May Flowers, Posterized

20:07 (The Life Aquatic with Steve Eleanor Zissou)

screenshots from the 20th minute and 7th second of a movie
I can't guarantee the same results at home (different players/timing) I use a VLC


Steve Zissou: She’s a rich bitch you know. She was raised by maids. Her parents paid for this island and two of my worst movies. People say she’s the brains behind Team Zissou.

Ned Plimpton: People say a lot of things.
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Aragorn. Gandalf. Bob

We've reached the point in the Top 100 Actor countdown where it's impossible for me to imagine the cinematic decade (thus far) without the contribution of the actors listed. Everyone from here on out has, in one way or another, made some sort of immediate impact whether through a set of resonant turns, celebrity-of-the-moment ascendance, or a feeling that they're very "now" in terms of the movies if you know what I mean. It's always hard to divorce your feelings about actors from their entire body of work and look at just a set of years but that's what I've been attempting to do.

There are people who did not make the list that I think are fine actors but there wasn't necessarily enough from them in the past six years to justify inclusion.

At any rate: the next 15 people are where it's at. Here are three great "M"s: Murray, McKellen, and Mortenson. Read. Return and discuss if you want. You know how this works.