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Tragic Irony In Betty Blue | The Great Acting Blog

03.08.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 21 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [gallery type="square" ids="175664392,175664391,175664393,175664463"] An analysis of the literal action of the protagonist, Zorg, reveals to us the tragic irony in Betty Blue. In Jean-Jaques Beineix's Betty Blue, Zorg [played by Jean-Hugues Anglade], is a laidback handyman employed to take care of a bunch beach huts....

The Great Acting Blog: “7 Acting Questions”

As rehearsals for my new feature film, Distracted, progress, here are the seven acting questions we've been asking of the script. After all, if the actor does not understand the script correctly, then he cannot act it correctly - this questioning is the process for...

Analysing A Script – Understanding The Literal Action Of The Character | The Great Acting Blog

08.02.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175659900" align="aligncenter" width="1036"] Peter Finch as Paul, Melina Mercouri as Maria & Romy Schneider as Claire in 10:30 PM Summer[/caption] "10:30 PM Summer" is a 1966 film which centres on Maria, an alchoholic, who goes on a Spanish road trip with her husband Paul, their...

Literal Action Script Analysis | The Great Acting Blog

02.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 17 Comments

"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about the solution." - Albert Einstein The point is that we cannot determine a solution until we have correctly defined the problem. And that is why...

The Great Acting Blog: “Let Your Work Speak For You”

18.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Beware the flamboyant chest beater, all cocky bravado and big mouth. These people behave this way simply to masque their fears, to conceal the fact that they don't know what they're doing. They fake confidence by displaying bullishness but the fact is they are insecure...

The Great Acting Blog: “Knowing What You’re Doing Means True Creativity”

22.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Fear of having your work examined, not being able to cope with questions, panicking when given a note are all signs of personal worthlessness. It is brought about when the actor* doesn't know what he is doing, and is terrified of being found out. The remedy...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Understanding Prevents Under-Performance”

22.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

The better we understand our work, the more fun we can have with it. The number of expressive ideas available to us increases, and ultimately we become more excited about presenting our work to the world. That’s why basic script analysis is so important, it...

The Great Acting Blog: “How The Director Sets The Actor Free”

26.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

To follow on from yesterday's post, I wanted to expand a little bit on the notion of giving the actor space to create. As a general rule, I believe the primary task of the director is to assist the actors in expressing the writer's intentions*, and...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Is Going On Here?”

10.04.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Being an actor is about being a student of human behaviour. Actors spend a great deal of their lives analysing scripts, or, to put it another way, they spend a great deal of their lives trying to work-out just what the hell is going on....

Noirish Project Blog: “Working The Scene”

17.03.2013 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] We had a wonderfully intense and productive rehearsal today. What I'm talking about here is script analysis, which means sitting around with the script and thrashing out what we think the characters are literally doing in the scene, reducing the scene down to...

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