Maybe since his character is part of the movie nobody comments on it, but holy crap was Hurt's character creepy.
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Philo's Law: To learn from your mistakes, you have to realize you're making mistakes.
Yup. Borderline stalker. It's good they got him to play the role or the romance would've been even more awkward and stalkerish. I guess the logic is that he's an eccentric because of the war, but he clearly had issues before as well.
shareFor sure no smart tv woman reporter today would fall for a janitor.
sharedoes anyone know if this was intentional? or was he simply meant to be "quirky"? it's hard to remember what it was like in 1981, if this was truly creepy/stalker behavior. we certainly, culturally, we know a lot more about "stalkers" now than we did then. plus, it seemed to me that he had PTSD; which we also know a lot more about.
Hurt played it good and creepy, but then by the end he was the victim, so we felt bad for him. but, jeez, the first third of the movie or so had me really thinking he was potentially dangerous!
People have pointed out that there is a weird episode of Seinfeld where Jerry happens to show up (he plans the whole thing) at a crush's workplace to ask her out to lunch. I'm not saying it is exactly stalking, but this was the sort of thing was portrayed as normal, quirky, or even romantic at least as recently as 1990.
shareIn real life, situations like that are hella sketchy and creepy. In film or tv, if done right it can be passable.
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