In Reply to: What you probably don't realize... posted by clarkjohnsen on October 18, 2006 at 09:18:22:
It's not the extravagance of the character - I'm all for it - that turned me off to JN's performance it was, well, his performance. I really felt like I was watching him play the Joker again and, at times, he truly sounded like George Carlin doing a comedy routine.It wasn't that he shot people (or how, or where) or that he was into young girls or was flamboyant, etc. It was that, in his portrayal of THAT kind of person, he was playing him in the same way he's done other things and that - for me - made him into a caricature.
"Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
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Follow Ups
- Yes... here's why... - sjb 09:28:47 10/18/06 (3)
- Can you feature a way to play an already over-the-top, oversize real person that differs much from Jack's? nt - clarkjohnsen 09:32:04 10/19/06 (2)
- Sure... - sjb 11:09:13 10/19/06 (1)
- In real life (apparently) Whitey had the implacable cold eyes of a killer... - clarkjohnsen 11:32:07 10/19/06 (0)