Regarding Henry, a 1991 motion picture starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening, is on my television. In it, Harrison Ford's character plays this super asshole lawyer who gets shot in the head during a convenience store robbery, survives, goes through an extensive and grueling physical therapy, and makes a miraculous recovery. The only problem is that he's been stricken with amnesia and understandably kind of retarded.
It's kind of stupid, because probably in reality, Henry would probably remain in a vegetative state ala Terri Schiavo, or maybe just a total whackjob running around all berserk and knocking over lamps or breaking car windows. I guess that could kind of be a comedy, but being shot in a convenience store would likely kick it off in a darker light. Still, I think I'd like to see that film.
I think it would be a particularly awesome turn if Henry goes back to work at the firm, starts rambling and screaming, and eventually has to be subdued by a taser after punching out his secretary. No matter where he goes, he could just break out in these insane bursts of total freakoutdom, squealing and slapping people. Like, Henry goes to the grocery store and then breaks out into a sprint and ends up molesting a police horse and throwing some baby strollers in a dumpster. That would be great. Harrison Ford would have probably passed on that version after reading the script, but I would definitely jump on the role.
Perhaps we could keep the film the exact same way, but just switch Annette Bening's character with the one she played in American Beauty. Always berating and screaming at Henry for doing something stupid. That would probably be pretty cruel. If you in turn put her character in this film into American Beauty, it would probably have made Kevin Spacey's life just forever average. Why would he ever want to rise up against Henry's wife. She's just so nice.
Speaking of character swaps, what if we put Henry in as Han Solo in the Star Wars movies. He'd be flying the Millenium Falcon along, just erratically and with no particular path. Eventually, Luke would probably get concerned and ask where the fuck he was going. But if he was anything like Bening's character in Regarding Henry, he'd feel bad and try to coach him along and offer an inspirational hand...
Eventually I changed the channel.
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