I saw Arsenic and Old Lace last week, and I’m reading Lord of the Rings, which explains why I made this association.
Gollum is Peter Lorre. Or Peter Lorre would have been the best actor to play Gollum. Or something like that. Just imagine Lorre saying “Lost it is, my precioussss”
I always pictured Gollum as more of a Jeff Goldblum, 3/4 of the way through The Fly.
Additionally, I’ve always thought of him as an analogy for drug abusers who’ve forsaken society for their precious (ring=drugs). But that may be too deep.
Peter Lorre comes to you in the middle of the night? Man, I’d be looking for a stronger sedative if I were you, doll.
Sad to say, but about the only thing that comes to me in the middle of the night is what bills I forgot to pay the day before. And that’s a really useless thing to be thinking about at 3am.
Other than that, it’s been a long time since any thing’s come to me in the middle of the night, a really, really long time.
Jim
Well, there’s a few things that have come to me in the middle of the night; a couple of monologues (fav’s of those that I’ve written), a film (I dreamed an entire film, then woke up and got down the plot and some dialogue before I started to forget), and quite a few short film and long film ideas. For the most part, I don’t remember my dreams (I would say I don’t dream, but I don’t want to spark up a debate on that) at night. If I take a snooze on the couch, though, I get some doozies.
On a side note, a friend of my prof’s is on the visual effects crew for the Lord of the Rings films.
Yes, sometimes good things come to you in the night. (Even if it wasn’t mentioned in the OP.)
But I have to disagree with Peter Lorre as Gollum. He would have to be all limbs and hair and madness, much like ChiefScott’s suggestion of J.G. as The Fly.
Hey, watch what you say about Peter Lorre - he’s my god!
And besides, Steve Buscemi is Gollum.