Thanasis Veggos has passed on.
If you don’t know him, he was the man who single-handedly defeated the Nazis, had a meaningful conversation with Harvey Keitel and the snow, was Greece’s answer to 007 and made the biggest, brightest and loudest displays of love–see video below–for a woman he had just met and fell in love with. All the while, Veggos, eternally bald and infinitely bolder, laughed and laughed and laughed.
In my fantasy movie I have him playing alongside serial killers Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson on a mad killer rampage in a run-away bus. The killer-duo picking up Thanasis at a deserted bus stop who through his wisdom, patience and kindness ‘takes the devil out of them’… While I also imagine him as the hyperkinetic, crazier and chubbier twin to the graduate; breaking through the glass, carrying Elaine Robinson in his arms and riding-off on his mini-bike.
In his movies, he cured machines with candy, jumped, run, drove and flew on a trajectory like a comet and burst out as one of his fireworks. His roles were the simple working man– going crazy on occasion. Equal among equals.
Bye, bye Θ.Β., όβερ!
Marina Yerali says,
Well said, remarkably pointed out.
on 04 May 2011 / 12:53 PM