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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 14, 2014 16:56:12 GMT
There is at least one professional actor on this forum, and who knows how many others who yearn to tread the boards. Here are some useful tips for those wishing to hone their craft. (Personally, I'd like to see these pictures replace our current emoticons.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 22:01:16 GMT
That is absolutely hilarious, Bixa. I have a similar book at home that teaches you how to "act" Shakespeare monologues with photos.
What I mostly learned from this is that, to express emotion correctly, you need to be a slightly overweight man.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 17, 2014 14:40:19 GMT
Hmmm. Having trouble envisioning that correctly, Lizzy. Despite your lack of a Y chromosome and of extra avoirdupois, I think it's imperative that we see a video of your acting out the monologues according to your book's directions.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 18:06:26 GMT
Back at that time, probably the only female 'acting' positions they would have displayed would have been swooning/collapsing, being frightened/shocked, acting "coy" and a position of "mysterious silence."
Playwrights in those days seem to have known very little about women. Probably a lot of women would say that things have not changed all that much.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 22:11:35 GMT
Ah, Kerouac, you assume "playwright" is male. There are lots of female playwrights today writing amazing things. Even in the olden days they were around, although scarce. Aphra Behn, for example.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 10:39:37 GMT
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Post by questa on Feb 1, 2017 12:42:48 GMT
For Mossie Paul Anka visited Sydney in about 1957. He was just 15 or 16 years old and had the worldwide hit "Diana". He was interviewed on radio. Discussing how he has to keep up with school studies on tour, he asked the interviewer what level/grade he would be in if he were at school in Australia. They worked out year 3 of high school going on his age. At this point Paul said "Well. I dedicate this song, Diana, to all the school kids in year 3 high school this year"
That included me, What a buzz there was in class. I know he probably did it wherever he went, but it is fun to know I had a major hit dedicated to me and a few thousand others.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 14:33:26 GMT
What a hoot!!!!
They do seem a tad stiff and formal. Staged also comes to mind.
I remember some years ago reading an interview with Sir Laurence Olivier. When posed with the question on his take regarding Method acting, Olivier responded with a recollection of working on the film Marathon Man. Dustin Hoffman co-starred. One day on the set, Hoffman showed up 3 days in a row disheveled, sleep deprived and run down. Hoffman asked Olivier if he could give him some advice as he was dissatisfied with his performance. Olivier advised him by saying, "I say Dustin, why don't you just try acting?
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Post by questa on Feb 1, 2017 22:16:18 GMT
From Spencer Tracy...."Show up on time, know your lines and don't bump into the furniture"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 22:34:37 GMT
Questa, that's basically it. I'd add, "Don't have an affair with the director, or anyone in the cast or on the crew".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 21:25:42 GMT
Oh, during the heat of a romance, some actor/actress combos have done some pretty good work, but they need to know to stop the moment it cools off.
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Post by questa on Feb 2, 2017 23:21:41 GMT
Not thinking of the Burton / Taylor drama that bankrupted "Cleopatra" are you?
Someday, someone should make a movie about "the Making of the Movie 'Cleopatra'"
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2017 23:01:03 GMT
I googled to see if it was during Cleopatra that an extra accidentally caught on fire while the camera was rolling & the incident was left in the final cut as it looked so real. I googled & couldn't find it, but I think it was some epic w/Tyrone Power that was filmed in Madrid in the 50s. Anyway, I found this fun bit of gossip to tide you over, Questa, until they do make the making of ... www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/15/how-we-made-cleopatra
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Post by questa on Feb 5, 2017 1:18:32 GMT
they were getting desperate...it's a wonder they didn't call for retakes. Taylor did come close to dying. Her severe pneumonia was not responding to antibiotics. She was never the same again.
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