They asked how it felt to be comic relief on a show with such paragons of machismo and he said it was just playing to type "I'd love to be an action hero like Jensen and Jared someday but, you know, I don't have it in me, it's not what people see when they look at me"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
"I mean I could physically do all the things they do, pick up a gun and threaten someone with it, or go through the stunt choreography for a fistfight, but you all wouldn't buy it It's really in the eyes, you know? I'd punch a guy out and be like 'Whoa, did I do that?'"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
"It takes a special kind of actor to be an action hero, you gotta really punch a guy out and *mean* it, you know?" The thing is I'd recently done a physical acting class and I totally got what he meant -- this is a classic technical acting thing, the hero vs. the clown
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
To be the hero, you see, is to be self-contained and complete It's the pose and the affect that Greek sculptors sought to achieve as an ideal The body is centered and balanced, and the gaze is straight ahead and unyielding
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
The hero, in his full flower of heroism, knows who he is and what he's here to do and doesn't need anyone else's input He is whole The clown is the opposite of that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
The clown is *off* balance, his body is pulled forward, his acting is all down not with his core but his face His face is pushed out, searching, hungry, desperate His gaze is unsteady, it jumps and darts and seeks He *needs something from you*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
The clown, by his nature, is the one who breaks the fourth wall -- like in the literal narrative sense, that's why the comic relief guy in the movie is the one who makes the meta jokes The clown is aware of the audience, the clown *needs* them won't leave them alone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
That's what makes a clown a clown, that's what makes him pitiful and ridiculous, that's what we mean when we metaphorically call a real person a "clown" -- they're not sincere, they aren't acting from their true convictions, they're doing it for the *attention*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
When we enjoy watching a clown we're enjoying that feeling of superiority -- someone capering and japing to coax laughs from us and us dispensing them generously like a monarch throwing coins A clown is reassuring as he is irritating, because that's how it feels to be needed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
Just as a hero is intimidating and arouses envy and jealousy even as he commands admiration -- it's at once a relief and yet an insult to *not* be needed
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Anyway that's what Rob Benedict means about why he can't punch someone and be taken seriously -- he can't stop that impulse to mug at the camera like "Hey, so did I do a good job? You liked me punching that guy, right? Did it work? Is he knocked out?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
And that's not just the character of Chuck Shurley THAT'S WHO GOD IS ON THIS SHOW God is not the hero, only mortals are heroes, only mortals CAN be heroes God himself is a fucking clown The ULTIMATE clown
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
Thomas Aquinas tried to address the paradox of God's "sufficiency", that God is perfect and therefore completely satisfied with his own existence and doesn't need anything, and therefore somehow created the universe as a purely superfluous act SPN just throws that out
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