Sean Bean is an excellent and under used actor, of that John, myself and most of you lot out there are of agreement. Of late he’s been utilised as nothing but a prop baddie, there to prop the story and the main actor up, and that’s a waste and a half. However his latest two films have him playing a family man, and from Coming Soon he talks of the latest movie Silent Hill:
“It’s about this place called Silent Hill, and our daughter is kind of disturbed about it. She keeps mentioning it, and she’s trying to get out of the house and go there, so my wife decides that it might be a good idea to take her there to confront her fears. She gets involved with a very murky and dangerous world, very creepy, which is all in different time levels, as well. I’m in the real world and I’m trying to find them, but we’re on different planes, so it’s quite interesting, because I can hear her, but I can’t see her. The way he shoots it is just constant fog and cobwebs around the Silent Hill world, while the real world is more normal.”
Oddly, he also plays the father and husband in a British thriller called The Dark with Maria Bello, which he said was also quite disturbing and ghostly. “It’s quite funny that I’m playing a concerned husband searching for my daughter twice in a year.” Maybe these two movies will finally allow Bean to break away from his typecasting as the bad guy.
I’d argue there, but perhaps that’s because I’m British, I’d agree he’s well known for the Lord of the Rings role, but not so for Treasure Hunt or whatever it was called, moreso for the Sharpe’s TV movies, Ronin or Bravo Two Zero. Anyway, he’s not always been a bad guy as these movie choices attest to, and perhaps that’s a UK\US thing.
Thoughts on Bean or Silent Hill? I don’t think this really gives us much new on the story, other than hinting that it’s going to be very spooky and take a lot of the game feel with it. It’s good though that Bean is returning to good character roles rather than baddies.
