How does he continue to fool such a large part of the population? Are they mostly idiots?
Here, Hoffman, coughs, and strains his voice to a completely superficial, unbelievable, phony and completely ineffective performance of one of the great roles in American theater. Where does he get his balls to do this while the memory of March, Cobb, and others are still fresh in our ears?
What a disgrace.
I think you're getting a little carried away. He plays it in a very different way, and he certainly hams up the superficial elements of it, but I thought he got underneath it beautifully too.
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Ok. Go play Willy Loman better then Dustin Hoffman, not telling me you can showing me you can, then you can bash Dustin Hiffman all you like.
shareI think that Hoffman's acting was fine, but even he admitted that he was miscast in the part. He's good in the scenes where Willy is completely pathetic and broken, not quite as convincing in the scenes where Willy is full of false pride and bravado.
For one thing, Willy was written to be a large, heavy man - they had to rewrite some lines in the script to account for the fact that Hoffman was the very opposite (Willy is called a "shrimp" rather than a "walrus").