The Sherrif

[lostinthewoods]

This is a cool line the sherrif says to Jeff that I always liked "you need to learn how to stay outta trouble boy, it makes you anxious....defensive..."

[lostinthewoods]

I think that guy was perfectly cast for this movie, he's on of those characters that can't feel more right saying the lines or looking the part, and I think Jeffrey, as the sherrif calls him, was bouncing back his characters appropriate behavior towards him in such a way that was perfect, like when he is sitting in the chair and he's getting sh#t from the sherrif and stands up like right in his face for a second then walks off and the sherrif also bounces back his characters acting by ruggedly grabbing his hat off the chair in anger. The two were reacting in a way that made me believe they really didn't like each other and there was a past between them,which is also given to the viewers earlier on in the movie, it's a dynamic that functions well and delivered credit to the book of shadows.

[earthboundfan1986]

Oct 21, 2018 21:17:24 GMT -6 lostinthewoods said:

I think that guy was perfectly cast for this movie, he's on of those characters that can't feel more right saying the lines or looking the part, and I think Jeffrey, as the sherrif calls him, was bouncing back his characters appropriate behavior towards him in such a way that was perfect, like when he is sitting in the chair and he's getting sh#t from the sherrif and stands up like right in his face for a second then walks off and the sherrif also bounces back his characters acting by ruggedly grabbing his hat off the chair in anger. The two were reacting in a way that made me believe they really didn't like each other and there was a past between them,which is also given to the viewers earlier on in the movie, it's a dynamic that functions well and delivered credit to the book of shadows.

I really liked his character too

[lilymae325]

I love all the scenes with the Sheriff. One of my favorite parts of this movie has always been watching the dynamic between Cravens and Jeff and digging into Jeff's history. Also the Sheriff just cracks me up because in many of the interrogation scenes he is lurking in the background glaring at the either Jeff or Kim. Like his idea of playing 'good cop/bad cop' with the FBI is to glare holes into people's faces.

[The Missing Bear]

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I've always had a tough time with BW2's personification of Cravens. The documentaries made Cravens out to be a seemingly by-the-book, mild-mannered, and respectably uniformed sheriff, whilst the second movie characterised him as a frontiersman cowboy. I honestly feel the second movie would have been stronger had it had more down-to-earth and realistic characterisations of its characters, especially one who already existed in the franchise lore. The "real" Cravens feels like a completely different character altogether from the tobacco-spittin' (I know he doesn't, but he seems like he would), Willie Nelson-looking outlaw, spewing obscenities in the sequel:



And I guess, possibly that was part of Berlinger's intention, as part of his satire and "don't trust the media" perspective. Therefore, he creates an entirely fictional and ridiculous version of the sheriff instead to deliberately undo the character people may know from the 'real' documentaries. If memory serves, I do believe Shadow of the Blair Witch even makes a joke of something like "I'm looking forward to seeing who will play Sheriff Cravens" or words to that effect, but that mostly felt like Ben Rock doing his best to salvage one of his characters from an utterly savaged studio-product sequel rather it even having been an intentional characterisation made in agreement between the two film-makers.