Arnold Wesker is the Ventriloquist. A mob boss who has to use a puppet based on the old movie Scarface starring James Cagney and the actual gangster Al Capone. He is meek and quiet with no backbone and uses the puppet to manifest his masculine side. In other words, he has dissociative identity disorder. One of the better elements of this character (or characters) is the fact that some believe the puppet is sentient and that Wesker actually works for him. I thought a good update for him would be to remove the small and functioning tommy gun because those don't really exist. I also used the Brian DePalma Scarface which is a remake of the original movie, so the puppet is modeled after Tony Montana, instead of the puppet having a gun, you can see that the gun is actually in the puppets head, and sticks out of its mouth when its time to shoot. Playing the role of Wesker would be John Lithgow for several reasons. First, he's one of the best actors of all time. Second, his role as the Trinity Killer on Dexter was one of the best things to ever be put on television, and this character shares more than a few similarities to the Ventriloquist. Thirdly, John Lithgow looks exactly like Arnold Wesker.
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