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[Kadayi]

 

[Sidney Prescott]

Who remembers this classic? Pesci is masterful here. The shift of mood in the scene is so good.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Pesci was another king.

 

[Peter303]

 

[INC]

Jim Lahey is one of the greatest creations on screen, I miss John Dunsworth

Sometime i watch his old YouTube videos, its like being round an old family member, dudes a legend

 

[xandaca]

Taken from 'How To Get Ahead In Advertising' by Bruce Robinson (best known for Withnail & I), a Kafka-esque story of an ad executive, Bagley, who has a crisis of conscience and develops a sentient boil (with a moustache!) imbued with all his former cynicism and ruthlessness. It takes over his body and his life, with its cruelty and total lack of ethics turning him into the ultimate ad man even as his wife and friends abandon him. The film ends with this glorious monologue (the boil referred to is the original Bagley, now withering away on his shoulder) spoofing Thatcherite corporate consumerism:



(It's a very enjoyable film, though loses steam in the second half until this monologue. Withnail & I is the best of Robinson's films if there's a choice to be made.)

EDIT: Forgot that the film opens with a monologue as well, one not quite so operatic but still very entertaining.