He makes Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending look like a master of understatement. He just fucking goes for it, and it’s beautiful. While everyone else got to stand around saying quasi-deep shit like “No matter where you go, there you are,” Lithgow got a strong Russian accent and facial tics galore. John Lithgow does not get to be weird in a cool way.
#JUPITER HELL HUMBLE SERIAL#
The opening clip is of him immediately post-possession:īuckaroo Banzai is sci-fi pulp serial crossed with a Saturday morning cartoon, so it’s weird across the board-Buckaroo himself is a “brilliant neurosurgeon” who, “growing dissatisfied a life devoted solely to medicine… roamed the planet studying martial arts and paticle physics, collecting around him a most eccentric group” of rock star scientists-but most of the characters in it get to be weird in a cool way. In order to get back home, Whorfin-now inhabiting Lizardo’s body-must acquire a “oscillation overthruster” built by Banzai.Įmilio Lizardo/John Whorfin is fucking nuts. There, his brain was taken over by Lord John Whorfin, a maniacal alien serving out his exile from Planet Ten. Emilio Lizardo, a scientist whose experimentation with parallel dimensions landed him briefly in the Eighth Dimension. Lithgow played the main antagonist in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, a 1984 cult classic that bombed at the box office but attracted a small but ardent following on home video. Yeah, don’t.) There is a man who has gifted the world with the single most memorable performance in sci-fi history, and his name is John Fucking Lithgow, and we’re going to talk about it. No Chris Evans, so keep the CapAss gifs stowed.
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