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J.T. Walsh appeared in 2 Stephen King films.. Needful Things and Misery. to bad he had gone to soon. we could had use more of him in films. when Jack Nicholson won his Academy Award he dedicated to J.T. Walsh.
I think it's more often the issue that people leap headlong into relationships with people they don't know, much to their detriment. It's true that the Will character is clearly risk-averse, but there are many ways in which this movie is not true-to-life. This movie is very special to me, of course, but in real life, for instance, particularly in this country, no one is going to go to these lengths to ensure that you live up to your potential. I don't much appreciate the way that they make the Will character look like a jerk, particularly where they have him as having slept with a number of women before Skyler and then have him leave Skyler for no reason. The movie also has Will working as a janitor and then they assign deep meaning to his choice to be an MIT janitor. The screenplay writers conveniently forgot that in a different part of the movie, where Lambeau inquires with the shop about Will, Will's supervisor tells Lambeau that Will's P.O. set him up with the job. Will didn't say that, an objective third party did. Then, later, in one of the therapy sessions, Sean assigns deep meaning to the choice to be a janitor at MIT and Will doesn't even argue with him. The fact he even met Skyler in such a social venue and would choose to spend his time in a venue such as a bar is inconsistent with the reclusive genius archetype. In the event that a genius has social skills, it would seem fairly unlikely that they would fall through the cracks in this way. Not addressed by the movie are other realities such as the cost of education, credentialism in the white-collar world and the fact that between his lack of a degree and his criminal record, no company would hire such a person regardless of his prodigious abilities. The film ascribes Will's failure to thrive to his own choices rather than his circumstances and then adds a fairy tale ending to a story which, if there were some real-life equivalent (and I'm sure there is) would have to play out very differently. The one thing the film nailed on the head was the way in which the professor jumped to the conclusion that the janitor's contributions were "graffiti" based solely on his being a janitor and the way in which efforts to unmask him caused him to become defensive. In real life, a professor would be more likely to simply usurp the ideas of an anonymous benefactor and would not make any effort whatsoever to identify that person. Professors are known to brazenly steal from their own students, even when those students put their own names on their work. Somehow, in this movie, Skyler is a saint, the professor is a saint and therapists; some of the most dangerous people in the world; are all depicted as saints. Nonetheless, this movie is important because people such a Will do exist and they are being failed by the system. Our nation could be made stronger by a wholesale effort to help people like Will to live up to their potential. I can remember my teachers in high school responding to my telling them, whenever the topic of college was brought up, that my family could not afford college, with, "You don't want to go to college?!?" I would have liked to have spent my life collaborating with others with similar interests but I, instead, must spend my life interacting with people who cannot relate to topics such as physics for no reason other than because of money. Will was right to be resentful of people with money because that is the thing which likely kept him from living a lifestyle more typical of someone of his ability. I would love to see this movie reworked to be more reflective of my own experiences as I have invented many things upon which I didn't place my name. For instance, I think it would be more interesting if some updated version of this had a more dystopian angle and the Will character were being seriously pursued by the government as a consequence of his hobby of solving difficult problems. Then again, that would be less palatable to the audience as it would be too close to reality.
Loved this the first time I saw it, simple bit of camera work but it works well. Lucifer is there, just out of sight, not noticed by her until he draws attention to him.
God damn it what a fucking moment...This was absolutely gut wrenching to watch...one of Stallone's shining moments on film from one of his most underrated roles...ugh😭
