Greatest movie villain – FACT!
Robbed of Oscars and
BAFTAs by that sinking boat – FACT!
Well the great man came to
my city last night!
Of course I only brought a ticket for THE INFERNAL COMEDY at Birmingham's Symphony Hall because of the Con Air connection and due to the fact that A-List actors never come to Birmingham (apart from 20th July 2000 when Clooney and Wahlberg came for their Perfect Storm Premiere). I knew nothing about the play or Jack Unterweger (thank you Google for your help), I didn’t know what to expect and wondered if I would understand or like it.
After last night I surprised myself because I did understand it (I think), to get to the point it was Unterweger telling his life story at a ‘book reading’ with the help of two Opera singers who represented the different women in Unterweger’s life (well that’s what the program and my intelligent Movie Mate said). I loved it and yes the best part of the play wasn’t the music and singers as talented and good as they were but it was J.M (now the coolest actor ever). I couldn’t take my eyes of him even when I should have been reading the subtitles during the ‘opera bits’.
My only negative about The
Infernal Comedy was the Symphony Hall programme – how dare they not mention the
greatest movie ever made in J.M Biography. Note to Mr Malkovich don’t hide the
Virus be Cyrus and proud!
Yes he is not my ‘type’
when it comes to men. He isn’t French and he doesn’t sing in a rock band. But Mr Malkovich is a living legend to me,
the coolest movie baddie ever - Cyrus the Virus Grissom and the only man to
make orange jumpsuits look stylish. Con Air would be my specialist subject on
Mastermind. I know it word for word and when I first met Monsieur X I pretended I understood the French language by watching the dubbed version with him.
J.M as opened my eyes to a
few films I would never have considered watching for example Shadows and Fog
was the first Woody Allen film I watched. I didn’t understand it but I watched
it and Burn after Learning was the first Coen Brothers’ film I stayed awake
thought it. Being John Malkovich was original
and funny, I developed an Oreo addiction after watching Rounders and ‘his blink
and you will miss him’ appearance was the only good thing about Transformers 3.
But I do prefer the psycho typecasting in In the Line of Fire and Red.
So, thank you for visiting Mr
Malkovich, come back to Birmingham soon because thanks to you (& the brilliant weather),
Birmingham wasn’t Boredville this weekend.
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