Comments on: Faint of Heart

By: remindmagger

remindmagger — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:48:23 +0000

If Chase directed his lead actor into the role of a conflicted family man who overate and overindulged and overreached and was over-the-top in his fury–he bears the weight of that direction watching that leading man crumble under the burden of it. Artists are too easily let of the hook for the creative violence they wield against loved ones and their fellows in the name of art, which is “only play.” Picasso may have been sublimely gifted – and deserved the license he took – yet his cruelty was unforgivable. Just the opinion of one who carries his own burden of sins in the name of creative license.

By: aliciaashcroft

aliciaashcroft — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:13:19 +0000

On another level, he spoke about how necessary it was for Tony Soprano to be overweight, that there was a certain ‘feeling’ he had that he connected to that character in the weight he carried. There must have been many factors at work there

By: remindmagger

remindmagger — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:05:53 +0000

I’d wonder if there was a border between acting as a place for anger to go and the place where anger is manufactured for a role: Does it ossify there, become some mineral deposit of rage you can’t shake? Who knows. But as a leading screen bully of the age, how can you not pay a price? Like it or not, David Chase has got to carry the cross.

By: aliciaashcroft

aliciaashcroft — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:54:46 +0000

Mmm, ‘the mask doesn’t fully come loose” thanks for that. I thought afterwards about his interview with Lipton, that ‘when he was young he was angry, and that acting gave his anger a place to go’–but then does it come back full circle of feeling anger naturally, and finding ways to create anger so it can all go back to that same place? That sounds exhausting.

By: remindmagger

remindmagger — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:59:35 +0000

We hear more often about actresses suffering the yoke of the roles they have played (I think of Rita Hayworth saying once, “they go to bed with Gilda, they wake up with me”), but with cinema becoming so notoriously violent, bloodied actors like Gandolfini can’t help but have a strained reality coming back from those badlands. The mask doesn’t fully come loose.

By: aliciaashcroft

aliciaashcroft — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:44:21 +0000

I know right? Because I am so interested in the characters and story lines, but couldn’t hack the violence. I think this show will be revisited by many more now x

By: Janet

Janet — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:23:08 +0000

I have long hankered for The Sopranos Lite: all the drama, less violence. But I may give it another try.