I spend time thinking about hypotheticals THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME.
Case in point--daydreaming about having dinner with certain personalities. Some people want to win the lottery. I want to eat a salad while chatting with interesting people. My husband, in a burst of romance, once tried to track down this writer that I adore in the hopes that he would write one paragraph about me. I really want to dine with that guy.
I've always sort of known about Bruce Campbell. I knew about Evil Dead 2 before most people thanks to my speed reading ability and a subscription to Entertainment Weekly from when I was in high school.
But I never really knew much about Bruce Campbell. Not enough to include him on my list of Hypothetical Dinner Dates. I mean he's a just character actor in odd B movies.
And then I heard him on the latest Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! I am smitten!
This is the sort of person I NEED to be dining with. The man argues that most A movies are really just B movies. According to Campbell, dressing up like a bat in a city called Gotham chasing a guy named The Joke is clearly standard B movie fare. After Campbell deftly segued to Spiderman by referencing the 1950s B movie quality of radioactive spider bites, the host of the program mentioned that Campbell had cameo roles in all three Spiderman films.
Campbell challenged him.
They weren't cameo roles.
They were pivotal roles, he insisted.
He then proves the importance of each character he played. My favorite was his role in Spiderman 2. He played the snooty usher at the theater. Campbell argued that that role was pivotal because it was he who prevented Peter Parker from seeing Mary Jane at the play. He claimed that he played the only character to have ever defeated Spiderman.
Now do you understand why I was smitten?
I think that I need to have dinner with this gentleman. I too often focus on that fact that I am only the snooty usher. I never realize when I defeat Spiderman.
And that is surely worth the price of dinner!
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2 comments:
What a great comment. I agree, you should have dinner.
Only person to have defeated spidey. Heh.
What if I find a man to call himself Bruce Campbell and get him to agree to have dinner with you - will this count? At the very least, you can say you had dinner with a character called Bruce Campbell. An actor acting the part of actor is much better than just the actor. It's a double winner! Let me know.
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