fr_defenestrato | Henry Fool

I rewatched Henry Fool last night for the first time since it was new and in preparation for watching Fay Grim tonight or tomorrow night, and through the entire movie I was trying to place Thomas Jay Ryan, who plays Henry. Specifically I was trying to locate his voice in my memory: every time he spoke I was gobsmacked by this intimate, immediate familiarity... I could almost hear his voice pronouncing lines directly out of... something else... WHAT else? WHAT THE FUCK ELSE?

Of course I was too lazy to go plug my laptop in, boot up, and check imdb. But in the process of doing so this morning, even before I got to his list of work and saw that he was uncredited in The Dying Gaul, it struck me: he sounds precisely like Campbell Scott. Precisely. It's friggin' uncanny how precisely he sounds like Campbell Scott. So what the hell was he uncredited for in The Dying Gaul? Voice double? Or! [melodramatic music swells] Has he always voiced Campbell Scott, in everything Campbell Scott has ever been in? Does Campbell Scott really sound like Gilbert Gottfried? or Truman Capote? or Doctor Mrs. the Monarch?

The world may never know.

Oh, yeah, I also got the 2HenryIV references for the first time. But Hal? Yo, Hal Hartley? I knew prince Hal, and Senator, you're no prince Hal. And Henry Fool is no Falstaff. And Simon Grim is really Doctor Venture, and he's way better off for it.