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The Great Acting Blog: “The Actor’s Performance Is A Gift”
If you are the recipient of another's generosity, then you should be grateful. Too many mistake generosity for stupidity, and try to take more and more, as much as they can get in fact. In consequence, the generosity recedes as the giver senses, quite rightly,...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Follow Your Heart Not What You Think People Want”
"What the public criticise in you, cultivate. It is you." - Jean Cocteau The problem with striving to please others, is that it creates a tendency to erase that which makes each actor interesting, namely his individuality, or, put another way, his art. When trying to win...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Expect Problems, Difficulties, Complications And Obstacles”
Don't feel hard done by when an unexpected problem spits itself at you. Don't be bitter when weeks of meticulous planning gets wiped out by an unforeseen difficulty. Don't despair when your perfectionism is defaced by a new complication. Don't think you are being distracted when a silly obstacle presents itself. Problems, difficulties,...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “There Is No Security”
I was piqued recently when in an interview, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch offered the following...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Why Actors Fail To Speak About Their Work With Confidence”
Many actors find it difficult to talk about their careers. There is often this sense of pressure that if you're not famous or not working on something famous then you don't count. A lot of actors too, feel within themselves that their careers should be further...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Do What You Want To Do”
In Italian cinema during the 1950s, film actors' voices were dubbed with those of theatre actors. There was nothing wrong with the way they spoke, they were dubbed because film acting at that time was not considered to be respectable, and film actors were...
Read MoreNoirish Project Blog: “What Is Neorealism?”
http://vimeo.com/68514760 We consider Noirish Project to be a work of neorealism. We define that as holding the length of the shot longer than is required, so that the viewer begins to perceive more than just the literal plot. The video essay about quite brilliantly explores the nature...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Let The Negative Drown Out The Excellent”
Whenever we go after a difficult goal, there will inevitably be periods of great stress - if there wasn't then the goal wouldn't be difficult. By the same token however, in order to accomplish the goal there must be great moments where we excel ourselves. The tendency...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Compassionate Actor – Ralph Richardson In The Fallen Idol”
In Carol Reed's 1948 film, The Fallen Idol, Ralph Richardson plays Baines, a butler charged with taking care of the French ambassador's 10 year old son. Richardson is trapped in an unhappy marriage while he carries on an illicit affair with an employee from the French embassy,...
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