In that last couple of years, on Tuesday, I've been looking forward to the Onion's AV Club moreso than the satire. This week's special on Bad Scenes in Good movies/Good Scenes in Bad Movies. Highlights features cinematic weirdos Christopher Walken and my favourite, Crispin Glover.
Sometimes, the strangest actors do their most subversive work in children's films, where their demented quirks stand in sharp relief to the family-friendly wholesomeness. (See also: Christopher Walken in The Country Bears, above.) As the prototypically cruel head of a orphanage, Glover forgets he's in an overlong Nike commercial and sets about terrorizing kids in his inimitably peculiar style. In the most twisted scene, Glover tries to squeeze information out of young Jonathan Lipnicki (the bespectacled moppet from Jerry Maguire) by holding a lighter under the sole remaining picture of his long-lost mother.
What is it? Glover inspired trauma.
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