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Opal. Geraldine Chaplin. My Favorite Character

posted 13 years ago by dizexpat
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With a cast this big selecting a favorite character isn't easy but I have to go for Geraldine Chaplin's caricature of a pompous, self-important BBC reporter who is considerably less profound than she thinks she is.

At the beginning she tells us that she's just finished a documentary on Kenya and is now doing one on Nashville. From one group of wild savages to another.

She has wonderful moments. Asking the soldier: "Have you been to Vietnam?...Yes, I can see it in your face."

Telling the chauffeur "I make it a point never to gossip with servants."

And her rambling, incoherent comments about garbage heaps and yellow school buses.

A great character!

"Mice work in mysterious ways."
"No, dear. That's God."

[–] dlynch843 9 years ago

She was consistently idiotic. I wonder what the British reaction was to this movie in general (probably loved the Southern culture digs) and Chaplin in particular (probably hated her characterization--but the Brits do have a pretty good sense of humor about themselves.)