TERRIBLE Acting
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leonie — 17 years ago(August 28, 2008 12:00 AM)
patrick mcgoohan wins in this movie and is clearly the best thing about it.
everyone else blows horrendously. david cronenberg actually cast stephen lack because he had wonky eyes. no other reason!"It's better not to know so much about what things mean." David Lynch
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filterite — 17 years ago(August 29, 2008 11:24 AM)
Yeah the acting's pretty atrocious when it comes to Vale and the artist guy. The funny thing is, the guy who played the artist has been in quite a few Cronenberg movies. I think this was the worst performance of the lot. But you could get away with wooden acting in Cronenberg's early movies.
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Corthier — 17 years ago(November 15, 2008 05:46 PM)
Lack's "wooden" acting is off-putting until you arrive at Revok's explanation at the climax, at which point you must completely reassess this performance in line with its character's back story. Gee, he seems vacant, unformed, and even baby-like. Could there be a reason?
Imagine that you can't even remember your childhood and have no sense of yourself as a person. Wouldn't you be a little blank, as though you were "reading off of cue cards."
A gutsy move on Cronenberg's part, to trust his audience's intelligence to such an extent. -
konitzlee — 17 years ago(December 10, 2008 08:44 PM)
I don't know. This is weird. Maybe Lack was imposed on Cronnie by the producers. But still, when you have pretty good actors playing for you, and plenty of money, how could you allow such a bad actor like Lack to work for you?