Indymisanthrope
Well-Known Member
Yeah, 100% agreed, but I'm also compelled by these other two points on the other side:That is the crux of every one of these public apologies of what I'll call the lower tier of accused Hollywood *predators* and their scripted public apologies which have been screened by a publicist, agent, and so on and so on and so forth. It's hard to believe someone has "healed" when their schtick, their meal ticket, and their private indiscretions are so intertwined.
*(I'm not sure predator is the right word but I'm at a lack of how to sum up all the character traits and situations that cause these people to act the way they do)
1. It's part of a comedy act in this specific case, so of course the whole thing has been written, polished, staged, rehearsed, and performed several times. Many times what we, the general public, are seeing is the final product, where the emotional aspect has to be called up and performed despite the performer having already worked through some of those emotions privately, and a long time ago. That performance is sometimes for our benefit, so that we can move on, as much as it is for the performer's.
2. Externalizing our internal lives necessarily involves some degree of artifice. Trying to tell someone how you've changed, without having the means to show them, requires a performer to lean on the strength of the performance to convey more than the words can alone if they want to have any hope of convincing the people who are listening.
I'm not going to mount a full-throated defense of the guy or anything, but it's an interesting discussion, I think. As much as I felt like he did a decent job, a whole other part of me was seeing the schematics of everything that had been orchestrated to make me feel like he'd done a decent job.