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Started off okay, but...

posted 12 years ago by scaredfamous
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Even the introduction of Francois, the film was going fine... Somewhere along the line it turned into complete *beep* Why would you make Cera out to be a completely unreasonable character? Why would you introduce drugs to the movie? I WOULD say "There are so many questions..." but that would be giving the movie more credit than is due. A half hearted attempt from Cera trying to break into another genre/role, yet it still falls flat, and ends up being a "Superbad" for people 3 years older than their target audience.

And I actually like Michael Cera. *beep*.

[–] Andrew_S_Hatton 12 years ago

Surely ultimately any particular actor is only an adjunct to a Play or Movie.

Oh sure, every dramatised story needs at last one actor to communicate the author's ideas but what is most important is what the author has to say, unless, as is common - and contradicting my opening sentence - the production - has nothing to 'say' but is just an entertainment - a diversion - in which case the performance maybe more important than the 'story'.

My take on "Youth in Revolt" is that the story or perhaps concept of the story is most important - fortunately the film makers have employed a group of actors who communicate much meaning, not having read the book, I cannot say if it is the exact meaning of what was intended by the author, but I thought it was overall just fine - it had several points to be made and it made them in an interesting way, that kept my attention and was sufficiently engaging for me to explore the opinions of others about the production.