BAD Acting??

Each to their own but I thought she did a great performance in this.

If you want to critique, at least learn to spell and use better grammar.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Audrey Hepburn made a career out of being Audrey Hepburn. She made a lot of one-note films for the first half of her career. It was a narrow range, but she did it well, sort of the way Fred Astaire made "Fred Astaire" movies very well, or Shirley Temple did a great job of being Shirley Temple. Hepburn was enormously popular with the public in her own day, and had a reputation for being one of the nicest people in Hollywood, as well.

If you think she isn't a good actress, you probably just don't care for the sort of movies she made. Roman Holiday and Sabrina are not my taste, but they are very good for what they are.

Wait Until Dark was a departure for her, and a big stretch. She worked hard, and I personally thought she did well. I think a lot of the cringeworthy moments in the film come from bad choices in making changes from the stage to screen scripts. The character as it was written for the stage was more in line with a grown-up version of some of the characters she played when she was younger; she agreed to do the picture before the final script was written. Also, I think it wasn't very well-directed. I think it should have had an American director. All the places in the film, Port Authority, Asbury Park, St. Luke's Place, are real, but I don't get a sense that everyone in the movie knows that. Anyway, I think that if the script had stayed closer to the stage script, and the director had had a lighter hand-- there are funny lines that don't come off-- her performance would have been much better.

Also, a note on the comic aspects of the play. I think a lot of people miss the fact that Alan Arkin's character is self-aware. He is being that thug that he is on purpose. I think who he really is probably is Roat, jr., a little Jewish guy whose parents suffocate him, and who has assumed this persona of what he thinks a badass crook is like. It isn't who he really is-- I mean, he really is a sociopath, but he wants to broadcast that fact, not hide it. That's the reason it's so over-the-top, and why pointing out that it's over the top isn't a fair criticism. I also wonder, a little, if maybe the director didn't quite even get what his own actor was doing.

It's funny, but Hepburn did well in more complex roles. She was undeniably fine in The Nun's Story, and pretty darn good in Two for the Road.

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