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That was not acting. The actors in the ER had not been told that Blake was going to die. The actor who played Radar got the 'telegram' right before he walked into the room to read it. It was all their immediate reaction/instincts.
I think maybe I had heard that before this thread and forgot about it. It was a very sad, but very well acted, scene.
Sorry, when someone makes a comment like that I know they don't understand acting.
I understood what the poster meant and I suspect everyone else reading it did as well. She meant it was dropped on the actors literally at the last minute, not scripted, not discussed, just BAM, go with it.
Yea....a well remembered scene. I always wondered though, about the plane being shot down over the Sea of Japan. The North Koreans didn't run any "feet wet" air ops that I know of. US carrier air power pretty much ruled out there, and the North grounded their air assets pretty early on, after the two Mig defections. Ah well, guess I'm being to technical. However, my Dad was on a carrier in the Korean war for tbe whole bit, and his information on tbe subject made me wonder.
I think maybe I had heard that before this thread and forgot about it. It was a very sad, but very well acted, scene.
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Originally Posted by Joe the Photog
I understood what the poster meant and I suspect everyone else reading it did as well. She meant it was dropped on the actors literally at the last minute, not scripted, not discussed, just BAM, go with it.
As a followup, I fact-checked the story... which I should have done before commenting... and found that it is not what really happened. And the truth of what happened further illuminates my point about the actor's craft...
What you saw on the show was scripted, and it was not the only take... it was actually the second take. The first was ruined by a technical problem. The second was marred by someone accidentally dropping a surgical instrument, which made an unplanned clattering noise, which the director felt was serendipitously perfect and so he left it in.
The crumb of truth behind the myth is that the script for the scene was not given to the actors until just before the scene was shot, and the plot twist was kept from all the actors but Alan Alda until the pages were handed out. And the real reason for doing that had more to do with keeping this surprise ending a secret, trying to preserve the surprise for the audience, than anything else. The following gives a good account of the real story...
Mrs Landingham on The West Wing! That was so shocking and sad. Usually when someone dies in a car crash on TV, we're given at least some sort of ominous build-up to it -- scenes of them driving at night, preferably in the rain, something. But with her, it was just her telling the President she bought a new car, and then Charlie finding out she died. It almost made the whole thing worse.
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