Between SVU (special victim) and CI, I've always preferred the latter. To be precise, it is GOREN who prefers Vincent to play. In the fifth season, there is an episode of GOREN and an episode of LOGAN. I really don't like the Detective LOGAN played by MR. BIG. The personal charm is too far from the omniscient GOREN.
It is said that "Criminal Minds" is good-looking, and GOREN is the genius who really understands the psychology of criminals to the extreme. The villain in the first episode of the newly released second season, his IQ is almost equal to that of GOREN, and his mental quality is rarely stable. In the end, he was just collapsed by a little trick of GOREN.
I love L&O:Criminal Intent so much, and I'm crazy about Goren. Turn to a post about this show:
Criminal Intent: Lost
Author : JUN (Valley of
the Villains) was accidentally knocked out by L&O:CI recently. Recalling that when this series first came out, I was disgusted by the fact that it was very different from the mothership series that I had been obsessed with for a long time. . Until when did you change your mind? It seems to be the episode when Nicole Wallace just showed up, she is the nemesis of the protagonist detective: he is Sherlock Holmes, she is Professor Moriarty, repeatedly giving him headaches and escaping his grasp. The two went head-to-head in the interrogation room. He guessed that her history of being raped by her father as a child led to her hatred of men, and she presented his mother's background in a mental hospital and his fear of his sanity. Wow!
Although there are countless detectives with baggage and weaknesses in TV movies, and although there are a lot of cops with eccentric personalities, Bobby Goren is not inferior in comparison. His selling point is: observing people, things, and clues is Sherlock Holmes' practical type, digging into criminals' heads to spy on their deep motives and weaknesses, and like a profiler, and his own words and deeds are a little bit neurotic, not A lot, just a little bit, but it always makes people a little worried that the iceberg hidden under the water will suddenly lose his mind in the next second and be locked in a mental hospital.
Vincent D'Onofrio used to be known for his outlandish villains, gaining 70 pounds(!) as a vicious soldier in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, and as an unrecognizable worm in Men in Black. Xingren, in The Cell, acted as a murderer in a dream. It is said that he took this series because he wanted to be close to home, so he didn't have to film outside for many years. It's also not normal to play a good lead role here. At first, I couldn't stand his weird behavior, which was one of the reasons why I stopped watching it. Later, when I learned about the character's family history of mental illness, I suddenly accepted it. Slowly, his strange shape gradually grew on me. I can't take my eyes off till now.
I have always liked the image with a bit more flesh (of course not too fat), D'Onofrio belongs to that type, Liu Qingyun is also, so is the hot dog. But I haven't been a fan of anyone for a long time, so after a while, I realized that it was actually Rene Balcer, the show's executive producer and director, that attracted me. Balcer is a Canadian, from Montreal, and a journalist. He started as a screenwriter in the L&O mothership series, and was promoted to executive producer in charge of the script, and then split up to take charge of the CI show. For each episode, he first wrote the plot (synopsis), handed it over to the screenwriter to write the teleplay, and finally he changed the lines. He has fully mastered the vertical development of the characters since the first season, so Bobby Goren's life history, behavioral characteristics, and psychological structure are all in his hands. Even the character's behavior and speech are the same as he and D'Onofrio. made.
At the end of the day, I'm more interested and curious about Balcer than D'Onofrio. Looking through google, I found that although he is ordinary in appearance, he speaks witty. In a Q&A:
Q: 60 Minutes once reported on the L&O series that your writers were the oldest on average in the Hollywood Five.
A: No, we were all shocked when we saw this show, and immediately fired all the screenwriters, and now all the scriptwriters are fetuses.
In the past, I liked the original Law and Order series because of its realism, the complexity of the plot, the believable details, and the fast pace. L&O: CI is self-contained, although it is also about crime and police detectives, but the plot is particularly devious, not like "ripped from the headline", but like "stolen from a dream". I have to watch several episodes before I can relive it. First, I found that each story contains the complex psychological motives of criminals, and they are exposed layer by layer. As for the crime and the means of investigating the case, it is secondary; after two seasons Only then did I realize that almost every story is related to the psychological conflict within the family, between parents and children, siblings, husband and wife, all dysfunctional toxic family relationships push these people down the road of crime. Criminals are also often neurotic, but not the gnashing silent lamb type, but pathetic. For example, an episode about a mother who killed her own child was based on the real case of Andrea Yates, but it was about how a husband mentally controlled and abused his wife, making her desperate and killing her child. Detectives often feel emotionally sympathetic to criminals, even though they have to catch them, unlike mothership's usual prosecution stance. CI has also carried forward the fast-paced features of the original series. Sometimes the key twists and turns are passed over in one stroke, which makes me, the audience, puzzled. I need to watch it a second time to understand.
What does this indicate? What I'm fascinated by are all things that are gods, gods' authors, gods' characters?
The other resident characters in CI are very normal and rational, which makes Detective Goren very nervous. I like all four of them. At the beginning of this season, a new group of partners Chris Noth and Annabella Sciorra were added, and they took turns with the D'Onofrio/Erbe group. It is said that D'Onofrio needs a rest, and the first five seasons have been too hard. It's not known what conspiracy plans Rene Balcer has for this new couple. Noth was an actor in Mothership's earliest detective partner, and he is still remembered by many fans of the show. My favorites are the first pair of prosecutors, Michael Moriarty's Ben Stone and black Richard Brooks. But MM is old and alcoholic now, and the days are gone.
The audience's impression of CI is funny, either hate it or like it, for the same reason, it's all because of the character of Goren, which is either unbearable or fascinating. Due to the strong psychological element of the script, it gives the guest actors in each episode a lot of leeway for their performances, and there are often brilliant strokes. But winning an award is probably out of the question, it's not something that caters to most people's tastes.
Episode after episode, season after season, Detective Goren's history and inner world are revealed bit by bit like a squeeze of toothpaste. When he was seven, his mother began to have hallucinations, and his father abandoned them because he didn't want to take the trouble of taking care of them. Mother was in a nursing home at some point, Bobby went to join the army, was stationed in Germany, became a police officer after being discharged from the army, moved to Major Case after being skilled at Narcotics, and now visits his mother every week. etc. Only the murderous Nicole Wallace (a fantastic performance by Olivia D'Abo) is his soul mate, and only the two of them know each other's details and scars. The cunning Rene Balcer reveals the background of the characters with a hammer and a rake. Of course, this is not a new trick. Fox Mulder also has a lot of baggage in X-Files, and it is also revealed slowly in the plot, and his His work is also deeply related to his history. But I'm still very afraid, very worried, you know, a show may be cancelled at any time, he may be removed or he may quit, Vincent D'Onofrio may resign tomorrow, then am I hanging there, Never knowing his entire history, will he go mad, will he fall in love with that murderer?
What makes people anxious is that Rene Balcer often inserts a line without leaving a trace, explaining that Goren's mother used to be a librarian, and his father died recently, and I have to watch each episode carefully to figure it out, and I often have to open it. If you want to close captioning, or you will miss a few words. And he doesn't seem to care whether the audience notices these details, or the consistent psychological conflicts and themes in the series, or Goren's tendency to sympathize with female criminals because he grew up with his mother, these things are hidden too deep, dig and dig, I don't know how deep it is, and I don't know how much he has prepared. I am even more suspicious that the life story he arranged for Goren is a big conspiracy in his mind. No one knows all the details. If he leaves, or the series is cancelled It will disappear forever, and it will kill me. TNND, watching TV and being a detective takes a lot of brains, not only figuring out the plot of each episode, but also piecing together the past and psychology of the characters, maybe this is the reason why I am obsessed with CI.
No, no, I'm obsessed with CI because I'm a bit of a neurotic.
Today, I found another speech by Rene Balcer. It turns out that someone in his family has schizophrenia. No wonder he is so delved into the theme of mental illness that eight cows can't pull it off. No wonder he said he was Bobby Goren.
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