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	dglassman@ wrote:
	I can't understand all the fuss about the alleged miscasting of Hopkins (and Miller as Hopkins' younger self), having read the book, I found Silk's secret just as strange on paper as on the screen, Hopkins in this role was no less disturbing than the Coleman Silk I tried to imagine while reading the novel. Roth's brilliant creativity and penetrating insight is faithfully preserved by the film makers, despite the admittedly questionable casting. My feeling is that the brilliant acting of Anthony Hopkins was well worth this stretch. I really cannot think of any other actor capable of giving as much depth to Coleman Silk - and certainly not one with the perfect ethnic profile. Hopkins was definitely an excellent, if not perfect, choice for this role. We are all big enough to get beyond the crutch of super realism - especially when it comes to fiction. I am truly disappointed with the critics' obsession with this truly minor problem. With regard to the screenplay, although there may have been other equally effective ways to render Roth's story to cinema, I don't think a better rendition of his extraordinary novel was possible. Chapeau to Robert Benton and Nicholas Meyer (director and writer respectively) on an excellent job. A great movie which when you leave the theatre has you desperately looking for a place to go with your friends to discuss what you just saw and what it all meant.. (9/10)
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