Is it all just an ILLUSION?
Tue, 27 May 2003, 03:30 pmWalter Plinge16 posts in thread
Is it all just an ILLUSION?
Tue, 27 May 2003, 03:30 pmI have been studying acting on and off for about 3 years and have come across a number of interpretations of teachers and actors about the whole process. It is all just an illusion, if it looks real its good enough ..... after all its a "craft".
While other actors and teachers believed that it is an art and it is possible to live the part and become the character. The actor is the creator under the guidence of the director.
Are we all just a bunch of crafty illusionists or are we cabable of creating and living the part?
To me Art has more meaning than craft, and I have seen the attitudes in fellow actors, directors and teachers the difference of those who "fake" it convincingly and those who mean it with all their heart.
It has to have meaning otherwise whats the point of doing it? After all the purpose of the actor ultimately is to move the audience?
We can't do that by faking it?
If we do who does that make us, to cheat the audience like that.
While other actors and teachers believed that it is an art and it is possible to live the part and become the character. The actor is the creator under the guidence of the director.
Are we all just a bunch of crafty illusionists or are we cabable of creating and living the part?
To me Art has more meaning than craft, and I have seen the attitudes in fellow actors, directors and teachers the difference of those who "fake" it convincingly and those who mean it with all their heart.
It has to have meaning otherwise whats the point of doing it? After all the purpose of the actor ultimately is to move the audience?
We can't do that by faking it?
If we do who does that make us, to cheat the audience like that.
DRIVE
Tue, 3 June 2003, 10:05 pmWalter Plinge
> You lose yourself.
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> The character isn't aware of the audience, they are private
> moments........... in public, you just heighten the
> performance so it can be noticed without embelishing it.
Jeff wrote
Sorry, I see condradiction here. If the actor is not aware of the audience then in effect they exclude them from the performance by definition. They will not be able to heighten the perormance because that would then be un-natural and faking it, wouldn't it?
I mean you heighten the tension, that is what you are feeding from and you respond naturally to it so it can't be fake or unatural. If your internal drive is bigger than your external actions it isn't FAKE.
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> The character isn't aware of the audience, they are private
> moments........... in public, you just heighten the
> performance so it can be noticed without embelishing it.
Jeff wrote
Sorry, I see condradiction here. If the actor is not aware of the audience then in effect they exclude them from the performance by definition. They will not be able to heighten the perormance because that would then be un-natural and faking it, wouldn't it?
I mean you heighten the tension, that is what you are feeding from and you respond naturally to it so it can't be fake or unatural. If your internal drive is bigger than your external actions it isn't FAKE.
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