>If you think that the actors shut up and do what the
>directors say all the time

I don't think that.

>I wonder if a better actor might not speak out more if her
>role was so clearly crappy, and influence things a bit.

Maybe, maybe not. The role of Mary wasn't the only crappy one in the film, and if the more experienced ones in the cast tried to improve their characters and went to FFC with their input, I don't think it helped because as I said earlier Sofia wasn't the only one who turned in a bad performance in a bad role.

>I hear you guys, but I saw Godfather III again
>like a year or so ago, and Sofia's performance was
>embarrassingly bad. And especially so amidst other actors that
>usually know what they're doing. Even if I didn't know that it
>was the director's daughter, I would've assumed it, or thought
>that it was the producer's girlfriend or something. Yeah she
>was working from a bad script, but in a couple scenes it
>seriously looked like she was reading straight from cue cards,
>without any voice inflection. Shit was painful.

Don't get me wrong, I think Sofia turned in a The Room level stinker. But I just think that people tend to single her out because she's FFC's daughter which in turn gets some people to overlook the awful script, roles, and other performances. The script / dialogue is the worst thing about the film, but that isn't mentioned often, Sofia's performance is.