Akwafina was so real for her ending role in Jumanji when everyone was screaming Jumanji and she was like what'd they say????? Jumanji??? Like what an iconic duo of devito and akwafina. Hilarious her dramatic scene is being emotional with a horse what the fuck that's her best friend "that's my partner right there" fucking flies away as a pegasus god bless
Loved it. Nicholas Cage was obviously going to nail being a toxic and co-dependent Wallachian warlord, and Nicholas Hoult does a fine job at decoupling Renfield from the usual "Renfield syndrome" tropes. It's not Tom Waits as Renfield in Coppola's Dracula - still the best Renfield ever, IMHO - but it's fairly effective at reframing Dracula's thrall as what the movie's plot requires, which is a recovering co-dependent.
The movie isn't shy about being a splatterfest comedy sharing some kinship with the Feast movies, visually, and it also loves sticking garish and sickly greenish lights in unusual places. It's not everyday you see a community center's gym turn weirdly off-putting by the addition of a green light and everyone looking just south of cadaverous...
Loved the first few minutes' shot-for-shot homages of the Tod Browning original (as Universal just has to keep milking its monsters for all their worth, naturally) - and I thought it interesting that the designers tried to more or less to conflate Lugosi's Dracula with Shreck's Count Orlok in Cage's makeup design. Not a fan of the super-involved dental prosthetics - they always make overdubs really obvious - and I would've preferred a nice and standard pair of fangs; but it's still fun that the design basically screams "self-involved sociopathic narcissist who's not even vaguely aware of how plug-ugly he's become".
Great little bit of genre-bending, overall. Highly reccomended if you're looking for gore supercuts without the jumpscares - and especially if you're looking for another one of Cage's more gonzo performances.
Can someone tell me what kind of accent Akwafina has in Ocean's 8? Is this her natural voice or is she putting on an accent?
I am currently studying different accents through movies. PLEASE TELL me if it is just her natural way of talking or natural for the region she grew up in.