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Jeanne Moreau In Mademoiselle – Ironic Heroine

16.06.2025 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Tony Richardson's Mademoiselle centres on Jeanne Moreau’s refined school mistress, tasked with educating the rural children of local villagers. They are mostly simple, farming folk, ill-equipped to perceive that Moreau's austere, disciplined appearance masks a complicated and possibly catastrophic personality. Outwardly she is the prim...

Tragic Irony In Betty Blue | The Great Acting Blog

03.08.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 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....

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...

Essential Action – What Is It And Why Is It Important For The Scene?

09.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Once we've answered the question; what is literally happening in the scene?, the next step is to determine what the essential action of the scene is, the action we are actually going to do in the scene. Note that the literal action in the scene, is...

Literal Action Script Analysis | The Great Acting Blog

02.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 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...