Do you think your experience is common? It doesn't seem to be true for the acting of most movie, TV show, or commercial scenes.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @JordanTSack
Haha yeah, most actors are terrible. Sorry, mean. But it’s true. I think real artists, actors seeking real ‘truth’ in performance are at least seeking that depth. The problem comes when acting is a means to being famous. Then it’s superficial. Plus, when acting is just 1/2
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something done for a commodified media image then it loses that social and cultural depth. But it’s more common than you might think. 2/2
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Replying to @austin_hayden @JordanTSack
Do you ever find yourself unable to snap out of your role at the end of a scene?
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Replying to @MimeticValue @JordanTSack
Yeah. I was just gonna respond to that. It happens alllllll the time. One of the reasons Mamet/Macy developed their Practical Aesthetics approach. They thought it was psychologically damaging to get that immersed into a character/scene/etc. I will never forget the first time 1/
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I witnessed an actor get stuck in the character. Really traumatic role and for about 30 minutes after the scene, he was crying uncontrollably. Couldn’t get back ‘to reality’. Gnarly.
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I wouldn’t say that’s normal on commercial sets or anything. But it surely happens. Again, not all actors are this way, cause most are just trying to bang models. But performance theory and practice does allow for that depth. 3/3
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Replying to @austin_hayden @JordanTSack
I think the Practical Aesthetic guideline thing was Girard's point. We have an implicit taboo of getting too into a role, and we see it as "fake," while primitive societies genuinely believed that they were possessed by gods during the trance, and they sought that experience.
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Replying to @austin_hayden @JordanTSack
We have a expectation of snapping out of roles so that we can go on with normal life in society without freaking out normies and old ladies. But for the ancients, LARPing was part of the collective spiritual practice.
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Interesting, i wouldn’t have guessed many actors today actually got this deep.. certainly have never heard any articulate that level of depth. Think an important point is that in shamanic tribes, the entire group would participate in the shamanic ceremonies.
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