![]() Sharp requires Willis to channel profound sadness while expressing very little. Though not insecure, Sharp is a lonely man seeking companionship, something that he yearns for in his misplaced affection for Mrs. Instead, he reads as a quietly emasculated man sheltering his melancholy under the protective status of being his town’s only authority figure. One could argue that much of Wes Anderson’s oeuvre is marked by similarly restrained, stilted dialogue in the performances he asks of his actors, or that it’s the kind of unemotive acting that would be seen in Willis’ later “geezer teasers.” But Captain Sharp is not necessarily a deadpan character, and he is certainly not generated through a phoned-in performance. In Moonrise Kingdom, Captain Sharp is no John McClane, but he is still a working class man, a perceived “tough guy” cop, caught up in the middle of a major scandal while tangled in his own love life. But what it comes down to is that Willis is always good as the “guy with a problem,” whether that’s being trapped inside a skyscraping terrorist takeover or caught between the affections of two undead women. Sadly, the diversity in Willis’ roles became even less consistent as his career went on. And while his performance in the widely panned satire Breakfast of Champions was deemed by Sight & Sound to be “embarrassingly indulgent,” Roger Ebert felt that Disney’s The Kid proved “that Willis, so easily identified with action movies, is gifted in the areas of comedy and pathos.” Ernest Menville in Robert Zemekis’s 1992 fantasy-comedy Death Becomes Her. Willis kills (no pun intended) as the hysterical, dorky Dr. But Willis has shown clear ability to flit from genre to genre, like in Rob Reiner’s romance The Story of Us, or erotic thriller The Color of Night. Night Shyamalan are less volatile, but still evoke the emotional intensity of his typecast range. The performances seen in his work with M. On the surface, the role of Captain Sharp stands in sharp contrast to the bulk of Willis’ career defined by macho tough guys, explosive action heroes and working class protagonists. Bishop (eventually the one to end their affair). And though little else is revealed about the nature of their past together, it can be inferred that their relationship remains exclusively sexual on the part of Mrs. Bishop and Sharp grew from Sharp’s unrequited love. ![]() Over the course of the film, we learn that the affair between Mrs. Instead, she hops on her bike and meets Sharp up the road to smoke cigarettes together, and if they do anything else, well, it’s not explicitly depicted in the film.Įventually, Sharp is forced to lead the search for the runaway Suzy and Sam, and acts as the pragmatic voice of reason mitigating conflict between the hot-headed Bishops and the scatterbrained though well-meaning Khaki Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton). Bishop discretely leaves the house under the guise of doing laundry. He asks the couple-discontented and loveless-to be on the lookout for the boy, after which Mrs. ![]() One of the earliest scenes with Captain Sharp sees him inform Mr. Though a subdued character by nature-not superficially unlike the muted performances which would begin to define Willis’s late career-Willis is no less affecting in his melancholic portrayal of the “sad, dumb policeman,” as described curtly by Suzy to her mother. Sharp not only offers Sam true guardianship and treats him as an equal-instead of as the emotionally disturbed nuisance everyone makes him out to be-but extends Sam the warmth and understanding that only another abandoned outsider could give him. Sharp’s entrance into Sam’s life changes everything for the orphan who’d been bullied by his Khaki Scout troop and abandoned by his foster family. The two preteens have fled on a romantic escapade to rid themselves of the adult oppression in their lives, though their passionate jaunt is cut short (for only a little while) when said adults finally manage to track them down despite Sam’s commendable outdoorsmanship. Sharp is having an affair with the mother of Sam’s paramour, Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward), played by Frances McDormand, and subsequently leads the search party for retrieving Sam and Suzy. Willis played police Captain Sharp of the fictional island of New Penzance in Wes Anderson’s 2012 coming-of-age film, alongside Gilman’s Khaki Scout Sam Shakusky. Back in November 2021, Moonrise Kingdom lead Jared Gilman briefly shared his experience working with his former costar, Bruce Willis.
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