I feel like Matt portrays the character of Mark differently, and I agree with his portrayal.... Mark is the loner, the outsider, the person looking in on the action... and Matt Caplan, yes when he wants to, portrays this dramatic side... but he gets all this crap about playing things for jokes... but Mark HAS to have this kind of goofy, funny side, because why else would Roger and Collins and everyone else keep him around? Mark is a funny character... Anthony does this in the movie perfectly... but I feel like because Anthony is so good, people think that Matt Caplan is just wrong and bad. Mark IS a horny twenty year old... and Matt Caplan decided to play that up, which I think is admirable, and different from the many Anthony Rapp imitators out there. sigh.....how is he bringing it out in Mark more than others? He does all the same moves as everyone else...how far can he stray? I know I keep asking that...but i'm seriously interested to know. Obviously, I'm aware that some people that take on a role are better or worse than others based on vocal or acting talent, but that aside, what does he do? If the only thing he is doing is bringing out one dimension of Mark more than others, than that may be a good thing...he's bringing something new and fresh to the character. But as I also said, when I saw Matt I thought he was a bit goofy. And now that you guys mention it, I remember him trying to make a joke out of something...but can't remember what it was. Maybe it's just that he's not the best actor.
The thing is, if his understudy (Colin?) is better at performing Mark than Matt is, then why don't they replace Matt! I mean why don't they realize that there is something with Matt. ---- Sorry for the 21 questions in this post, I'm just really interested in what you all think.
Generally, I just wanted to make a few comments about Mark. I think that Mark as a character has a lot of growing up to do in the story, I think he is learning how to life his life by learning from others...this is pretty evident, with him always filming people and whatnot. He's trying to figure out how to best live his life, and at times he can be immature and insecure, but he's also *trying* to grow up and be responsible. There's so much more to him, I know...I think I just really f'ing love Mark as a character because I can relate so much to him. From him loving film, to wanting to make an important piece of work, to not knowing how to become the person he wants to be....there's a lot that's special about Mark, even if he doesn't change that much throughout the story.
"I would rather take a flawed movie that has as much heart and passion and life and joy and energy and truth in it as this film does over any film that is completely perfectly presented and perfectly constructed but has none of that heart and life." -Anthony Rapp
Updated On: 11/30/05 at 03:47 PM
I met him at the stagedoor and I just gushed over how much I love his Collins, then just kind of smiled at Philip Dorian McAdoo who was actually on as Collins that night. Seeing him stuck as Mr. J when there's such a mediocre Collins on is just depressing.
