Toilet Review: Robin Williams being utterly fantastic.
The world lost someone this week. Someone who had made it his life’s work to make us laugh, smile, think and just keep going. Robin Williams was the star of many movies, some of which will always hold a special place in our hearts because we saw them when we were little, we saw them on date nights, we saw them at Christmas time and they just remind us of family. There isn’t a single person who could say that they hated his movies. He was such a versatile actor. Whilst being universally loved for his comedic roles in “Aladdin” and “Mrs Doubtfire”, he showed us his serious acting abilities in such movies as “One Hour Photo” and “Insomnia”.
The world is just a little darker without him in, and I sincerely hope that his soul has finally achieved what ever peace so alluded it in life.
In his honour this week, I watched several of his movies, all of which I will no doubt review here. First up, “Good Morning Vietnam”.
If you’ve been living anywhere but under a rock for last quarter of a century, you have heard someone, somewhere, scream Adrian Cronauer’s immortal line “GOOOOOODDD MORNING VIETNAM!”. It has been parodied numerous times in all sorts of places, but no one does it quite like Robin Williams.
The movie focuses on a military dj being brought to Vietnam in 1965, just before the US really upped it’s army presence there and suddenly, an intervention became a war. Adrian Cronauer’s style does not sit well with the higher ups, his immediate superiors anyway, and we see the crisis in Vietnam played around the comedic timings of an early morning dj.
Soon, Adrian is involved with what could be a suspected terrorist, and when he is involved in a bombing of a local bar, Adrian cannot help but feel like he is being pulled in ways that he really doesn’t want to be.
Robin Williams ad libbed every single second of his “on-air” time as Adrian Cronauer. The speed of which he speaks, the hilarity of what he is saying, and the giggles and laughter of all around him can only be genuine. I loved watching him like this. He is clearly in his element, and the whole movie is better for it.
It’s not a “comedic” movie however. The undertones are quite dark and the rising tensions between the local population and the US armed forces is something that is seen time and time again throughout the movie.
Definitely worth a watch at any stage, but I think now would be a good time to sit back, curl up, grab some tea, and let this movie wash all over you.
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