Just watched The Fisher King directed by Terry Gilliam for the first time, starring Robin Williams. I had a sense of deja vu. Not because it was a Gilliam movie and it looked like 12 Monkeys. But because Robin Williams character was again a victim of tragedy. His wife was shot through the face by a crazy. This of course in movie-land turns Robin Williams insane. Then I realised I had seen this before in What Dreams May Come. In that colourful and visually imaginative film, Robin Williams wife was killed in a car accident. Also sending him into a spin. Then there was Gus Van Sant's, Good Will Hunting. Written by Jason Bourne and Ben Affleck. I recall Robin Williams character getting very angry and upset when math prodigy Matt Damon tried to psychoanalyse this analysts dead wife. Dead wife. Times Three. QED.
Just watched The Fisher King directed by Terry Gilliam for the first time, starring Robin Williams. I had a sense of deja vu. Not because it was a Gilliam movie and it looked like 12 Monkeys. But because Robin Williams character was again a victim of tragedy. His wife was shot through the face by a crazy. This of course in movie-land turns Robin Williams insane. Then I realised I had seen this before in What Dreams May Come. In that colourful and visually imaginative film, Robin Williams wife was killed in a car accident. Also sending him into a spin. Then there was Gus Van Sant's, Good Will Hunting. Written by Jason Bourne and Ben Affleck. I recall Robin Williams character getting very angry and upset when math prodigy Matt Damon tried to psychoanalyse this analysts dead wife. Dead wife. Times Three. QED.
