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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Willie & Maggie
« on: May 23, 2009, 06:31:44 PM »
good points all around...
the show can be very contrived.it often asks us to accept things just because the writers(or dan curtis)put something into the script whether it seems believable or not(and i use the term "believable" loosely when it comes to this thing).
however sometimes something that an actor instinctually brings to their performance lends believability to something that becomes greater than what is actually spelled out in the writing.
examples could certainly be joan bennett playing elizabeth as if she were victoria's mother.what joan brought to that lends the situation certainty to many fans even though it never actually gets spelled out in specifics within the scripts.
also of course grayson hall' s decision to play julia as in love with barnabas.she created that on her own before the writing began to imply it without her ever actually coming out and saying it in so many words.yet again fans take it as gospel.
certainly john karlen's tender take on willie's feelings for maggie bring the situation greater poignancy than what the scripts actually call for.
the show can be very contrived.it often asks us to accept things just because the writers(or dan curtis)put something into the script whether it seems believable or not(and i use the term "believable" loosely when it comes to this thing).
however sometimes something that an actor instinctually brings to their performance lends believability to something that becomes greater than what is actually spelled out in the writing.
examples could certainly be joan bennett playing elizabeth as if she were victoria's mother.what joan brought to that lends the situation certainty to many fans even though it never actually gets spelled out in specifics within the scripts.
also of course grayson hall' s decision to play julia as in love with barnabas.she created that on her own before the writing began to imply it without her ever actually coming out and saying it in so many words.yet again fans take it as gospel.
certainly john karlen's tender take on willie's feelings for maggie bring the situation greater poignancy than what the scripts actually call for.