My favorite ever scene, above and beyond Bayliss's sniper soliloquoy and Kellerman's arc and Lewis's humane crankiness and Gee's slow burn was the scene where Steve Buscemi is in the box, as a white supremacist loser, and Pembleton brings in books he has found in this guy's apartment -- Aristotle in Ancient Greek, like that.
He asks the guy, Can you read these books? Of course he can't, but he opens up a page and extemporizes about the general topic, pretending he can, and with that sick grin Pembleton turns the book around and sight-reads two sentences perfectly.
Just beautiful, the way he reads out in that archaic Greek style, all deep education and joy of learning, screwing his real, earned superiority into this weaselly little shmuck in front of him. The look on Buscemi's face.
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Date: 2005-12-08 09:33 pm (UTC)He asks the guy, Can you read these books? Of course he can't, but he opens up a page and extemporizes about the general topic, pretending he can, and with that sick grin Pembleton turns the book around and sight-reads two sentences perfectly.
Just beautiful, the way he reads out in that archaic Greek style, all deep education and joy of learning, screwing his real, earned superiority into this weaselly little shmuck in front of him. The look on Buscemi's face.