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I wonder if Dreyfuss was high during this movie?

posted 12 years ago by PurpleProseOfCairo
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I'm not saying that in judgement, it's just that his performance is so manic, so kinetic...there's that scene where he has been making out with MM and as he returns to his room he leaps up on the door frame and does a monkey impression! It looked unscripted to me, but it just typified all the energy he seemed to have for the whole of this movie. I love every second he's on screen, every line is so sharp and delivered so brilliantly - without him it would be quite a mushy, late-Seventies type movie, a soft-centred Mork and Mindy kind of thing.

Awight we're The Daamned we're a punk baand and this is called Carn't Be Appy T'day!

[–] suednim1960 12 years ago

That's what's called incredible, first class, top drawer, Oscar caliber acting from one of the finest actors of our time.

[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 12 years ago

I couldn't agree more.

Awight we're The Daamned we're a punk baand and this is called Carn't Be Appy T'day!

[–] BrettLovesKerri 11 years ago

he wasn't high during "The Goodbye girl' once. I've read this somewhere. He was just on top of his game in this movie. just simply great acting. that's why he got the Oscar. acting at its best

[–] kennellygerard 11 years ago

i read a review of the jeff daniels remake

and the critic perfectly described what dreyfuss achieved in the 1977 version

''able to suggest an energy that even performing onstage wasn't enough ''

[–] rascal67 11 years ago

Richard Dreyfuss can be entertaining to watch. He is however, mostly Richard Dreyfuss being Richard Dreyfuss. He is a strong personality and I don't feel that he was deserving of an Oscar® just because he was fun and cute to watch. He talks fast and gets manic and energetic with his mannerisms and readings and I don't really see him revealing many layers in this performance or others that came after. I think Herbert Ross, just let him pretty much do what he wanted to do. He was too desperate in this role. He was at his best in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS...-77' and especially JAWS-75', with Spielberg at the helm.