From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #74 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Wednesday, April 5 2006 Volume 06 : Number 074 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] OT: Acting methods [richan@aol.com] [chakram-refugees] OT: I love Narnia ["Xena Torres" ] Re: [chakram-refugees] OT: Acting methods [richan@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:08:43 -0400 From: richan@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] OT: Acting methods - -----Original Message----- From: Xena Torres <> Presentational acting? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentational_acting Bottom line: Presentational-- Constantin Stanislavsky. In other words, the "actions" come first; there is no "striving to feel" the condition of the character. Acting is simply doing, never feeling. Method--Lee Strasberg. Method is an acting technique in which actors try to replicate the emotional conditions under which the character operates in real life, in an effort to create a life-like, realistic performance. "The Method" requires an actor to draw on his or her own emotions, memories, and experiences to influence their portrayal of a character. Richan ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:47:29 -0500 From: "Xena Torres" Subject: [chakram-refugees] OT: I love Narnia I am watching "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" for the third time today (5th overall time I've seen it) as I begin the second commentary and I just had to express, again, how much I love this movie. Even on a THIRD viewing in ONE day, the emotional points are just as powerful, the battles just as engaging, the animated creatures just as real and magical. Just a shout out that if you haven't seen this movie yet, you really need to. Truly magical and amazing. FOR NARNIA AND FOR ASLAN! :) XT's review: http://www.bitchofrome.com/Pages/thelion.html Julie XT Ruffell Script Editor of AWAKENINGS and voice of the Witchblade AWAKENINGS OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.roachsrealm.com/awakenings XENA TORRES SITE: http://www.bitchofrome.com "The bitch is just getting started." - Pez AWAKENINGS ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:13:46 -0500 From: "Laconia" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] OT: Acting methods I've been thinking about this idea of "method" acting and how the actor really gets into the emotions of the character s/he is playing. I know that people who experience trauma sometimes develop post-traumatic stress syndrome, which is supposedly an actual change in the person's brain. From then on, the person's brain "resonates" when s/he thinks about the trauma or one similar to it. And it's as if they're reliving the original trauma. The reason for this is apparently that brains cannot distinguish what is really happening from what the person is just pretending/acting/visualizing is happening. If an athlete repeatedly visualizes a certain athletic act, like accurately hitting a tennis ball, that athlete's brain believes that the act really occurred, and the athlete hits the tennis ball better the next time s/he plays after the visualizations. So I've been speculating about method actors who really get into the emotions of, say, a rapist, a murder victim, a child molester, an insane person, etc. Do you think that some method actors eventually develop a kind of post-traumatic stress syndrome in regard to "traumatic" characters they play? ******************* From: (Snipped a bunch of good stuff...) > Method--Lee Strasberg. Method is an acting technique in which actors try > to replicate the emotional conditions under which the character operates > in real life, in an effort to create a life-like, realistic performance. > "The Method" requires an actor to draw on his or her own emotions, > memories, and experiences to influence their portrayal of a character. Richan ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:05:06 -0400 From: "Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Method Acting I don't know what the other "method" is called perhaps it is more of a technical method. I think in the method school you feel the emotion and then hopefully you will then convey that emotion to the audience. I think in the technical you convey the emotion first and hopefully the audience will feel the emotion too. Any way here is my "method acting" story as told more or less by Dustin Hoffman: In the film Marathon Man Dustin Hoffman acted opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. There is a scene where Hoffman's character is suppose to have been running all night and is exhausted so Hoffman stays up all night and runs so he will be exhausted. The next day Olivier is shocked by his appearance and asks if he is all right. Hoffman explains what he is has. Olivier looks at him askance and says: "My dear boy, wouldn't it be simpler to just act?" ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:12:40 -0400 From: richan@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] OT: Acting methods From: Laconia write: <> Aha! "Total Recall!" I've never thought of the this movie as an exemplar of post-traumatic stress syndrome before. Tourist takes programmed memory trip that stresses him into rejecting his normal identity as a spy preferring instead his secret identity. Or how about I "Altered States." A scientist takes a mind altering drug, immerses himself in a sensory deprivation tank, dreams being chased by lions on the Serengeti (that'll cause stress), and becomes that primate. Then there is Peter Parker's "Bunburying" crisis in Spiderman II. Can stress lock one into a secret identity? This is a great film because it is based on the play "The Importance of being Ernest" in which stress causes both the main characters to realize who they are just as Spiderman suffers stress and realizes who he is. The connect to Xena? Gabrielle stresses over her play in "The "Play's the Thing." Will she stay true to the original vision and herself or jazz it up a bit to increase it's popularity appeal and become someone else? Richan ========================================================= ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. 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