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10 Great Jack Black Performances | Billy Glenn Norris 10 Great Jack Black Performances
Billy Glenn Norris
Mars Attacks!
A shaven-headed Black makes a memorable impression as the empty-headed, perpetually angry soldier brother of Lukas Haas' wimpy trailer park hero. He's only got a couple of scenes, but with his bullet hairdo, slow Southern drawl and memorable death scene (see below), Billy is the epitome of Burton's subversive view of the trigger-happy US military.

Best moment: Under attack by aliens, Billy attempts to fight, but is thwarted when his ammo clip falls out (a neat reference to his intro, when he's seen assembling his gun blindfolded). grabs the US flag and waves it in surrender, the ultimate bastardisation of the Stars'n'Stripes. Needless to say, vaporisation is on the agenda.

Does he sing? No, although his death scream sounds to us like a version of some of his Tenacious D scatting.

None more Black? Again, this is a restrained performance, more about the character than the persona of the actor. Or he's only on screen for about two minutes, we can't work out which.

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1 RE: wait..
Posted on Wednesday January 13, 2010, 18:12 by TheSpleen
L: shmoobaka how is there not mention of BioDome? IODOME! They sure caused some trouble inside that bubble! Read More

2 RE: 10 Great Jack Black Performances
Posted on Wednesday September 23, 2009, 10:13 by Hymers2k9
i am going to be the 1st to try and actually name 10 Jack Black films... 10.Anchorman 9.Nacho Libre 8.Be Kind Rewind 7.King Kong 6.Tenacious D The Pick Of Destiny 5.Shark Tale 4.Shallow Hal 3.Kung Fu Panda 2.Tropic Thunder 1.School Of Rock before anyone spots flaws i realise that he is only in anchorman for like 3 minutes and shark tale and kung fu panda are animations but they are still JB performances all over! Read More

3 wait..
Posted on Tuesday September 1, 2009, 19:15 by shmoobaka
how is there not mention of BioDome? Read More

4 RE: school of rock ftw
Posted on Wednesday June 24, 2009, 20:06 by Blue Ryan
Remember this is the guy who did school of rock. One of the finest comedy films of the decade. I enjoy his performances other than tropic thunder where he was pretty rubbish Read More

5 RE: Nacho Libre... one of my favourites
Posted on Tuesday June 23, 2009, 12:47 by BishopQuaker
I can't even think of 10 Jack Black films I've seen! I'll probably get shotdown for this but I thought School of Rock was a good film Read More

6 RE: Jared Hess
Posted on Tuesday June 23, 2009, 08:30 by dancjtodd
L: kurum "Although Nacho Libre isn't an entirely successful attempt to blend the innocent appeal of School Of Rock (Mike White wrote both movies) with the off-beat dynamics of Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess directed both)..." I thought Richard Linklater directed School of Rock? sp; Empire are saying Jared Hess directed both Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, not School of Rock & Napoleon Dynamite. Read More


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