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Minute Detail - IMO The Worst Line Delivery in the Movie
littledarlin:
i hate the line where alma jr says "will you go to the church picnic with us this weekend? please? daaaaaddyyyyyyyy"
i don't know why, it makes me cringe though. it seems dubbed and out of place.
EnnisDelMar:
The one line that I don't think worked well is "F*ck you" by one of those biker guys...just the way he says it I dunno..
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: vkm91941 on April 05, 2006, 05:17:01 am ---Let me get my hard hat out before I share this: I really did not like the way Linda Cardellini as Cassie delivers the line...Ennis, girls don't fall in love with fun!...just a little to OTT for me, I felt a quieter more intense deliver would have been more effective. ::) JMO
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Yeah, I can see where that's a little over the top. Never thought of it that way, but it's true. I actually thought she did a very good job in the scene with Kate Mara - you know, the "you don't say much, but you do get your point across" one. The way she said, "Not ready to settle down, or I'm just not the right one for him?" or something to that effect is very believable - like she knows she may not like the answer she's going to hear. And then when Alma, Jr., says "You're good enough, I guess" (and by the way, that's when I KNEW that Jr. knows all about her Dad and Jack), she completely misunderstands her meaning, of course, and takes it as a compliment - you can see the relief when she delivers the next line. Very well-done. The more I think of it, it wasn't that Linda/Cassie wasn't capable of subtlety - I think she was always OTT with Ennis - it seemed as if she practically barked at him all the time - because she felt that was the only way to get through to him. You know, like, "If he won't talk to me, at least I'll MAKE him listen."
And I have to say I kind of liked the way Randy Quaid delivered that line. To me, he was being OTT as part of the character, if that makes any sense. It was as if Aguirre was thinking, "Here *I* am (and I've seen everything)" - you know, being melodramatic on purpose.
The only line reading that rings false to me in the whole thing, really, is Bobby's. It's not horrible, but he's no Haley Joel Osment. Ya nodamean, Vern?
henrypie:
I find the whole Uncle Harold scene unnerving (of course, because we're feeling Jack's discomfort) -- but I think the staginess of it is appropriate: the text is about Uncle Harold; the subtext is "Tell you what, I seen you fellas stemmin the rose." So it makes sense that the dialogue feels awkward and false.
littleguitar:
Of course I am referring to Bobby Soprano (sorry, Twist) and his "I'm gonna be eatin' this food for da next two weeks!". (Bada bing!)
ROFLMFAO!! Oh man, thank you for my first laugh of the morning!!
As for the Cassie line, Vic I completley agree. That line always bugged me. It is way too overdramatic. It is only saved by that amazing look on Ennis's face after she runs out the door. That look is heartbreaking and one of my favorite Heath moments. He saved that scene for me. To tell you the truth, while it's mostly the delivery of that line I don't like, I could also just do without that line in the film ::) I think it's unbelievable and is really the only time I felt the scriptwriters weren't spot on.
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