colinr0380 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:26 pm
Plus he became an early internet meme with "You're the man now, dog!" from Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester! (Finding Forrester unfortunately could not really compete with Van Sant's earlier Good Will Hunting and was pretty much overwhelmed by the same year's thematically similar Wonder Boys, but its not a bad piece of work. Though it is telling that Van Sant did that enormous swerve away from that kind of character drama into 'figures in the landscape' abstracted dramatics with Gerry, Elephant and Last Days after that!)
Finding Forrester is truly campy, and his overblown performance matches the silliness of the proceedings. To this day, I randomly spout some of the nonsense
that comes out of his eponymous character's mouth like "That's me up there!" (which he exclaims when seeing a portrait of himself in the prep school), "Punch the keeesh, boy!" and "Women will sleep with you if you write a BAD book".