Seeing Things Secondhand

The character: Cal Hockley The actor: Billy Zane The movie: Titanic (1997) There are four villainous characters (or at least four who are actively against the idea of Jack and Rose) in Titanic.

The character: Divine, AKA Babs Johnson The actor: Divine The movie: Pink Flamingos (1972) I like to think that we here at Seeing Things Secondhand generally edge away from the Randian.

The character: Rocky Gravo The actor: Gig Young The movie: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

The character: Ethan Edwards The actor: John Wayne The movie: The Searchers (1956) I know.

The character: Candyman The actor: Tony Todd The movie: Candyman (1992) “Hurt people hurt people” suffers from its brevity.

The character: Ernst Toller The actor: Ethan Hawke The movie: First Reformed (2017) In 2019, Joker came out and quickly won the title of “most obviously plagiaristic movie of the decade.”

The character: Old Scratch The actor: Walter Huston The movie: The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Within ten minutes of Faust, F.W.

The character: Son of the Hunter The actor: Francis Kee Teller The movie: Navajo (1952) Navajo was sold to audiences as a documentary when it was released in 1952, and it was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 25th Academy Awards.

The character: Julianne Potter The actor: Julia Roberts The movie: My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) Given that my last two posts have been about a guy I accuse of genocide and a guy who collaborates with Nazis and then tries to kill someone else in order to

The character: Mary Kate Danaher The actor: Maureen O’Hara The movie: The Quiet Man (1952) Scott Eyman, in his biography of John Ford, Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford, makes a nifty little observation about The Quiet Man and its heroine.