Post by rasalghul on Jan 2, 2006 17:24:05 GMT -5
I just wanted to say that because I think sometimes we may pay too much attention to the characters portrayal by the actors.
I say this since nobody except the executive producers know what the whole story is. As the actors are also completely ignorant of their characters' whole backstory, they cannot really react to the events as if they're Jack, Locke or Kate.
I don't say there's bad acting but I think that the director may sometimes lack information to tell the actors how to play a scene, because we/they still don't know who the characters really are.
My best exemple of character would be Locke. A lot of our interpretations/theories point to the fact that he knows more than he says. Of course, he's a complex character and most of the time, he seems to understand people (Boone, Walt) better than the average guy and he may have the looks, the face expressions of a man who knows. But the only facts we have about him is that he's more experienced because he's older than practically everyone.
And what about Kate, some people may have been disappointed by the fact that she seems to be a real, tough badass as she has been portrayed in the first season but when her real crime was revealed, it was almost as if the murder was some kind of self-defense by proxy !
As conclusion, some mysteries in Lost may come from the fact that the acting can be misleading !
I say this since nobody except the executive producers know what the whole story is. As the actors are also completely ignorant of their characters' whole backstory, they cannot really react to the events as if they're Jack, Locke or Kate.
I don't say there's bad acting but I think that the director may sometimes lack information to tell the actors how to play a scene, because we/they still don't know who the characters really are.
My best exemple of character would be Locke. A lot of our interpretations/theories point to the fact that he knows more than he says. Of course, he's a complex character and most of the time, he seems to understand people (Boone, Walt) better than the average guy and he may have the looks, the face expressions of a man who knows. But the only facts we have about him is that he's more experienced because he's older than practically everyone.
And what about Kate, some people may have been disappointed by the fact that she seems to be a real, tough badass as she has been portrayed in the first season but when her real crime was revealed, it was almost as if the murder was some kind of self-defense by proxy !
As conclusion, some mysteries in Lost may come from the fact that the acting can be misleading !
I never thought about it, but you are right in many cases. I've heard that the actors weren't given anything in the beginning, but I've also heard that the actors who play the tailies have been given some information.
