Except his one speech was necessary. The main guy is grumbling about how his girlfriend’s parents are forcing them to take a thirty-day break. Cruise’s character ambles up and says, “When I was ten years old, I started a fire, and instead of getting in trouble, I was a hero!” That influences the main guy to start a fire on the GF’s family’s front porch, and presumably win her/them back. Of course it goes horribly wrong…
(That’s also a different setup than in the novel the movie is based on. In that, he wasn’t thinking about heroics; he just wanted the family to leave the house and face him. But the movie dialogue had to spell out a reason for him to set the fire, other than the fact that he was unstable.)
I was watching The Expanse for the first time for a while back, and there’s a spy in a few episodes named Kenzo played by Elias Toufexis.
“Where the f do I know this guy from?” It was killing me. As it turns out, he voiced Adam Jensen in the Deus Ex “prequels”–Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. His voice is unmistakable.
I was aware of the Weir connection. But it was just a week ago that I learned the artist for Cheshire Crossing (the book version) was Sarah Andersen, who also does Sarah’s Scribbles. I’ve read Fangs so I was aware she did artwork different than the style she uses in her webcomic but I didn’t recognize her as the artist in Cheshire Crossing.
This is the one I was coming to post. I didn’t realize that was Gary Oldman until days later when a friend mentioned it. In fairness, though, that was back in 1993 before most of Oldman’s body of work we know and love today. At the time I only really knew him from Dracula and State of Grace. Plus maybe JFK. I think I had also seen Sid and Nancy, but wouldn’t have known or associated him with that.
True Romance was so long ago that it was not only before The Fifth Element, it even predated Leon (The Professional)!