Sullen, irritated, agitated, angry, angry, dyspeptic, belligerent, irritated. These are just a few words you can use when describing Harrison Fordstyle of play when it’s at its best. He’s had a hell of a career looking like he’s constantly in a state where his gears are being ground.
For his new comedy-drama stream on Apple TV+. Decreasein which he starred opposite Jason Segelyou could aptly use any of these to characterize his mood as Dr. Phil Rhodes, owner of a private psychiatric practice staffed by bumbling therapists like Siegel’s Jimmy Laird, and the benevolent but curious Gaby (Jessica Williams). Of course, as a character who has to deal with the likes of these two on a daily basis, you’ll be drawn to Pepto-Bismol, but as long as it’s Ford, we don’t want to go any other way. Some of the actor’s greatest moments in the film captured Ford in a far from stellar mood. I think about it; in his roles as Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Dr. Richard Kimball, and Jack Ryan, the most memorable moments with these characters are when Ford is one of the words used in the first sentence of this article.
Why can Han Solo be anything but cranky?
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Aside from the moments he spends with his girlfriend, Princess Leia, when is Han Solo less than annoyed or on the verge of pissed off? He is a rogue smuggler who has to trade with the likes of Greedo and Jabba the Hutt, only to have the Millennium Falcon move at top speed to complete the Kessel path in less than 12 parsecs. And then, of course, Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams). When he doesn’t sell out his old poker buddy Darth Vader to end up locked in carbonite, he plays as Khan’s top favorite, Princess. It’s not a buddy, and Ford always put on the perfect face to let us know he’s not happy about it. And don’t even tell us what it takes to keep from snapping at a young Luke Skywalker from time to time. To be honest, if not for Chewbacca, Khan probably would have been treated himself. Any one of these characters will bring out the worst in a person, and we’re here to celebrate that Ford can portray this guy well.
Indiana Jones has no time for the Nazis!
You’re a brilliant archaeologist who has to teach a bunch of douchey undergrads, and on your one and only vacation you spend time in mined tarantula-infested caves with giant boulders ready to flatten you like a pancake. And let’s say you get out of it, then you have a fucking Nazi, like Belloc (Paul Freeman), just sit and wait for the very rare and valuable fruits of your labor to be taken, and send a group of deadly African tribesmen to kill you. Or another Nazi, like Major Arnold Toth (Ronald Lacy) is waiting in the wings to pick up the medallion for which you have traveled all the way to the Nepalese mountains. We would all feel bad if this happened to us.
Even his own father, Henry Jones Sr.Sean Connery) drives it to the bone, and it’s one of the best scenes in the entire franchise. As they are tied back to back to be burned alive, Indy’s annoyance turns into an outright apoplexy of life and death. Surely you knew that your father’s presence in your search for the Holy Grail would not bring anything good. Henry is not built for the field, we all know that, but it doesn’t matter. And you want to know why? Because angry Harrison Ford is a home run titan of the big screen, a stud with money in the bank, that’s why.
It was a man with one arm!
Calm down, Dr. Richard Kimball! If you think about it, no, because the enraged Dr. Kimball in Fugitive this is the one we paid 20 bucks for and another 85 dollars for popcorn and a drink! This is what we want to go to the movies for right here - to see Harrison Ford angry for two full hours as he fights to clear his name from the murder of his own wife Helen (Sela Ward). From respectable doctor to chain gang member and fugitive from justice jumping out of sewer tunnels to avoid being captured by someone like US Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), how can such a downward spiral not annoy you six days a week and twice on Sunday? It was a man with one arm, for Pete’s sake, and your good friend and former colleague, Dr. Charles Nicholls (Jeroen Crabbe) paid him for it. That’s why Kimball is angry, and he has every right to be. In fact, we encourage it. The angrier Ford gets, the more we want to give him an Oscar nomination, no, an Oscar statue.
Is this IRA soldierSean Bean) are simply threatening a CIA analyst turned field agent to Jack Ryan’s family in Patriot Games? Ideal. We can’t think of anything that would piss Harrison off more than this. And when you tried to run away from his wife Kathy (Ann Archer) and precious little girl Sally (Thora Burch) off the road, sending them to the fence and an inch from their lives? Here is the look we love. Harrison Ford with pursed lips and bulging forehead veins. Now the movie can officially start because up until this point, a calm, cool, and collected Ford just didn’t suit us. We fidgeted in our seats because of how normal and undistorted his face looked. Everyone relax. Harrison Ford is on a rampage and we love every minute of it.
Source: Collider
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