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In Reply to: Open Range -- I'm all thumbs, up! posted by clarkjohnsen on August 25, 2003 at 10:45:52:

I agree witcha, except about Benning. She did absolutely zero with that character. I don't know if it's her acting or Costner's directing but the performance was flat as Kansas and the character, potentionally very interesting (an over-the-eligibility single woman living with her brother in a dinky town) was completely undeveloped.
Don't tell me it was the limitation of the script! A good actor develops (imagines) his/her character's backstory and uses it to illuminate the performance of the script, no matter how limited.
I could watch Robert Duvall say his ABCs and not get bored!

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Re: Benning. Perhaps you confuse... - clarkjohnsen 09:02:55 08/28/03 (0)
...low affect with low effect?
She was a woman who had never known love, and you expect her to be out there, emotionally?
Her reticence served the character admirably, I think.
And as I said, she *looked* just right. Anyway she didn't look like, say, Julia Roberts.
clark

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