Subject: Re: James isn't that bad.
From: jra@equinox.unr.edu (john andersson)
Date: 1991-01-22, 17:22
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> > abreen@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Alex Breen) writes:
> > |> until now.  I have always liked the character of James.  I think people view
> > |> the acting as slow, dull, and boring.  This is the style of the character.
i think so too... you could probably ask him "may i kick you in the
groin, james?"  "uh, well - ok, as long as you like me"

> > From: daled@meaddata.com (Dale Drummond)
> > But, whoever plays him projects all the emotional range of a rock.  His
> > facial expression when he finds out Maddy is dead isn't much different 
> > than when Evelyn is seducing him.  His only competition is Lara Flynn Boyle,
> > who CAN act her way around a piece of granite, but barely.  (Check out her
> > reaction to the creamed corn disappearing and reappearing.  There is none.
> > She doesn't even look mildly surprised!) 

seems to me that this is how lynch does things and it is different...
it's what i like about him. some of his other characters who have been
"pieces of granite" as well come to mind; the repo-man guy (forgot
character name) in wild at heart, boy-friend of lula's mom - the guy
has voodoo-ugly-scum-puke-of-the-planet freaks "soul-raping" him before
they finally blow his head off... looks like he's watchin' pat
robertson or new kids on the block and bored to tears...

jefferey in blue velvet is completely out to lunch thru the whole film
(he probably plays with "my little pony" and "strawberry shortcake"
when we don't see him), sandy's the same way (look at jefferey's mom!).
dreamin' about "robin's coming to make everything happy/good/etc..."
seems that lynch is smashing one in the face with a rock that these
people are LAME! that's who they ARE. then at the other end of the
scale is frank booth who is "on the edge" playing "life" to an extreme...

'member jack nance in eraserhead, sheesh, that guy's biggest reaction
to something was just to open his eyes a bit wider (save for when
"baby" spits up cream of wheat - "oh, you ARE sick")

> > I think one flaw that DL has is casting based more on a "look" than talent.
> > Thus, TP has a range of excellent to poor acting.  (IMHO)
don't know if it's casting disability or if it is lynch character
"de-flating" so as to effectively portray people who are walking
around asleep? when james and donna did there in-the-diner and song
singing stuff with maddy, reminded me of scenes of jefferey/sandy
talking about how the world has evil people and robins flyin' around
makin' it better  :-) yay! whee! it IS nice! (wasn't it julee cruise
in BV church scene BTW?)