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I second/third/whatever the nominations for Caddyshack and Rushmore. If you run out of films with maximimum Bill, and still want more, he's got good cameos in Ed Wood & Wild Things (which are both fun movies in their own right, too).
However, the key to BM's godlike genius is, for me, contained in a scene from Tootsie. Murray & Dustin Hoffman are walking down the street, Hoffman complaining about having to dress like a woman and generally giving it his Method Acting schtick. Murray does two things in that scene, and two things only: says his lines, and eats a stick of celery. And his acting blows Hoffman's out of the water.
I think 7oak's on the right lines. Half of BM's charm for me is the balance between his enormously world-weary and enormously silly sides. It's like everything in the world kinda pisses him off, but he finds it all funny at the same time. That and a magesterial screen presence. But, yeah, in the end it probably all comes down to those wonderfully sad eyes.
I heard he once got busted crossing a border with 16 pounds of marijuana in his suitcase. He claimed it was for personal use, which a) I can believe, and b) may also explain a lot.
If you can, it's worth checking out his old SNL stuff, some of that's pretty good.
Orr - "colossus of duditude" sums him up perfectly.
Has anyone seen Where The Buffalo Roam, which I think is an adaptation of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (BM plays HST)? Is it any good? |
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