Character Depth - Graham Dalton
This gem comes to us from Christina Ferguson:
One of my favorite movie characters of all time is Graham Dalton from Sex, Lies and Videotape. He's an honest pathological liar. An impotent man obsessed with sex. A man who is able to know the female subjects he videotapes more intimately than their husbands, without touching them. He comes to town to obtain some measure of closure on a relationship he destroyed ten years earlier and ends up inspiring a naive woman to leave her deceitful husband, his former friend. In doing so, he redeems himself. All of this - while in dire need of a simple haircut.
4 comments:
This was great, Christina. I particularly enjoyed the "honest pathological liar," and how well he could know one of his females subject. Beautiful!
That was a disturbing movie, but I like to be disturbed. I loved the way James Spader captured both the vulnerability and creepiness of that character. He went places with Graham that a lot of people would be scared to go.
James Spader is truly fearless, isn't he? Or hard up for money. Hehehe... I like him.
He's the actor, actually, I'd most like to eat dinner with... He seems incredibly intelligent, yet a bit weird in a good way. The way he took Graham Dalton? No one else could have pulled that off.
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