What does he remember about Hitler? That Broadway Melody was his favorite movie. Movie trivia infests Binford’s world history. In Fade to Black, plays Eric Binford, a movie geek who’s blossoming into a young sociopath with a bright murderous future with a little help from his celluloid heroes. He would go on to huff an asthma inhaler in Stephen King’s It and play Borta on a Star Trek deep dish pizza spinoff. BAFTA gave him an award for most promising newcomer.
It stars Dennis Christopher, a quintessential coming-of-age actor who came of age on the classic coming-of-age-on-a-bike film Breaking Away. Watching old movies late at night, the only time you could catch them in the days before cable, on the little black and white TV by his bed.įade to Black is a coming-of-age movie for psychotic film geeks.
I recognized the character of Eric Binford immediately. The kind of geek who can recite scripts, spot future stars in bit parts and knows who was cranking the camera. It might sound smart for a minute, but it marks you as a film geek. It’s like trying to yell out the answers before the contestants on Jeopardy. You wonder what line is that from? When you recognize the voice, you try to identify the film before they show something iconic. Any movie that opens with James Cagney clips gets a film buff/movie geek’s attention.
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