Post by domenicaflor on Jun 14, 2004 8:17:30 GMT -5
I don't know whether the Australian TV Guide week starts on 6/12, 13, or 14, but in any case this week, Vincent D'Onofrio is featured on the cover of the TV Guide in Australia. Inside is an article on popular detective shows. Courtesy of a poster on Vincentdonofriofans.com here is the relevant text to LOCI. I think it underscores the fact that a ton of thought goes into the production process for LOCI, and also that viewers have to take certain "leaps of faith" to stay in tune with Goren.
One objection: "semi-stoned" is not how I see Goren at all. Perhaps the writer might have been toking when he wrote that one, LOL.
Enjoy,
D.
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Here is the text from this Australian TV Guide article that relates to LOCI:
"Law And Order is not relationship-based and you rarely see into their lives," Mott says. "You get to know the characters through the case, through the work they do, rather than through their personal lives.
These programs are driven more by procedure than characters, although, saying that, there's some very identifiable characters within each show."
One such character is Detective Bobby Goren, the seemingly sloppy, semi-stoned lead of Law And Order: Criminal Intent.
Goren has become a household name both here and in the US, thanks to actor Vincent D'Onofrio's approach.
D'Onofrio thanks series creator Dick Wolf for allowing him the freedom to develop Goren, and says it has helped the show achieve and maintain its successful position.
"Dick came to me with the idea he was going to let me create a quirky, odd character that I could have a lot of freedom with," he says. "This program works because we spend a lot of time making sure we get it right. We keep the acting at a level as good as we can get it, and we are continually working on it. It's exhausting, but that's our goal: to keep the bar really high."
While D'Onofrio acknowledges the real-life edge in SVU, Law And Order and other crime dramas, he says he enjoys the more fanciful side of his own character.
"Our show, Goren and Eames (Kathryn Erbe), is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes and Watson relationship. I'm much more clever than anyone could be. You have to take that leap to enjoy the show. It's so fictional and has such a different feel to the other programs."
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One objection: "semi-stoned" is not how I see Goren at all. Perhaps the writer might have been toking when he wrote that one, LOL.
Enjoy,
D.
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Here is the text from this Australian TV Guide article that relates to LOCI:
"Law And Order is not relationship-based and you rarely see into their lives," Mott says. "You get to know the characters through the case, through the work they do, rather than through their personal lives.
These programs are driven more by procedure than characters, although, saying that, there's some very identifiable characters within each show."
One such character is Detective Bobby Goren, the seemingly sloppy, semi-stoned lead of Law And Order: Criminal Intent.
Goren has become a household name both here and in the US, thanks to actor Vincent D'Onofrio's approach.
D'Onofrio thanks series creator Dick Wolf for allowing him the freedom to develop Goren, and says it has helped the show achieve and maintain its successful position.
"Dick came to me with the idea he was going to let me create a quirky, odd character that I could have a lot of freedom with," he says. "This program works because we spend a lot of time making sure we get it right. We keep the acting at a level as good as we can get it, and we are continually working on it. It's exhausting, but that's our goal: to keep the bar really high."
While D'Onofrio acknowledges the real-life edge in SVU, Law And Order and other crime dramas, he says he enjoys the more fanciful side of his own character.
"Our show, Goren and Eames (Kathryn Erbe), is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes and Watson relationship. I'm much more clever than anyone could be. You have to take that leap to enjoy the show. It's so fictional and has such a different feel to the other programs."
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