Other people noticed him, smart, influential movie people like Sidney Lumet, who put Gandolfini in several films. Roger Ebert was another early admirer. In his pan of a risible 1996 diversion, “The Juror,” Ebert, after breezing past its stars, Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin, admiringly singled out Gandolfini and his line readings. “If the movie had been pitched at the level of sophistication and complexity that his character represents,” Ebert wrote, “it would have been a lot better.” Such is the fate of the great character actors, who, role after role, are called on to add shading — a line reading, a swaggering gait, a jaw that leads, quivers, retreats — to lesser pictures. From the late 1980s to the late 1990s, that’s precisely what Gandolfini did until Mr. Chase arrived with his game changer.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:56:40 +0000
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