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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
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Subject: Re: Silverado - Wasting Talent
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 07:44:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 07:44:55 1985
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In article <630@sfmag.UUCP> howard@sfmag.UUCP (H.M.Moskovitz) writes:
> I saw Silverado last night, and was generally pleased with the movie.
> However, there was one sore point about the casting. They cast John
> Cleese of Monty Pthon and Fawlty Towers fame as a SHERRIF! and Jeff
> Goldblum of Big Chill fame as a gambler who is a shnook bad-guy.
> 
> The problem here is that neither man uses his immense talent for humor
> in the film at all. Cleese plays a very straight role as an Englishman
> working as a sherrif in a wild-west town, and takes himself verrry
> seriously.  A more humorous performance by
> these gentlemen would have vastly improved the flow of the film.
> 
> 					Howard Moskovitz

******************************** SLIGHT SPOILER *****************************

Had the producer/director turned Cleese loose, Silverado would have
become a farce... and as a farce it would have fallen short of Blazing
Saddles.  I don't think the script would have been amenable to an
all-out comedic treatment anyway.  Didn't you find Cleese funny?  I
thought the underplayed humor was PERFECT for this film.  "What's all
this then" and "As you might have guessed I'm not from these parts" are
GREAT lines!
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