MORE sado-masochisitic drivel? HOT DOG!!!!
Tangent . The other night, I rewatched "The Mummy" in which John Hannah plays the n'er do well-but-lovable-idiot brother. Then thought of his his Lentus Batiatus,and compared it with the relatively harmless Peter Ustinov version and the petty viciousness of Ian Macniece in the remake.
In my opinion,Hannah's Batiatus is one of the great screen villians : He does the most appalling things, yet I never stopped liking and admiring him,as a man of his time and place,behaving according to his lights.
Tangent . The other night, I rewatched "The Mummy" in which John Hannah plays the n'er do well-but-lovable-idiot brother. Then thought of his his Lentus Batiatus,and compared it with the relatively harmless Peter Ustinov version and the petty viciousness of Ian Macniece in the remake.
In my opinion,Hannah's Batiatus is one of the great screen villians : He does the most appalling things, yet I never stopped liking and admiring him,as a man of his time and place,behaving according to his lights.
