“The very heart of the show”
What is? Who is? Well, here’s one answer for you from Lost-Media:
Executive producer Carlton Cuse added this, with all the finality he could muster: “The character of John Locke is just the very heart of the show.”
This quote comes from an excellent article on John Locke and his importance to the show. As fans, we’ve been wondering what is going on with Locke, what his role is supposed to be on the show. This portion responds to those questions:
As the creators dreamed up Locke, Lindelof couldn’t help but think of the Charles Atlas comic book ads he used to see when he was a child: the scrawny kid on the beach who gets sand kicked in his face by a bully, then starts weightlifting and whacks the bully in the face when he returns.
“I think that’s basically who John Locke is,” Lindelof said. “We keep showing you stories about him making bad decisions and being abused and conned and suckered, all because he wants to be loved. Now, he’s on the island, he’s not preoccupied with needing to be loved anymore. He just wants to know his place in the world, which I think is something Terry is also experiencing as a human being.”
O’Quinn acknowledges that his fans’ concerns that Locke was being emasculated troubled him because he felt he had never before had the chance to play a “person of strength and clarity, but with a lot of dimension.”
The entire article is definitely worth reading, so check it out here.
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