Geoffrey Rush (and the younger actor who played the younger David Helfgott) in Shine. (I know the movie is not terribly accurate, and the real David Helfgott’s sister says it is extremely unfair in its depiction of David’s father, but it is a great movie.)
Rock Hudson in “Seconds”
Joanne Woodward- Effect of Gamma-rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds
And many a Tuesday Weld movie, but especially Play it as it Lays.
Gary Oldman in Chattahoochee!
CMC fnord!
Gael Garcia Bernal plays an unstable protagonist coming apart at the seams in the French masterpiece The Science of Sleep. As his feelings of betrayal and worthlessness grow, he retreats more and more into a dream world, gradually losing the ability to tell the difference between dreams and reality. (As an aside, best film depiction of the dream state EVER.)
The Powder Blue Marine? I remember it from some movie… was it ode to Billy joe, or was it just a similar movie?
Billy Joe McCallister came apart…
I think it was was also updated or maybe “outdated” in the Four Feathers
Wilford Brimley as Doc in John Carpenter’s remake of “The Thing.” Being better educated and more intelligent than the others, he figures out long before they do what they’re facing, and what it means for their prospects for survival, and it drives him mad. His moments of lucidity only make the horror more … horrible.
IT was the Baby Blue Marine… not the Powder Blue Marine. And Ode to Billy Joe was incidental because the last time I saw it was at a Drive-in in the 70’s. (I didn’t realize the homo-erotic overtones until I read the IMDB synopais.). Regardless, I think this trio of movies is what faces us in modern times. What is the opposite of feminism? Because these are man quakes in the current and perhaps timeless mode. Many Men are going to come back damaged in these ways…although the circumstances are different, the masculine inadequacies and pathos are going to be especially magnified in these times. Men are all about their Dicks.
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard
Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream - drug induced, but quite a breakdown
Sean Gullette in Pi
Unfair to bring it up and not quote it! I AM NOT going to watch a whole movie for one line. :dubious:
How about the fat guy in Platoon?
Howard Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) in The Aviator.
Everyone who’s anyone, I’m sure, but most people stop short of reinventing themselves as crazed fascist leaders.
At the risk of a whoosh, are you actually referring to Vincent D’Onofrio’s character in Full Metal Jacket?
Patrick Warburton comes undone quite spectacularly in The Woman Chaser. Although he may have been nuts before the beginning of this neo-noir black comedy.
Or perhaps *I * need to be locked up, since I enjoyed the thing when I saw it on The Sundance Channel. Amazon has some “used–like new” VHS versions; I’d probably buy it on DVD.
I mean, it would be insane to buy a used videotape! (Adds to Wish List.)
Everyone in Dr. Strangelove at the end…Peter Sellers if I need to pick one.
Sailboat
He was already sort of broke when he enlisted, wasn’t he? Was the latrine scene really a breakdown, then?
This is my post. There are many like it, but this one is mine…
Naomi Watts’ ‘Diane’ in Mulholland Drive. That scream at the end… :eek:
Christian Bale in The Machinist.
Nope, it’s the blanket party that does him in. He’s never the brightest bulb in the tree, but he isn’t cracked either.