“I tell you to play within your means, you risk your whole bankroll,” he says, and you can tell he’s been thinking about this exact conversation for a while. Knish, who warned Mike several times about avoiding spots exactly like the one Mike has found himself in, puts on his Dad Voice and begins to chide Mike. He makes a last-minute visit to Knish and asks Knish to lend him some money. Late in the movie, Mike finds himself jammed up pretty good: He owes $15,000 to a very dangerous man and has only a few hours left to figure out where to get the money. Turturro plays a character named Joey Knish, a legendary New York rounder (someone who earns their living playing cards) who Mike appears to respect but secretly sees as a cautionary tale. It starred Matt Damon as Mike McDermott, a talented young card player and law student who isn’t quite certain which of those two things he wants to give up in pursuit in the other.
There’s a scene in Rounders featuring Turturro that, were I tasked with finding one single moment in his filmography to show how good he is at moving around in the minutiae of a conversation, I would for sure pick. That’s probably the scene you’d pull up if you wanted to, in as quick a way as possible and as loudly a way as possible, convince someone of John Turturro’s capacity for being an absolute weirdo in absolutely the best way possible.īut to do anything in as quick a way as possible, or as loud a way as possible, would be an affront to Turturro’s slow-cook genius. Or take, for example, the scene in The Big Lebowski when he introduces us to Jesus Quintana, his most unstoppably iconic character creation. That’s probably the scene you’d pull up if you wanted to, in as quick a way as possible and as loudly a way as possible, convince someone of John Turturro’s capacity for bottling a very specific kind of mania. Or take, for another example, the scene in Five Corners when he responds to a dismissal by Jodie Foster by beating a penguin to death with a large stick. That’s probably the scene you’d pull up if you wanted to, in as quick a way as possible and as loudly a way as possible, convince someone of John Turturro’s capacity for weaponizing language. Or take, for example, the scene in Barton Fink when he mythologizes the common man. That’s probably the scene you’d pull up if you wanted to, in as quick a way as possible and as loudly a way as possible, convince someone of John Turturro’s capacity for top-level acting. Take, for example, the scene when he thinks he’s about to be murdered in the woods in Miller’s Crossing.
He’s obviously brilliant in other circumstances. How “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” Saved ‘Dirty Dancing’ No, Laughing Matters: The Difficulty With Streaming Comedies
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