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Post by R. on Oct 26, 2020 2:55:13 GMT -5
In the review Lemony wrote of One last warning to those who try to stand in my way, he says that Esmé ‘cannot act’ I am quite frankly baffled by this. In TEE she managed to fool the Baudelaires into trusting her, and managed to trick an entire town as well as the Baudelaires into believing she was a police chief in TVV. I was fooled myself as a reader as well, and I imagine a lot of you were too. Also, why was Esmé so talented if she was taught by Count Olaf? Do you think Lemony was just being rude in his review or is something more sinister going on?
P.S I think Eleanora was quite right to fire Lemony, his behaviour being very unprofessional.
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Post by Dante on Oct 26, 2020 3:43:57 GMT -5
Well, we are permitted to believe that Esmé's acting skills have come on a long way since then, or perhaps that she was performing in a play which did not play to her strengths; but what tends to be important to her appearances is the element of surprise. Are Olaf's troupe members good actors because the Baudelaires never recognise them? Is Olaf a good actor because only the Baudelaires ever recognise him?
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Oct 26, 2020 4:14:30 GMT -5
I think it really is a matter of personal taste. Eleonora apparently really liked Esmé's performance, and felt so immersed in the play that she threw her wallet. (The adult people in the ASOUE universe are easily manipulated by artists who try to convince them to do stupid things ... This is one of the few similarities that exist between our universes). Esmé won at least one fan who would do anything for her.
Lemony was writing about how Beatrice was replaced by Esmé. Of course, he would make a bad review. In addition, evidently that play was a scheme to illegally enrich itself in substitution for a VFD play that aimed to transmit important information to volunteers. So Lemony's bad review was not "lack of professionalism". It was loyalty to the person he loved and the organization he believed in.
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