Post by Toasted Cheese on May 26, 2019 5:42:21 GMT
That is funny. Only three years earlier, he played Lauren Bacall's stalked in "The Fan". It was an enjoyable movie, but also a little bit of a weird movie, too, because you never got the sense that Biehn character was really all that heterosexual, and then compound that with the fact that the object of his sexual obsessions was not really very feminine (I mean Lauren Bacal had sass and James Garner seemed to like her), but really her "Sally" would have appealed much more to older gay men, because of flamboyance and attitude and that Elaine Stritch weariness that LB could exuded from time to time (It was certainly not for her singing voice!) Something was not clicking the right way when they made this little suspense-musical-slasher... I wasn't sure if "Duglass Breen" was a closeted homosxual who might try and charm on LB, or he had somehow convinced himself that he was a stud enough to have attracted this Broadway at the very beginning of decline'
Thank God Maureen Stapleton was around to deliver the film's one good performance.
The Fan is a pot-boiler and made with a few too many incompatible ingredients. It can be fun to watch, but only because it is thematically skewered and while it comes across as well intentioned and has good production values, it is a bit corny and even absurd. This naivety in the production undermines the sadistic nature of Breen in the film and it also lacks chills. It comes across as more of a dark psychological drama, rather than a dark psychological thriller and the drama is flat and murky.
As for the OP's question hard call. I used to have crushes on actors in t.v. series that weren't fathers, but wanted them to be mine. Oh, it can be movies too, Clark Griswold.