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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

The Departed
  Sin City  
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  

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