Recent Bill Murray Flicks
Bill Murray is one of those actors who has shifted role types over the years. These days the Saturday Night Live cast member seems to have fallen into a character that might be too real to be funny.
In “Lost in Translation” he plays a declining actor hanging out in Asia to do some commercials. The character is beyond the midlife crisis but that’s the feel of the movie - midlife crisis. And it was definately lost on me.
“Broken Flowers” is another recent middle aged movie starring Murray. In it he plays a just beyond middle aged man who is written an anonymous letter by a one-time lover claiming that he has a son. He embarks on a slow moving and fruitless journey to find the mother of his son.
Perhaps Murray has enough money that he can merely play the roles that he wants to play - these being somewhat out of the main stream, or perhaps he is personally stuck playing his life on the big screen until something better comes along. Here’s hoping it comes soon.
