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Despite the script??€™s flaws, the cinematography often effectively produces suspense where the plot is lacking. Typical yet effective camera angles as well as vivid colors and blurred effects bring the night terrors that the young boy experiences to life and creates picturesque moments that fall short of redeeming the film...
...Sandvoss’s hands, the character’s lack of eloquence, part deliberate and part a function of the script??€™s weak points, becomes transformed into stumbling sweetness. And despite choppy pacing, awkwardly campy dialogue and a soundtrack that imposes emotional cues with all the subtlety of a tank, there’s plainly something there: genuine chemistry between Sandvoss and Ramsey, some sense that when they finally crumple in each other’s arms, it’s all for something much better than Hollywood-style inevitability...
...contrast, Goodkin’s Adrian was stiff and at times ridiculous in the obviousness of his effort. The clipped British accent and lack of sensitivity to the script??€™s humor resulted in a forced and unconvincing performance. Adrian’s downfall was a result of consistent overacting although the few lines delivered simply and spontaneously gave a brief glimpse of the possibility...
...Kaufman’s 2002 meta masterpiece Adaptation, though, the resemblance can’t be denied. Here, in a sunlit conference room on the second floor of the Boston Ritz-Carlton, is living evidence that Cage was nearly perfect in his on-screen portrayal of that self-referential script??€™s author. Kaufman has the same quietly intense air as his film double, leans over in the same way to burst out with a self-deprecating jab or an enthusiastic riff...
Reviewing Lorenzaccio’s acting is difficult, because Musset’s characters have been elided into each other in the script??€™s adaptation by Paul Schmidt (who also pulled translation duties). In other words, the show is deliberately (and rightly, from a thematic point of view) presented with a staging that blurs the lines spoken by the show’s large cast...