THE Jon Voight
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vcascio — 13 years ago(February 17, 2013 07:47 PM)
You people don't know what you are talking about.
The Orphic and malevolent being know as "Paul Sarone" is one of the most compelling and fascinating antagonist characters to appear on screen in the past 20 years.
Look deeper into events and plot of this masterpiece and you will see much dramatic & entertaining achievement. Metaphor & symbolism is the key to both writer and Voght's performance.
I'll give you a coupe of hints and the rest of analysis is your enjoyable undertaking. Remember Sarone was a ex-priest. WHY WOULD A PRIEST TURN INTO A SNAKE HUNTER ? He is completely lying when he tells the crew that the capture of an Anaconda would be worth "MILLIONS." He says it with a straight face and not one person calls him on it? Millions? Possibly a hundred thousand, but a million? It should be obvious at this point that this deep character is motivated by many things, but MONEY is not one of them. I could go on and on, pointing out interesting things about this evil but compelling man. (And many other of the characters are profound metaphors as well) But I will stop now.
Many clever students of film and people who think they have developed a critical eye for good acting & cinematic writing have wrongly dismissed this film.
One more thing. The SEQUEL (I think in 2004) was a piece of beep
From Rekoa Cascio in Hollywood, CA -
vestdennis — 12 years ago(January 29, 2014 06:32 AM)
I'll update my comments as I'm watching this now on IFC. I LOVE Voight in this movie- I just can't figure out why he took the job. His absolutely over-the-top performance makes the movie. Other than him & the snake the other cast are mere spectators.
As someone else noted, maybe he likes to take a role like this every now & then just for fun. -
koffeenkreame41-1 — 10 years ago(July 22, 2015 01:46 AM)
Like others on this thread, I quite liked Jon Voight as the villainous Serone and feel he was very stiff to be nominated for a Razzie.
Agreed, he was really good & menacing, I don't think his performance was Razzie worthy but then again, I said the same about The Rock in Doom and he was up for one for that role I believe. Again, which is odd because I thought he was quite good & believable as a sarge of that unit.
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