"Alison Page" wrote:
Claudia said -
Hm. I don't buy that at all. If that's what the actor says he had in mind, I'll accept that, but that's not what comes across on screen to me. To me, he's just in terror.
I didn't get it from the performance either. Though it would be quite a difficult thing to convey in the few seconds Vila is on shot during that part of 'Orbit'.
It would be impossible.
But I don't think it would be quite out of character.
If Vila thought he
couldn't possibly survive, so it was 'either we both die, or the other guy survives, but in any case I am finished' he might decide to do something heroic.
Who knows how anyone would react under those kind of extreme circumstances?
After all that is exactly what he did in 'Blake' - sacrifice himself in a very untypical brave act.
Total distortion of what actually happened. Arlen had them all at gunpoint, Vila overpowered her, then he was shot in the back by a guard who emerged from nowhere.
I think he was able to do it, because he thought
he really had no escape, so he had nothing left to lose (I'm talking about in 'Blake').
Wrong.
I imagine Vila was very aware of the chances of survival at
any time, and always tried to maximise them.
That's true.
But once those chances hit
zero, the calculus of cowardice no longer applied.
That last comment is very perceptive.
It happened once, so why
not twice?
In "City at the Edge of the World" it happened, but through love. In "Blake" he isn't sacrificing himself, he's taking a chance.
I agree that who he felt he was sacrificing himself *for* is an added complication, though. That might change everything.
Yes, that's true.
Jenny
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