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Best actor in Ken Park...hint: It wasn't Claude...

posted 9 years ago by curtiscee
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Claude was a good actor--actually, several were regardless if one agrees with the quality or content of the source material. But I'd argue that the best actor was the brief non-top billed appearance by Claude's friend during the group pot-smoking scene. Their interplay was nicely-acted and entertaining as they exchanged conversational back and forth.

But it was Claude's friend who charismatically upstaged the other actors in this movie, even though he only appeared briefly in this one scene to share an emotional story about his comatose father. In his short time onscreen, he revealed perhaps the sole redeeming trait about deeply-failing parents, in that they're simply there. It felt so real and unscripted that I suspect even the most victimized and traumatized people watching it would consider other options beyond the final one the character Ken Park took.

[–] Emigs42 9 years ago

Just saw the movie today and that scene was awesome. You translated it into words perfectly.

[–] bama1111 9 years ago

I just finished watching it and I also thought it was the best scene in the movie. I thought it might be because the kid was the one character, of all the young ones in the film, who was able to look at parental relationships from a viewpoint the others didn't have. The one exception might have been Peaches because I don't recall her saying anything about her Mother, who was also dead.

Emperor: Tell me how he died.
Captain Algren: I will tell you...how he lived.

[–] haileybaron 8 years ago

I wouldn't call it acting.
He's a real person having improvised conversation and then he tells a real story that happened to him
All this seems so natural because it's not reciting dialog it's just being yourself.
Im sorry but that's not acting really

[–] OldSamVimes 8 years ago

The camera is on, it's acting.