Wow… Just wow…

[Horace]

I have no interest in a hagiography of Williams where we're supposed to buy into the notion that the guy was a creative genius.

[Aqua Letifer]

@horace said in Wow… Just wow…:

I have no interest in a hagiography of Williams where we're supposed to buy into the notion that the guy was a creative genius.

[Horace]

@aqua-letifer said in Wow… Just wow…:

@horace said in Wow… Just wow…:

I have no interest in a hagiography of Williams where we're supposed to buy into the notion that the guy was a creative genius.

did I say something wrong?

[Aqua Letifer]

@horace said in Wow… Just wow…:

@aqua-letifer said in Wow… Just wow…:

@horace said in Wow… Just wow…:

I have no interest in a hagiography of Williams where we're supposed to buy into the notion that the guy was a creative genius.

did I say something wrong?

Only my opinion, but I think Robin Williams was one of the best performers in modern history. I guess chalk me up as a cultural sheeple or whatever but I don't care.

[Horace]

He was one of the great performers in modern history IMO. But hamming it up for the camera at a genius level or the serious acting he did doesn't make him creative to me, which is what his legend is supposed to be. You could say my definition of creativity is too limited. Mostly I don't like that his legend is based on how hilarious he allegedly was, when he himself knew his limitations in that regard and stole material shamelessly. Or maybe not shamelessly as the case was.

[Doctor Phibes]

The material wasn't what made him hilarious, stolen or otherwise.

Genius is a massively over-used term, but IMHO Robin Williams was one of the few I've seen.

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in Wow… Just wow…:

The material wasn't what made him hilarious, stolen or otherwise.

Genius is a massively over-used term, but IMHO Robin Williams was one of the few I've seen.

I knew there would come a day when we disagreed about something.

[Mik]

I think we are splitting hairs too thin to be seen by the human eye. He was original and talented. I enjoyed his work.

[Horace]

He was a talentless hack who succeeded because of exactly two things: he was white, and he was male.

[mark]

Amazing.