One of those characters you couldn't abide in real life, but was so majestically portrayed and devastating a cat among the pigeons I hung on every word he said and welcomed every re-emergence.
"Don't you want to *beep* every woman you meet, just once"
"How's it peeping Tommy"
"Horrible isn't it; so bourgeois"
And that out of tune piano playing. Philip Seymour Hoffman too good.
I have wondered whose idea this was - Matt Damon's reaction is amazing. That look of pain.... share
And that out of tune piano playing. Philip Seymour Hoffman too good.
Matt Damon's reaction is amazing. That look of pain....
Thats how i feel about tom, which is why i like any character in the movie that puts him in his place...i loved the "tommy hows the peeping" line...tommy is a disgusting little murderous psychotic lunatic
shareAnthony Minghella said Freddie was supposed to represent that friend-of-a-friend guy that stares at you too long, and does everything they can to make you feel like an outsider ("Why are you in our group?").
But Minghella also made Freddie sharper and more aware than most, as he instantly saw through Tom's leech-like scheme from the start. There's a shot where Freddie is dancing and staring, contemptuously, at Tom like a powerful Oracle who knew Matt Damon's intimate secrets and entire life history.