The Blakecentric Wag the Dog

Screen Time: (1)- just a few pivotal moments. Sigh.
Woundage: (1)- he's not around long enough for anything truly heinous to happen to him.

Aesthetics: (6)- I like the hair and the suit. What can I say?

I finally got a chance to see this movie over Spring Break. I whined at my best friend until he agreed to accompany me to Harvard Square so that I could watch it. There are some really freaky people who work in the Harvard Square Sony Theatre, and I am saying this as I sit here with purple and blue hair and a cartilage piercing. But that is beside the point. I had wanted to see Wag the Dog since it came out, even before I knew that Geoff was in it. Geoff was a very nice added bonus, though if you blink you will miss him. His onscreen time is actually even shorter than it was in Apollo 13.

Basically, the Blake content of this film happens about five minutes before the end. Dustin "I buy all my underwear at K-Mart" Hoffman and Robert "You talkin' to me?" DeNiro are in a hotel room watching television and he is on the television as some sort of media/political consultant. Now I have to point something out here. Dustin Hoffman plays a top Hollywood producer- one of the gods of the media. Robert DeNiro plays the guy who has the entire American political structure wrapped around his little finger. And who do they watch on television? Geoffrey Blake. I think that pretty much demonstrates who is really important here.

The main thing that disturbed me about this movie is that Geoff is credited in the end with the name "Geffrey Blake." I mean, exactly how hard is it to spell "Geoffrey" anyway? Please. Get a clue, credits people. I don't remember being this upset by a misspelling in credits since the Denis/Dennis Lawson Star Wars conspiracy. Also, Geoff's character DOES have a name. I think it's David something. You see it for about three seconds onscreen. The credits people should really have looked into this. But they got sloppy.

He's wearing a suit and his hair is quite long- much longer than in Contact, though it's the same shade. He looks great. I hope we can look forward to more of the same in "Lost and Found" if it does, indeed, exist and will ever play anywhere.