Nigel for the win!
Who's with me? He was the one character that consistently made sense to me. Probably also because he had all the best lines.
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MovieChat Forums > The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman (2013) Discussion > Nigel for the win!
Yes, I loved his casual wit. The film should have been about him and Gabi, with Charlie as a secondary character
You're god damn right I did!
Indeed. There can be no arguing that Mikkelsen is stealing the show here, with his strong screen presence. And his character, in its ambivalence, is way more compelling than LaBeouf's "young man being reduced to a confused kid" part.
In fact, after the handshake scene on the loo I was pretty confident that I had seen the highlight of the film. And in hindsight I believe I really did.
Nigel was the best character. He had the best lines and I agree that the movie should have been about him and Gabbi. Charlie was a blah main character.
shareHis death was odd. It fit the character well enough, but at the same time seemed out of left-field...kind of like the writers didn't know what else to do besides kill him off.
shareHis death was neither odd nor a writer's block, if anything its the opposite. When Gabi blatantly choose Charlie over him, he knew it was over and he lost his will to keep going. Its unmistakable that he forced a suicide by making the police officer fire a lethal shot.
Gabi was everything to him. If Charlie faced death over and over for love, why wouldn't Nigel go down the same path? It's an ongoing theme in the movie; death & love, starting with the loss of Charlie's mother.
Grand larceny, no doubt. He owned every scene he was in.
I will be hunting down every film he's made!
Bad guys are most of the time more interesting characters than the good guys, but at the end of the day no matter how interesting or cool they are... you still want to see the good guy win at the end of the day.
shareThe problem is that whenever Mads is on screen he is the only one you see. His screen presence is so strong that he should always play the main character.
Go back several years for example to Bleeder. Lenny is a secondary story, but sweet unassuming Lenny is the one that everyone wants to follow and know more about.
With Daniel Craig in James Bond who did an amazing job, but after seeing Mads, you think he should be James Bond.
This happens in everything we see him in.
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