The Many Sides of Robin Williams
It is a bright Night in the small Alaskan town of Nightmute, like most nights and days for that matter in this town where the sun only sets a few months out of the year. A murder has occurred in this town by a mental imbalanced calculating man. Wait maybe this doesn’t interest you how about a different tail about an alcoholic psychiatrist that morns the loss of his wife in the bottom of a bottle, after giving up on his career and his life he is slowly pulled back from the brink of melancholy by a very gifted but very angry young man who is wasting his life and intelligence on petty fights and working as a janitor. If these tails are not your cup of tea then not to worry because Robin Williams will more than …show more content…
While being first and foremost a comedian, his style of acting doesn’t always have to have an over the top feel. Critics would say “all we ever see is mork” but if you look closer you will see an actor that can help us search our sole through the use of comedy. In the movie Bicentennial Man, Robin plays a robot that is trying to find his place in the world, searching for his own version of humanity throughout his long life. Or the movies Good Will Hunting and Dead Poet Society, where Robin plays a mentor helping the young and gifted try and find their way to adulthood using compassion and challenging them to think beyond themselves and their situation. While these movies are funny at moments, the depth of Robin’s characters help ground the situation and make them personal for all the views. Robin also played in dramas like Jacob the liar, were he plays a Jew in Nazi controlled Poland. He uses his gift for storytelling to inspire the hopeless of his town, while putting himself at risk of death for telling his tales. With these roles Robin sometimes uses the power of laughter to talk about deeper issues but the persona of these characters are definitely different than those of his normal over the top …show more content…
In movies like one hour photo, Insomnia, Death to smoochie, and What dreams may come. Robin shows us his extreme range, playing the despite, the mentally disturbed, the psychotic, and the lost. These movies are dark examples of man’s balance of comedy and tragedy. Showing for all the over the top funny roles Robin had played there are a few roles that fall at the far range of sanity. If Robin had made no comedy’s and started his career with these movies we would only know him as a master of drama and suspense, but sadly the image of “Mork” or the fast talking comedian are so ingrained in our minds it’s hard to appreciate these roles or give him the credit he deserves.
In this paper we have talked about the many faces of Robin Williams. For his one of a kind comic style on the big screen, to his casting light on the human experience, and ending with his diving into the dark reaches of all men. Loving him or hating him is your choice, but respecting his body of work should never be denied, because there will always be actors that make us laugh and cry, but no one will ever again do it like Robin Williams did, because his persona was a unicorn in a herd of horses. His style was his own never to be repeated only
It is a bright Night in the small Alaskan town of Nightmute, like most nights and days for that matter in this town where the sun only sets a few months out of the year. A murder has occurred in this town by a mental imbalanced calculating man. Wait maybe this doesn’t interest you how about a different tail about an alcoholic psychiatrist that morns the loss of his wife in the bottom of a bottle, after giving up on his career and his life he is slowly pulled back from the brink of melancholy by a very gifted but very angry young man who is wasting his life and intelligence on petty fights and working as a janitor. If these tails are not your cup of tea then not to worry because Robin Williams will more than …show more content…
While being first and foremost a comedian, his style of acting doesn’t always have to have an over the top feel. Critics would say “all we ever see is mork” but if you look closer you will see an actor that can help us search our sole through the use of comedy. In the movie Bicentennial Man, Robin plays a robot that is trying to find his place in the world, searching for his own version of humanity throughout his long life. Or the movies Good Will Hunting and Dead Poet Society, where Robin plays a mentor helping the young and gifted try and find their way to adulthood using compassion and challenging them to think beyond themselves and their situation. While these movies are funny at moments, the depth of Robin’s characters help ground the situation and make them personal for all the views. Robin also played in dramas like Jacob the liar, were he plays a Jew in Nazi controlled Poland. He uses his gift for storytelling to inspire the hopeless of his town, while putting himself at risk of death for telling his tales. With these roles Robin sometimes uses the power of laughter to talk about deeper issues but the persona of these characters are definitely different than those of his normal over the top …show more content…
In movies like one hour photo, Insomnia, Death to smoochie, and What dreams may come. Robin shows us his extreme range, playing the despite, the mentally disturbed, the psychotic, and the lost. These movies are dark examples of man’s balance of comedy and tragedy. Showing for all the over the top funny roles Robin had played there are a few roles that fall at the far range of sanity. If Robin had made no comedy’s and started his career with these movies we would only know him as a master of drama and suspense, but sadly the image of “Mork” or the fast talking comedian are so ingrained in our minds it’s hard to appreciate these roles or give him the credit he deserves.
In this paper we have talked about the many faces of Robin Williams. For his one of a kind comic style on the big screen, to his casting light on the human experience, and ending with his diving into the dark reaches of all men. Loving him or hating him is your choice, but respecting his body of work should never be denied, because there will always be actors that make us laugh and cry, but no one will ever again do it like Robin Williams did, because his persona was a unicorn in a herd of horses. His style was his own never to be repeated only