jeffrey wright will fuck you up

while watching broken flowers last night i had a bit of a revelation: jeffrey wright is an incredibly brave and badass performer; bold and succesful—think about his roles of 2005, specifically the united states attorney bennett holiday in syriana and the odd but affable neighbor winston in bf.
for starters, go back and watch the opening 30 minutes or so of bf; they are ridiculously entertaining. a lot of people have been calling it deadpan, but, to me, the scenes are surprising, frenetic; in each scene there's almost an oneupsmanship of the comedic tension. winston's planning of the trip becomes progressively more and more compulsive while don's vehement refusals become more and more comic. this charade between the two is top notch.
wright will also fuck you up with his turn in syriana. he may first come across as a decent man, but when the film ends he's the ultimate cutthroat. go see these movies.