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re: SOM's Rolf: His Behavior at the End

Posted by:	JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 12:45 pm EST 12/06/13
In reply to:	re: SOM's Rolf: His Behavior at the End - Michael_Portantiere 12:18 pm EST 12/06/13

I don't think Rolf's slap-in-the-face reaction would have worked in that instance, but we would have to then see Rolf make the decision that he DOES want to be one of them. It would pass the acting assignment difficulty to the actor playing Rolf, who would have to deliver a much more complex moment without a single line to help him. If that could have happened, I think that would have been better. But it's possible that Lehman designed the entire scene around that slap-in-face moment because it's very dramatic and the underscoring that is cued on Rolf's line just forces the viewer to attention in a way that a subtler, more truthful version may not have.
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