First he's wearing a sailor outfit(Popeye), then a millatary outfit(Good Morning Vietnam), then twice he puts on a dress(Mrs. Doubtfire and The Birdcage).
It kinda makes me wonder.
the man is just very "versatile"
it just shows hes a great actor!
tell me who else can go from popeye to a genie in a lamp!
:)
I think Robin Williams is one of the most under-rated actors in the past 25 years. He's no Cary Grant, or Russell Crowe, or (God forbid) Jim Carry, but he doesn't try to be. He has his unique way to both getting into a character, with wide versility, and getting into your heart with almost every role. If he hadn't started in stand-up comedy, his acclaim would be no doubt higher than it is now. Many people still expect to see Mork.
Consider some of his versatile roles. With some previous successes (esp. World According to Garp), Good Morning Vietnam put him on the Hollway "map." Hilarious, pithy, anti-establishment - and everyone seeing the world from his view and agreeing with it (especially with our post-Vietnam perspectives). And, by the way, this is a Vietnam film - it took place before things got way out of control when former VP Dick became Pres Dick.
The late 80s and early 90s followed with some solid films, mostly. But Mrs. Doubtfire was something else again. Excellent acting, a solid script around the disolution of a family without all the usual Hollywood guilt pointing, and Williams taking a brave risk that paid off.
The next genuinely interesting performance was Jumanji. Another film that easily could have been silly, stupid and boring - it was Williams that carried it through. From there The Birdcage - totally different, another risk to offend some people, probably even a bigger risk , and another solid performance.
My two personal favorites are the science fiction films in 98 and 99. And how many actors in Hollywood (were brave enough to do serious science fiction in the late 90s? Very few; it wasn't fashionable exceot for Jurassic Park, if you want to call that science fiction.) What Dreams May Come (from Twilight Zone writer Richard Matheson) was a beautiful emotional film, even as it risks offending many staunch religious groups. How can one watch this film and not be an emotional captive? In fact, it was the studio that wouldn't take the risk - the alternate ending was was far better and true to the basic premise of the story than the 'Hollywood ending' released to the theaters.
Then came Bicenntial Man. Isaac Asimov was a brilliant sci fi author whose stories seldom translated well to the screen (I won't weight in here on I,Robot last year, except to imagine if I, Robot had been filmed with the directorial mood of Blade Runner - now that would have been one hell of a film!) Williams is nothing less than brilliant as Andrew Martin, under playing the emotion just enough, and finding his way to the viewer's heart. Like a surgeon, his emotional knife cuts just so.
And then, shockingly, comes Williams in One Hour Photo and Insomnia playing, ohmigod, the bad guy. Really bad, played really well. This is a stand-up comic?
You can count Robins Williams' films on one hand that were disappointing or over-hyped (people talked more about Patch Adams before its release than after, and let's not talk about Hook - that movie wasn't his fault). But the odds are strong that a random Robin Williams film is an emotional treat. He is definitely an under-appreciated actor, with more inherent talent than many of the "block buster" types in Hollywood now. People still don't rush to the theater saying "It's the new Robin Williams film!!". But they leave, somewhat changed, definitely circumspect, saying "What a great film, what a great actor."
My opinion, anyway.
wonder no more elmware hes married with kids hes just a wild and crazy guy and millions love him including me but curious does that mean u havent seen any of his movie but maybe 1 or 2 the guys huge
I heard in his next movie he's playing a Native American construction worker who rides a Harley
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have you seen one hour photo
hes a creep
obviously if he can be a creep in one movie he can be a'wierdo' in another
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember him putting on a dress in The Birdcage. He did play the gay owner of the nightclub but at no point did he dress up as a woman. Nathan Lane and Hank Azaria dressed up as women (and Azaria didn't wear a dress).
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'Bicentennial Man', is what I think you'r trying to remember. It's about a robot who lives for two hundred years, and becomes basically human.
We break through the Ethereal, only to discover that reality is a dark and hideous thing
Actors want to be able to do different things so that they do not get type casted.
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He totally sucks.
Get busy livin..... or die tryin - Morgan Freeman, "The Shawshank Redemption"
Robin Williams is a very good comedian and one of his most famous character that I loved watching as a kid was Mork and Mindy. He was hilarious playing Mork from Ork and I first saw him playing that character on Happy Days. That was the launch of his career right there.
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