Brad Dourif on L&O and I dream of Bull the Bald Bailiff

[thehefner]

Oh rock, Brad Dourif was on LAW AND ORDER tonight (thanks for the heads-up, gnort!

The script itself was a bit dubious, but Dourif was excellent as always. I found myself cheering when the single tear rolled down his face. I realized that's kind of his trademark; really intense acting with a single tear shed in one or both eyes. He did it in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, he did it in EXORCIST III, he did in it in the excellent X-Files episode "Beyond the Sea," he did it in LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS as Wormtongue, and I'm fairly certain he did it in BABYLON 5. I wonder if Chucky the killer doll ever cried?

If he were more famous, we'd totally have "Brad Dourif tears" montages on YouTube. Any other instances come to mind, Dourif fans?

God, can someone please make THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS movie already so Dourif can play elderly Joker? Especially after what Heath Ledger seems to be doing, Brad Dourif would be absolutely fucking chilling. "Batman. Darling."

But who'd be old Batman? Mickey Rourke? And what about bald Harvey Dent? In any case, I call Sam Elliot for Jim Gordon!



Speaking of Harvey Dent and awesome character actors, I recently have added a new level of pipe dream to my Harvey Dent novel saga.

It seems that Richard Moll (Bull from NIGHT COURT and voice of Harvey/Two-Face on BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES) pretty much works for scale these days, doing low budget movies, short films, and web shows. I'm assuming it's a personal choice on his part, but then again, I wonder how many roles there are for a huge guy like him?

Well, in either case... it got me thinking that maybe, a few years down the line when I've edited the thing to a place of satisfaction... mayhaps I could get Richard Moll to perform the Harvey Dent novel on tape.

(Yes, yes, bloo_mountain, I'll track down Mark Hamill and try to get him to do a cameo as well; at that point, shit, why don't I just go and get Bob Hastings and Kevin Conroy to play Jim and Bruce and I can just relive my entire childhood. I'm cool with that.)

Whether or not I can ever get DC to publish the Harvey Dent novel, the thought of Richard Moll performing the entire book from Harvey's perspective(s)... I don't care if it's fanboy wankery, it gives me chills.

Hey, if some film school brat can get Adam West, Mark Hamill, Courtney Thorne Smith, and Dick Van Dyke to voice a short animated Batman film, and if entropicalia can hire the lead singer of the Verve Pipe to come perform at her home, why the hell not?

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[mirthical.livejournal.com]

I love how completely unrecognizable Mark Hamill's voice-acting can be - I just recently watched Nausicaa again, (he voices the Mayor of Pejite in the English dub) and even though I KNEW it was him, I still couldn't pick his own voice out.

also, hahaha "Law and Order" DUNG-DUNG! That's definitely the best part of the show.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Hamill might well be up for the Joker cameo in the novel; he's enough of a legit comic fanboy. He even did his own low-budget Christopher Guest style mockumentary COMIC BOOK! THE MOVIE with apparances from Stan Lee, Bruce Campbell, Kevin Smith, and Hugh Hefner, all playing themselves, with tons of voice-over actors playing the characters.

Fun fact! The DUNG-DUNG! used to freak the crap out of me when I was younger.

[mirthical.livejournal.com]

also!

on the free newspaper today (the Red Eye, which is owned and published by the Chicago Tribune) was a big ol' 2008 thing, with a giant photo of the Joker, and I was all OOOH but it turns out it was just a tease - there was maybe a paragraph about The Dark Knight, mixed in with all the other "looking forward to this stuff in 2008" crap.

And then I shook my fist and cursed those bastards at the Tribune. Getting me all hot and bothered and for NOTHING.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Cockteasing bastards.

... god, now I really really really want my DARK KNIGHT RETURNS movie with Brad Dourif as old creepy kinda-gay Joker. "They'll kill you for this... and they'll never know... that you didn't have the nerve..."

[gnort.livejournal.com]

You're welcome

[droidboy010101.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Dourif in Deadwood and I'm sure he cried a bit before he died in Dune or Alien Resurrection.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you know, I think you're right. I think he did cry in the moment of ultimate what-the-fuckery when the Alien/human baby is born and he delivered the immortal (Joss Whedon scripted) brain-breaking line, "You are a beautiful... beautiful... butterfly."

[droidboy010101.livejournal.com]

Brain breaking??? It freakin' ate my brain like the human/alien Hybrid did ol' Dr. Gediman... Weelllll, not as much as the Ripley "fork/fuck" exchange consumed my cranium.

Looking at IMDB, forgot the guy played a murderer AGAIN on Voyager over the span of three episodes... redeeming himself in the end (something that show never did for itself.)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I think I saw one of those episodes! I bet he did cry as well! Okay, so EXORCIST III, X-FILES, and VOYAGER, he played killers in prison cells, that's another motif! God, the guy out-Lecters Lecter.

Last One of "the Brad" crying....

[droidboy010101.livejournal.com]

...I promise.

As Sam in Spontaneous Combustion... straight to cable horrendousness...

[entropicalia.livejournal.com]

hell yeah, man. never underestimate the ways in which you're able to tilt the universe or create your own reality, for sure. :)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Doom approves of this mindset.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[spacechild.livejournal.com]

As Batman/Bruce in DKR: the Movie?

Just one person I can think of so far.

Bruce Willis.

Waitwaitwait!!.. hear me out.

Think about his performance in Sin City.

Hell, think about his performance in Planet Terror.. more subdued, but still a badass.

For that matter, perhaps Robert Rodriguez would be a good choice to direct.. He does great stuff with Miller's work, it seems.

But yeah.. Bruce as Bruce? I think it could work. He's got the build for it. He's not a bad actor. He can due the subdued aspects, he can do the slightly manic "Batman is back in the saddle" aspects, He can play the right age but still do the physical stuff.

Thoughts?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

SIN CITY definitely clinched it, and not just because it was Miller-written. I'm totally sold on Bruce as Bruce.

[spacechild.livejournal.com]

Whew.. I was afraid I was going to invoke violence.

So yeah.. I could definitely get behind that.