The news said “He could make millions happy, but couldn’t make himself happy…”
Robin Williams was such a fixture of entertainment in my childhood that I feel like I knew him like a distant family member you see every once in a while.
Robin Williams was a fixture of my childhood. Since I was a kid, I’ve loved action adventure films, so JUMANJI, for me, is one of the best, most fun family-adventure movies out there. I remember when I would watch it I would wish and wish that I could have an adventure like that. To watch a film about a game that brings extraordinary things to life, it was like escapism within escapism. I remember watching this and feeling excited and happy. And that’s what his movies did for millions. JUMANJI was one of my earliest tastes of what films could do. They can make you dream and make you feel.
To this day, as a joke, I’ll say “I feel like playing Jumanji.” And so my thirst for adventure continues.
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