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These various paramours are played gamely by Aaron Zelman, who spends more time stripped down to his underwear than he does in costume. Zelman also plays the grave doctors who try to save Anna, as well as the threatening underworld figures Carl must deal with...
Faced with the exhausting challenge of such disparate roles, Zelman's performances never lose their freshness; so completely does he master each characterization that it is easy to forget that all the same actor plays all these roles...
...companion in blondness is Aaron Zelman as Freddy Fellowes, a well-meaning method actor who can only be described as dumb. Zelman compels mention of the film version of "Noises Off." His characterization of Freddy is unmistakably like Christopher Reeves' in the same role. Freddy craves motivation for his every movement on stage, prompting Lloyd into a deadpan Freudian probe of Freddy's character's relationship with groceries...
Fish plays the hot-tempered Ben with the explosiveness it requires. Unlike Zelman, however, he is not able to maintain the serious and earnest tone throughout his part. One reason for this is that his part calls on him to be the leader of the two of them. Ben reports to the "boss," Wilson. He calls the shots. He knows when they should arrive for a hit and when they should lay low and wait. Ben is very similar to Joe Pesci's character in "GoodFellas," but what we see are strains of Fish's former comedic roles seeping into...
Although we cannot see Zelman's face throughout part of his shoe-tying fiasco, we understand what this whole thing is supposed to communicate. The shoe tying is taken further when Gus finds a peice of cardboard in one shoe and an old pack of cigarettes stuffed into the other one. This scene creates the picture of Gus as a version Lenny from John Steinbeck's Of Mice...