Posted by sean at threshold7n.jpmorgan.com on May 22, 2002 at 10:19:42:
In Reply to: I can't act worth shit but I can read something... posted by zeta on May 22, 2002 at 10:11:21:
: out loud in a way that makes the characters truly come alive. I've actually gotten my students reading books in that way.
Yes, reading out loud is better for getting a group of people into a book than having them sit quietly reading to themselves, but this is because audio stimulation pierces far deeper into people's minds than visual does. That's a fact.
: So NO-its not harder to act without a face. If you have ANY kind of Fucking imagination-ITS EASIER!
Okay, tell me how, exactly, you would display sadness without crying or frowning or anything, just entirely in your voice. Facial acting is 70% of the job, you only use words when everything else fails, so to eliminate that tool -- and, in the case of J.Lo who's accused of "getting by on her looks" especially -- makes the job harder. I don't care what you say because, by your own admission, you know nothing about acting. I'm going by the interviews with the actors on the DVD of the film we're talking about here.
: And they did not TELL THE ACTORS TO MOVE A CERTAIN WAY. They SIMPLY WATCHED THEIR natural EVERYDAY GESTURES AND THEN mimicked them. Hell-they can do that with anyone.
No, they watched the natural gestures and such that the people had while performing their lines. Then, if they needed, they would have them act out certain actions, to get a sense of how they moved. But, yes, you're right, it's good that you put that part in capital letters, since it was exactly what I said earlier, that they watched the way the actors moved but didn't tell them to move a certain way.
Incidentally, a much better way to make the odd point you seem to trying to make would be to say "they did NOT tell the actors (etc.)", cause putting everything in caps just ruins your emphasis and makes everybody's eyes hurt. And it makes you seem stupid, but you don't seem to concerned with that. ("I don't know anything about acting, but I'm going to tell you everything about it anyway")