I entirely blame @patrickhwillems for this spontaneous Ebay purchase.
There is A LOT going on in Wolf.
Most of it is a publishing house drama? And Jack Nicholson as a werewolf looks exactly like Creature from Carry On Screaming? And mega-deviant of American cinema James Spader is here? And also Niles Crane?!
This is my big problem with biopic acting in general: People get too bogged down in impersonation to the point where they may as well be Disney animatronics. It's far preferable to see an actor take risks & eschew the tics in favour of something more accurate in terms of essence.
This is one of the reasons I give Renee Zellweger a lot of credit for her Judy Garland performance. No, it's not a pinpoint accurate recreation of Garland but it nails that fragile bird energy she had, as well as the oft-overlooked wit, the tiredness, the tenacity, etc.
I've become far less impressed with the showy biopic performances over the years. Yeah, it can be technically impressive but stuff like Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc, just end up feeling like homework rather than something artistically rewarding.
I understand that, in the grand scheme of Britain's toxic transphobia problem, the fact that these people scramble to throw their cash at bad art & culture is the least of it, but it still entertains me somewhat to see all these bigots "protest" by supporting the stupidest crap.
This is nothing new. See every bad-faith wannabe talking-head pretending L*r*nce F*x is some underappreciated acting genius.
Why support MS Paint smears and a woman obsessed with wizard shitting when you could check out amazing trans & non-binary writers?