Criminal Shades Idiocy- Miami
Posted By baiyangcity on November 27, 2010
There was a time when David Caruso could act. As well as an award-winning turn in NYPD Blue, you can’t help being impressed by his other film supporting credits such as King of New York. Admittedly, he usually played cops, or military types, or half Irish military cops, but then with a shock of ginger hair and a mug that wouldn’t look out of place over a pint of Murphys in a pub in Kinsale, he was hardly going to be in contention with likes of Brad Pitt. Just what went through his actor’s brain when he took on CSI Miami? I understand the fact that Miami gets a lot sun and therefore wearing a good set of sunglasses is more-or-less mandatory, but good grief! On or off David, make up your damn mind! On, off, on, off, over and over again with every single episode, and if that wasn’t bad enough he compounds it with that hand-on-hip stance that makes him look like his arthritis is playing up.
This is supposed to be a man that studied Method acting, reportedly utilising it in Hudson Hawk which seems a bit like using a pneumatic drill to crack a nut. His character had no tongue, so David made the astounding leap of not talking, something many wish he’d try in CSI Miami. I’ll never understand how an experienced actor can forget just about everything they have learned and leans on a pair of aviator sunglasses to base their entire performance. Why stop at sunglasses? How about another piece of clothing to keep fiddling with? Suppose it was his trousers. I’d imagine forensic work would grind to a halt in Miami and he’d be in psychotherapy.
Some actors have got the whole wearing shades thing nailed. Both Mr White and Mr Orange wearing their ray ban sunglasses in Reservoir Dogs. Arnie in Terminator. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry, cleaning up San Francisco. None of these iconic characters felt the particular need to keep taking their glasses on and off as if they were playing a peeping “now-you-see-me” game with their toddler. In acting, “prop” is a contraction of “property”, not a crutch that underpins a character performance.
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