Quote from: SM on Mar 01, 2012, 07:52:41 PM
QuoteCompare this performance to even the actors, like I said, who were only on screen for a few minutes in 'Aliens', all meant to be from either Weyland-Yutani or bodies which they were clearly linked to.
You mean we should compare it to all those scenes of the marines pitching to a stadium full of people?
No, the characters I referred to in my earlier reply - the ones with speaking parts at Ripley's board of enquiry. Paul Maxwell's Van Leuwen came across as more believable, in my view. Obviously, Burke most definitely did, but I'm saying if we want to compare like with like, then there's an obvious example of someone with even less screen time than this gave. He wasn't performing for a stadium, but it was still for an audience, of sorts.
Up to an individual's preference, obviously. Just saying any would-be effect this footage was meant to have on me, as a potential customer, was fouled up by the false impression of the performance.
Quote from: Pn2501 on Mar 01, 2012, 08:19:11 PM
Go back and read all my replies to the cavlda quotes you referenced, then give proper counterpoints rather than your tenuous linking of Guys performance to James Mason, like that would be a problem anyway?
Firstly, I did read them. I happened to disagree with them.
Secondly, I was responding to a reply of someone who was convinced it's a channelling of John Hurt. I say, the verbal inflections and such are a lot closer to a James Mason impression - and it's very possible he was doing that, since he's an actor who was famous for portraying aristocratic commanding characters. Which seems to be what they were going for with this.
Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Mar 01, 2012, 11:02:09 PM
I believe that this kind of viral campaign is unprecedented, from the caliber of actor they've hired for the piece/s to its exectution.
I doubt it really cost them anything, aside from the special effects they green screened in.
Probably pulled him aside to do it on the very day he put his film performance in. Wouldn't have cost them extra.
It
is clever, as an idea, because it incorporates the TED phenomenon. I just don't feel the execution was what it could've been, that's all and am surprised it led to so much celebration and praise, when it seemed so average.