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Crispin miscellanea

posted 12 years ago by jinabuddha
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I... am the king of the echo people.
It's time for the puppet show.

Crispin should have played Nikola Tesla in the Drunk History episode. He looks strikingly similar to him in height and features. He is probably the only actor alive today who could play Tesla properly, capturing all of his eccentricities and genius. As it is highly unlikely that anyone will write and fund a Tesla movie featuring Crispin, I think he should seize the opportunity and do it himself. As a dedicated fan, I would thoroughly enjoy seeing anything of Crispin as Nikola, set in his wonderful, Overlook Hotel-like chateau in the Czech Republic. He should use the music of Alexander Scriabin prominently in the film. I can see it now, Crispin gesturing wildly as he works on an invention [perhaps, the death ray?] with enthusiastic selections from Scriabin's symphonies. Close your eyes and imagine an old Crispin, playing Tesla in his last days, poignantly receiving his beloved white pigeon onto his hotel room windowsill...

I have a terrible feeling that Crispin has been blacklisted from Hollywood due to his daring exposure of Steven Spielberg and this is why he gets roles like Hot Tub Time Machine where he is shockingly overqualified. It almost seems like a cruel joke against him - cast Crispin in mediocre roles, to send the message home, "thou shalt not question Steven Spielberg". Of course, he gladly takes the roles, to use the money for his own projects, but one still gets the sense that his mainstream career is over. This would not be a bad thing if he did more than simply tour his own movies. All the time he spends touring, putting on the same show in different cities, he could be using to create fascinating short films. I feel that his tremendous talents are going to waste. He is probably one of the greatest actors and genuine students of film alive today.

[–] jinabuddha 12 years ago

Crispin Hellion Glover is like Count Orlok living in his Czechozlaviakian castle alone, awakening at midnight to feast on the unsuspecting, slumbering townsfolk's blood before filming bizarre performances by himself in his Overlook Hotel style interview.

One imagines him like unto Howard Hughes sitting always alone in an elegant screening room, obsessively watching Kubrick films. Ingesting lots of soy and flax seed, as much omega 3 fatty acids as he can, including fish and most likely fish oil supplements, and perhaps he allows himself eggs for their extremely rich source of quality omega 3 content as well, a likely practitioner of urine therapy, judging by his tremendous skin quality, sipping his urine like a fine wine, later applying 3 day old aged urine to his entire body. Does Crispin Glover deny his innate desire for immortality or at least historic old age, retaining all one's mental capacities and intelligence? Would he then be averse to urine therapy due to a mere social taboo or would this master seer of the cultural creation of taboos and norms be able to see the obvious benefits of it and gladly overlook any taboo element and delight in it himself? Is Crispin Glover aware of the great English autist and artist Austin Osman Spare? It would not be far off to say he was like the Crispin Glover of England in the pre-1960s war era. He lived as a recluse, though often featuring his art at local shows, and Adolf Hitler was interested in a portrait from him. He is another fellow that I think Crispin Glover is uniquely fit for portraying in a film or short film.

[–] biggiebaby 9 years ago

Can you list some sites that has his comments about S.S.? I've never heard about the beef. Thanks