I'll be totally honest... in retrospect, all I was concerned about back then was Aladdin.
However, upon watching a 1992 milestone, Unforgiven, certain ideas have been confirmed:
ONE. Revisionist westerns deserve some lovin'.
TWO. Another instance of heroic whores: Prostitutes' heroism can come from their willingness to help out a fellow whore, even if it does entail putting a price on the offender's head.
THREE. Morgan Freeman is so awesome.
This post is supposed to be about Unforgiven, but I would like to take this opportunity to wax idiotic on behalf of Mr. Freeman. He's in the movie, so technically... it counts.
If I could spend one day with any live person, Morgan Freeman would easily be my top choice. Everything from his salt-and-pepper kinky hair, to his boyish freckles sprinkled across his face radiate warmth and genuineness. He has tackled interesting roles and has proved to be a very versatile actor, earning him nominations and an Academy Award. But his most outstanding feature has got to be his voice. Freeman's soothing baritone mixed with a slight southern drawl is just plain relaxing. There is a power in his voice that is instantly recognized and improbably forgotten. I bet you can think of what his voice sounds like right now.
If not, here's a refresher. (From Deep Impact)
In his role as Ned, Freeman delivered the appropriate amount of compassion and restraint to the character. Anything more brash or confrontational would have completely changed the regretful, simplistic tone Ned needs to have at that point in his life. Basically, the man is sweet. You gotta love him.
3 comments:
haha you are such a dork anniessa. did you look up all of those things that happened in 1992? but i do have to agree about Morgan Freeman, even though I didn't particularly care for the movie itself, he made it somewhat bearable. He always gets the role of the friend with the wise word. Coincidence?
I swear to god this man is in everything. There's probably a reason for that, because I don't think I've seen him in any bad movies...haha. yeah
~PSH
Haha Anniessa you always crack me up. I liked what you said about this film, I haven't seen it, we watched Once upon a time... it was good, if you haven't seen it you would probably like it! But anyway, i thought what you said about Morgan is funny, a lot of people don't pay attention to his talent anymore because its covered up by how humorous it is that he shows up in every frickin movie these days:
"Oh i watched a good movie this weekend"
"Was Morgan Freeman in it?"
"HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT??"
"Lucky guess..."
But you are right he is a pretty tight man if i do say so!
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