Will recoils from the shot and fires a shotgun blast, killing Walter and knocking him into the water, where he slowly sinks. "You forgot the wild card, Will" says Walter, before shooting Will with a pistol. Dodging a hail of gunfire, Will slips under the cabin and rushes inside. When he gets there, he tells Ellie to give him covering fire so he can get inside the cabin. He hallucinates almost crashing into an imaginary truck.
Still suffering the effects of sleep deprivation, he finds out Ellie went to the cabin, and drives after her. Will (Al Pacino) reveals to Rachel (Maura Tierney) that he was guilty of falsifying evidence by planting a drop of blood, and this was part of his guilty conscience. Ellie goes to Walter's cabin to look for him, but she is met by a hail of gunfire. She also finds the shell casing from the shot that killed Hap and puts everything together.
Ellie (Hilary Swank) figures this out from looking in one of Walter's books that Ellie had, and finding his autograph inside. Few actors straddle that line as well as Robin Williams did.Walter Finch (Robin Williams) is revealed to be the girl's murderer.
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The result is a quickfire, incredibly funny movie packed full of adult gags while aimed at kids. Without the Genie, it’s unlikely we would have had Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy in ‘Shrek’, Tom Hanks in ‘Toy Story’ and so on.įurthermore, his performance helped change the way animators worked with their voice artists. Yes, there had been iconic cartoon voices before (Phil Harris as Baloo), but think how Williams’ turn as the Genie in ‘Aladdin’ shaped modern animated movie-making.įor starters, it became cool for stars to lend their vocals to films. Eliciting pathos in the midst of chaos, it’s a role that ONLY Williams could have played. Taking the mickey out of Pierce Brosnan trying to pick up a woman forgetting that he’s dressed like an old woman that final farcical scene in the restaurant…the 1993 comedy pretty much sums up the actor’s many on-screen skills. Similarly, as Sean Maguire in ‘Hunting’, Williams made us empathise deeply with his loss, but also recognise the kernel of rage that drove him to help Matt Damon’s young prodigy. As a killer outfoxing Al Pacino in a town without night, ‘Insomnia’ is arguably one of Christopher Nolan’s best three films. The result was some of his best performances. And unlike many actors hellbent on maintaining their cuddly, family-friendly image, Williams wasn’t against tapping into that negativity. ‘Insomnia’, ‘One Hour Photo’, even ‘Good Will Hunting’ – despite being a huggable comedian, the star was always in touch with his darker side.Ĭlearly, as his suicide attests, he had his personal demons. He wasn’t afraid to shock his core audience “’Dead Poets Society’ made me want to be a teacher,” wrote “I wanted to be a journalist, saw ‘Dead Poets Society’, changed plans and became a teacher,” said Jacqueline Prins.Īs she added, “Good actors do change the world.” When he died, Twitter users jumped onto the network to proclaim how influential he’d been. ‘Dead Poets’ has its flaws (though Williams was rightly nominated for the Best Actor Oscar) but watching the actor as Mr Keating jumping on desks, doing classes outside and inspiring his pupils to defy authority (a bit) was stirring to many. “Oh captain, my captain”, “Carpe diem” – these were phrases from 1989’s ‘Dead Poets Society’ that made a host of wannabe educationalists think they could change the world. That led to some amazing moments and castmates desperately trying not to giggle. So good was he that the writers eventually started putting a stage direction in the scripts – “Robin goes off here” – where Williams was just expected to riff for the duration of the scene.
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Doubtfire Co-Starīut watch an episode of the subsequent series ‘Mork & Mindy’ (ABC had no choice but to commission a spin-off when they saw how hilarious Williams was in the role) and you really get a sense of his improv abilities. People forget that the crazy alien Mork was introduced during a particularly bizarre episode of family sitcom ‘Happy Days’ and involved the comedian freaking out the Fonz. In honour the late actor’s birthday (he would have been 65 today), we look back a some of his performances to explain what made him the star he was.
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