Did everyone watch the Rocky marathon on AMC?
I've been neglecting the blog, like my illegitimate son Juan. But don't worry, fresh new posts are coming. Here's one from a guest poster who refers to himself as SC.
Often times it seems people are accredited with astoundingly brilliant roles in playing a character of a sub intelligent level. Obvious examples are Tom Hanks as Forest Gump, Dustin Hoffman as Rain Main, and that big black dude from the Green Mile. But sometimes I question whether all of these accolades are warranted.
What if the actor or actress is simply an idiot and therefore just well casted, should that be called a brilliant performance. Can a person who has no brilliance within them deliver a brilliant performance, am I over using the term brilliant, perhaps. I think the most obvious examples of this phenomenon are in Rocky I & II. Sly Stallone plays a Philly Street Brawler with horrible grammar and an inability to "ya know like uh make ah coherence sentence er whateva."
While I'm a fan of the Rocky movies, and realize Stallone had intellectual input towards these movies, I can't help my frustration. I'm watching scenes and thinking, that poor director, who you know did this scene 15 times, while trying not to offend Stallone. Honestly, what can you do after the first encounter with Stallone when you say to him, "that was good, but let's not play him quite so dumb" to which he responds, "eh like uhh wadda ya mean dumb?"
Along the same lines, Rose Nylan former resident of St. Oloph, Betty Davis (screw you, like you never watched the Golden Girls) wasn't the smartest of ladies. While I have no definitive proof, other than those stupid pet awareness commercials she does, I don't really think she was "acting" in playing Rose Nylan. Perhaps the character wasn't even supposed to be a dolt, but in the way Davis delivered such crap, it ended up being funny.
The moral of the story is that everyone isn't conquering the role of Mork like Robin Williams, INCLUDING ROBIN WILLIAMS. Dammit have you seen that man just being Robin Williams?!? He had to try to be normal in order to play an alien. God that guy's weird and I don't think we should applaud him for being just that. Dustin Hoffman, great job, Robin Williams, stay away from my family.
-SC
Posted at 10:11 pm by srsquared
