Mojo

Well, you're a ****. Just saying.

Anyway, I still don't feel as though I've fully wrapped my head around this. The last thing I read about it was that his family had scattered his ashes, and even though this was days after his death, it still felt as though as it came as some kind of shock. Like it can't possibly be true. That's strange. I don't think I've felt that way after a celebrity death before.

Mrs. Doubtfire, Aladdin, Jumanji, Hook...I don't think any one individual dominated so much of my film-watching as a child. I also used to watch Mork & Mindy on TV.

I always loved his part in Good Will Hunting too. Prior to his death, that and One Hour Photo were probably the two main examples of more serious and dramatic roles of his (and Dead Poets but, and this tends to incite a backlash, I cannot stand that film) but it always felt as though I had seen A LOT of his films. This week I've realised I haven't really. I've watched quite a few for the first time, including The Fisher King, Insomnia and Worlds Greatest Dad and enjoyed them greatly. I still have a few on my list to check out as well.

Even for all his roles, and there have been so many, I think the way I always want to remember him is on Inside the Actors Studio. That episode was the first to run for two hours, because he talked for over 5 hours and they couldn't bear to keep editing it down. A woman in the audience, who you can see and hear laughing violently throughout, was later diagnosed with a hernia. It's a performance that shows the pensive, serious nature you would expect from anyone who does that show but also the larger than life, animated, manic, inimitable comedian, riffing and doing routines, and taking the opportunity to make people laugh. Wonderful stuff.

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I heard Joss Whedon once say that comedians make good dramatic actors because if you can do comedic timing then dramatic timing is much easier. I don't know how true that is, but it's definitely true for Robin Williams. I'm not nearly as big a fan of his stand-up as I was when I was younger, but when you see him play a serious role it really lets you appreciate his comedy craft. He always has this intensity just below the surface, like his role in Insomnia (where he totally upstaged Al Pacino, who just came off like he was doing another role in another movie) where he was just so calm and normal seeming, and yet he had that creepy thing going on that you couldn't quite put your finger on. It let you know that his whole out of control, crazy shtick just isn't him running off at the mouth. He actually has complete control of it.

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I think I'd have to agree there. His stand-up, as well as his interviews and appearances, seemed to strike a great balance between improvisation and a written set. A lot of his set comes across as a riff, but it's to his credit that he isn't just going in hoping it's funny tonight, but is prepared and has a crafted set at hand, yet can still retain that manic, erratic feeling to his comedy.

Insomnia and One Hour Photo came out around the same time, and I think what you said about Insomnia can be applied to One Hour Photo as well. That role is just so monotone and almost lifeless, which makes it very sinister and creepy. It's a great performance, only made better by it being almost the complete opposite to what you thought you expected from a role Robin Williams would be cast in.

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Maybe his funniest bit ever. NSFW.

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Key

I can't believe i'm still in shock at the fact that he's actually gone.

GuD

I love this one

the last 10 seconds

YUP.

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Zhanteimi

Wtf!!! He died?!?!

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