All cheap and debonair

[sovay]

Talk to me about supporting characters. When you're supposed to fall for the heroine, and instead it's the second spear-carrier from the left who turns out to have the thorniest moral dilemma or the most fascinating backstory. This happens to me all the time; I can't be the only one. So who are your scene-stealers? Movies, books, operas—your own work—which character roles do you remember long after you've forgotten who played the protagonist?

(This post brought to you courtesy of Eleanor Cameron and L.M. Montgomery.)

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scene stealers

[dethbird.livejournal.com]

EDWIN NEAL, the hitchiker from the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. For my money, his scene is the climax of that film. Everything either leads up to or tapers away from that plot point.

and Tars Tarkus, the Thark from the Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Rick