In honor of Robin Williams: favorite movie of his

[Bazza]

GWH for me.

This scene was very emotional........

 

[Bazza]

King of the Moon in Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Nice Bilbo....had forgotten that one....

 

[Aledinho]

The Survivors (1983) with Walter Matthau where Robin Williams joins a survivalist group after being mugged. It got pretty poor reviews but I thought it was really funny.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

He did a truly exceptional guest shot on Homicide.

 

[Elefantman]

One of my favs (I know I'll get some flack and I don't care)...saw it at the Martin Twin in Cullman back when I was growing up. I always thought the "live action" take on it was cool.

Just watched it again with my six year old grand son. He loved it. It's a great kids movie.

 

[CrimsonTheory]

For me it's a tie between DPS, Good Will Hunting and What Dreams May Come. Gun to head, I would probably say WDMC is my favorite Williams performance.

 

[BamaJama17]

Hook.

 

[CajunCrimson]

He was very good in August Rush too

 

[Bazza]

I have always heard the when Williams was doing the voice of the Genie there is several takes not used because they were too blue. They kept having to remind him it was Disney.

From Huffpost: Apparently, the Academy Awards rejected the bid for "Aladdin" in the Best Adapted Screenplay category because so much of Williams role ended up being improvised. According to producer and director John Musker, Williams ended up improvising about 70 impressions to be used in the film as well. In a Reddit AMA, Williams explained:

Initially they came in and I was just doing the scripted lines and I asked 'Do you mind if I try something?' and then 18 hours of recording later, they had the genie. I just started playing, and they said "just go with it, go with it, go with it." So I improvised the character. I think that in the end, there were something like 40 different voices that I did for that role.

What a gifted amazing man he was....