a devoutly nasty John Turturro), ships himself to New York in an airplane's cargo hold, which he shares with two dogs named Scrappy and Coco, whom he puts to sleep with his non-stop monologue. The mutts provide him with a nom de stylist (Scrappy Coco). After landing, a mild mannered young man named Michael (Nick Swardson), whom Zohan rescues from a snooty street bully (his habit is to literally tie bad guys into knots), provides him with a spare room. He also provides an older woman, who just happens to be Michael...
...rolls his r’s to imitate the siren-like purr of his foreign stylist...
...scenes that measure out in minutes, not seconds; the dialogue where silence says as much as words - his motto could have been "Just Because Nothing Happens Doesn't Mean Nothing Is Happening." Watching a Minghella film takes patience, but it can be a rewarding wait. "He was not a stylist as a director," David Puttnam, a British film producer and friend of Minghella's, told the BBC. "He saw himself as a storyteller and his films were very well told, beautifully made and beautifully acted...
...Nabokov is considered an enigmatic sort of stylist that puts some people off,” Russell said, “and these people tend to think of him as coldhearted...