No. 40 Cecil B Demented (2000) 8 of 100
Some more early Michael Shannon now, with this offering seeing him far down the credits and listed as ‘Mike Shannon’. It is a reasonably sized role although he doesn’t get a lot to do and is mainly seen as part of a wider gang. The film was written and directed by John Waters and is basically a satirical swipe at the film industry and cinema goers in general. Stephen Dorff plays the titular film director who has yet to make a full feature. He’s against everything that makes up the film industry these days from crappy sequels to films made about video games. You can tell that Cecil is really just Waters who is using the platform to vent. Cecil has a cult like group of film lovers and students and among their number is Shannon's ‘Petie’ who is first seen as a chauffeur and later as a delivery driver complete with a brown uniform. Petie is gay and looking for love. All of the gang have the names of famous directors or other film crew tattooed on their person, with Shann...