The performance in your head is nothing - what actually took place is the actual performance. It’s not real - the director, the editor, the other actors, the final audience, cannot see what is inside your mind. They respond to what they see on screen or...
Read MoreSubscribe | @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....
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I had intended to write-up a review of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 's Creativity - The Psychology Of Discovery And Invention, but it contains so many compelling ideas that I wanted to look at them further, along with their possible implications for acting. So I am planning...
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The Respect Actor possesses the drive and the love to master their skills, to become an expert on acting. Consequently, They are individual creative artists with a rational sense of their self-worth, rather than supplicants sucking up to so-called authority figures. Consequently, They have the strength and confidence to...
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You are confronted by a seemingly impossible problem. Know this. Your decision to become an actor means you are remarkable. Few possess the necessary drive to make such a decision in the first place. Fewer still possess the self-insight to see that they need to do creative...
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Read MoreDavid Mamet's writings on acting, film and theatre are always hugely insightful, and, more crucially, very practical. I extrapolated some key phrases containing technique and philosophy...
Read MoreWe understand what happens to us in relation to what we want. The actor who commits the rest of his life to his work, the one who says "I'm never going to stop", reacts differently to the inevitable stresses and strains to the one who...
Read MoreHow can we refine our thinking about our work in such a way that it inspires us to take action? Afterall, our thinking needs to be in good order because what we think eventually becomes what we do. Make a list of people who you would...
Read MoreAre you afraid of what people will think? People will guess at what you're doing and they will guess wrongly, so you might as well do what you want anyway. Flip-side; you cannot know what other people are thinking, so don't worry about it. Do what you...
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