Acting 09

Acting • Differences between stage and screen acting • Physicality • Real time vs. screen time • Photogenic features

 

 

Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet

Acting • Actors in Formalist Films vs. Realistic Films

 

Sin City

 

The Departed

Acting • Film Actors • • • •

 

Marilyn Monroe Clint Eastwood Julia Roberts Tom Cruise

 

Acting • Shooting out of sequence - does not have to sustain a performance • Looping or ADR • Stunt & Body Doubles • Little or no rehearsal  

 

Flashdance

Acting • Personality Star • Actor Star • Icons

 

 

Pretty Woman

Acting • Personality Star

 

 

Acting • Actor Star

Kathy Bates  

 

Acting • Icons

 

 

Acting • Styles of Acting • External mastery

 

 

Laurence Olivier

Acting • Styles of Acting • Internal reality

Marlon Brando

 

 

Acting • Style of the film • What kind of camera is used? • How is it photographed? • What is it about?

 

 

Moulin Rouge, The Others, Dogville & Bewitched

Acting • Casting • Typecasting

Kal Penn in Superman Returns and 24  

 

Acting • Casting • Recognizable stars

The Namesake  

Erin Brockovich

 

Acting • Casting • Recognizable stars

 

 

Monster’s Ball

Acting • Casting • Amateurs

 

 

Acting • What kind of actors? • How are they treated by the director? • How much editing? Are they allowed to speak without a lot of cuts? • Does the film highlight one actor or the ensemble? • Does the star change from film to film or are they always symbolizing one thing? • What is the cultural connection of the star’s iconography to the movie? • What is the style of acting? Realistic or stylized? • Why was the actor cast?  

 

Acting • On the Waterfront • 1954 • Dir. Elia Kazan • Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint • Oscars: Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Art Direction and Cinematography • Filmed in 36 days in Hoboken • Parallels with HUAC Hearings where Kazan and Cobb   testified