I CAN'T THINK OF A TITLE FOR THIS. ROBIN WILLIAMS COMMIT SUICIDE.

author=LockeZ
This and the scene from Mrs. Doubtfire where his son walks in on him peeing are basically my entire memory of Robin Williams.

I'm surprised this thread is still going after four days, I was under the impression that most people hate celebrity gossip and mock the media for their obsession with movie stars' personal lives.

Williams was something special, outside of the celebrity paradigm.

"I wasn't familiar with Robin Williams but I can't grasp that others were."

-LockeZ

We get it, dude.

I thought I was pretty familiar with him. I actually posted because I feel like I'm seriously missing something vital about his life, and was hoping someone would point that something out so I would be less lost.

Sorry for being an asshole.

When I was being flippant on page one, I honestly figured that the high emotion was probably just people who can't quite separate fiction from reality, and are actually attached to the characters he played rather than to him. And that kind of emotional response makes sense to me as an initial reaction but not as something people would keep talking about a week later, so now I'm more interested.

He also had lots of blank lines in the scripts which he filled up himself (he's a stand-up comedian after all), so unlike other actors that just played their character, he actually played himself.

Also there aren't actually all that many good-hearted people like him in the world, so losing one is quite sad.

That explanation makes sense. I think that in general I don't tend to think of most actors as artists, just as doing what they're told to do. If they do exactly what they're told to do, following the director's and scriptwriter's instructions perfectly without showing any of their own personality whatsoever, then they're considered great actors who truly become the characters on screen. While those whose real personalities or acting styles seep through the facade are considered poor actors because they're not as accurately portraying the characters.

I guess some of Robin Williams's roles were very different from that, though. The directors leaving blank lines in the scripts for him to fill is actually amazing.

I suppose the "good" news, so to speak, is that he got replaced as the Genie a while back. Someone else did the voice in Kingdom Hearts and a couple other things. So at least there will still be more Genie. And with what you said about his ad-lib roles, does that basically mean the current voice actor for the Genie is playing Robin Williams?

author=LockeZ
I suppose the "good" news, so to speak, is that he got replaced as the Genie a while back. Someone else did the voice in Kingdom Hearts and a couple other things. So at least there will still be more Genie. And with what you said about his ad-lib roles, does that basically mean the current voice actor for the Genie is playing Robin Williams?

Oh man, It would be good news, if the new guy acting Genie wasn't SHIT!

And it's not really his fault, but it's like bringing a knife to a gunfight. You're asking someone to replace a legendary VA while the new meat doesn't even do coke, and that won't work!

I'm still amazed they got the original voice of Hades for Kingdom Hearts, shit is great! Again, no one else can sell that!

The guy who replaced Williams as the voice of the genie is Dan Castellaneta. The voice of Homer Simpson. He also voiced the genie, first, in the animated series of Aladdin.

IMO, Castelleneta was better.