Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwatf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!trwatf!root From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Silverado - Wasting Talent Message-ID: <1047@trwatf.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 07:44:55 EDT Article-I.D.: trwatf.1047 Posted: Tue Jul 16 07:44:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 04:29:19 EDT References: <630@sfmag.UUCP> Reply-To: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) Distribution: net Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA. Lines: 29 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! -- UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!trwatf!root - Lord Frith ARPA: trwatf!root@SEISMO "There is not a single McDonald's in Garrett County"