Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and independent filmmaker.
There always seemed to exist two sides to Robin Williams, at least when it came to the types of characters he played. There was the manic, zany, energetic version who could launch into an impersonation at a moment's notice, and the shy, sensitive introvert whose eyes betrayed a deep loneliness and pain. Although he would branch out from these two personas from time to time, Williams tended to stick to one or the other in his movie roles.
2 The Fisher King was directed by Terry Gilliam, a Monty Python alum who launched his solo directorial career with the eccentric Dark Ages comedy Jabberwocky. It was a change of pace for the filmmaker, who was known for creating wildly imaginative worlds in films like Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Yet contemporary New York City is rendered with as much creativity as the sci-fi and fantasy settings of his previous movies.
Yet as Parry makes attempts to rejoin society, his antics start to subside, and Williams shows the quieter side seen in Dead Poets Society and his Oscar-winning work in Good Will Hunting. When he's around Lydia, Parry is sweet, sensitive, and honest, willing to open himself up again for the first time since his wife was killed. It becomes clear that his high jinks aren't necessarily a function of his mental illness, but rather a means to avoid dealing with his trauma.
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