Booooooooo!
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fr_defenestratoSome filmic characters we never think twice about: they are complete entities unto themselves. We don't have to work to suspend our disbelief; we don't need to think about the actor playing the role. That character is that character to us.
But as my beloved brother is wont to go "Booooo!" in an uncannily precise imitation of the old peasant woman who boos Princess Buttercup and calls her "the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of PYOOOOOO-trescence!" in The Princess Bride, I am delighted to point out that the actor Margery Mason can also be seen as "Teacher's Wife" in Pink Floyd the Wall—a terrifying figure in precisely one scene who, with a wiggle of her finger, compels her effete husband to pick up the bit of gristle he has just sneakily stashed on his plate and put it back in his mouth. This is another instance of a wholly self-sufficient character to me, one I've had in my mind's eye since first seeing The Wall in 1982. I've never connected the two till now. Dog bless imdb. The world is weirdish.
(She also played the ["anything from the"] Trolley ["dears?"] Lady from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She's 87 now.)
But as my beloved brother is wont to go "Booooo!" in an uncannily precise imitation of the old peasant woman who boos Princess Buttercup and calls her "the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of PYOOOOOO-trescence!" in The Princess Bride, I am delighted to point out that the actor Margery Mason can also be seen as "Teacher's Wife" in Pink Floyd the Wall—a terrifying figure in precisely one scene who, with a wiggle of her finger, compels her effete husband to pick up the bit of gristle he has just sneakily stashed on his plate and put it back in his mouth. This is another instance of a wholly self-sufficient character to me, one I've had in my mind's eye since first seeing The Wall in 1982. I've never connected the two till now. Dog bless imdb. The world is weirdish.
(She also played the ["anything from the"] Trolley ["dears?"] Lady from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She's 87 now.)
