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Differences between
stage and screen
acting Physicality
Real time vs. screen
time
Photogenic features
Acting
Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
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Actors in Formalist
Films vs. Realistic
Films
Acting
Sin CityThe Departed
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Film Actors
Marilyn Monroe
Clint Eastwood
Julia Roberts
Tom Cruise
Acting
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Shooting out of
sequence - does not
have to sustain aperformance
Looping or ADR
Stunt & Body
Doubles
Little or no rehearsal
Acting
Flashdance
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Personality Star
Actor Star
Icons
Acting
Pretty Woman
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Personality StarActing
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Actor StarActing
Kathy Bates
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IconsActing
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Styles of Acting
External mastery
Acting
Laurence Olivier
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Styles of Acting
Internal reality
Acting
Marlon Brando
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Style of the film
What kind of
camera is used?
How is it
photographed?
What is it about?
Acting
Moulin Rouge, The Others, Dogville & Bewitched
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Casting
Typecasting
Acting
Kal Penn in
Superman Returns
and 24
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Casting
Recognizable stars
Acting
The Namesake
Erin Brockovich
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Casting
Recognizable stars
Acting
Monsters Ball
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Casting
Amateurs
Acting
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What kind of actors?
How are they treated by the director?
How much editing? Are they allowed to speak without alot of cuts?
Does the film highlight one actor or the ensemble?
Does the star change from film to film or are theyalways symbolizing one thing?
What is the cultural connection of the starsiconography to the movie?
What is the style of acting? Realistic or stylized?
Why was the actor cast?
Acting
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On the Waterfront
1954
Dir. Elia Kazan
Starring Marlon Brando, KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva MarieSaint
Oscars: Best Actor, SupportingActress, Picture, Director,
Screenplay Budd Schulberg),Editing, Art Direction andCinematography
Filmed in 36 days in Hoboken
Parallels with HUAC Hearingswhere Kazan and Cobb testified
Acting
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The 1950s The Blacklist & the Hollywood
Ten - 1950
Interviewed 41 people
working in Hollywood whobecame friendlywitnesses who namedpeople with leftistsympathies
Some of these people
named others and somerefused to cooperate &were jailed
Those who refused werecalled the Hollywood Ten -mostly writers
Alvah Bessie, Herbert J. Biberman, Lester Cole,
Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John
Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz,
Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo
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The 1950s Snowball effect into The
Blacklist or those who would
not be hired by any studio
320 actors, writers andothers including
Jules Dassin, Lee Grant, John
Garfield, Jack Gilford, Martin
Ritt, Burgess Meredith, Zero
Mostel, Stella Adler, Judy
Holliday, Pete Seeger, Orson
Bean, Will Geer, Jean Muir,
Gale Sondergaard
Langston Hughes & Ronald Reagan
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The 1950s Kazan & Schulberg were
friendly witnesses
Kazans Honorary Oscar in 1999
caused protests and controversy Abraham Polonsky, blacklisted in the
50s, has this to say: I hope
somebody shoots him. It will be an
interesting moment in what otherwise
promises to be a dull evening.
Arthur Miller (Kazan directedDeath of a Salesman & AllMy
Sons on Broadway) broke with
Kazan & wrote The Crucible in
response