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The Guy Is Amazing

posted 6 years ago by R_Kane (15828)
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He has specialized in tough-guy criminal roles, a speciality that he flipped on its head in the brilliant The Limey, where he used his cinematic heritage as the bedrock for a sensitive, nuanced and revealing study of the real soul of a career criminal who’s cheesed off that his daughter is dead. He’s played The Devil, not surprisingly in the best werewolf movie I will ever see, The Company of Wolves. He thrilled me as General Zog in Superman II, the only worthy protagonist that the only actor who’s been worthy to play Superman in a movie has had. (“Cavill’s the second-best Superman”? Really? Seriously? ‘Superman,’ the comic hero, is directly derived from Nietzsche’s Ubermensche, the OverMan. Please, I want to know: how is someone the second-best OverMan? There is only one OverMan, and then there are bitches. Yes, I am belaboring this point, because I can’t stand stupidity.) He’s played a charming psychopath in the first and best version of The Collector. I submit that Terrance deserves our praise and our appreciation for his established achievements even more than what we hope he will do in the future.

[–] sslssg (34223) 6 years ago

If it makes you feel any better you could say that Cavill is the ninth worst Superman?

You are missing some of my favourite roles. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Dead Fish, Smallville, and Young Guns.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

First, I don’t care about ordinal rankings of Ubermenschen, then there are the menschen. Second, thank you for fleshing out the Terrance Stamp filmography! I am
far from being expert in his portfolio. I am just an enthusiastic amateur, who hoped to invite more informed replies, like yours.Thank you.