Oh absolutely. And acting styles have improved as well. Compare a decent actor today with the best from the 40s. It's not even close. However, charisma is the same. So I am equally enthralled with Bogart as I am with Clooney, Lewis, or Pitt.
Interesting thread by @MattWalshBlog on whether acting has improved since 1930s movies.
I think, how could it not have?
There's cumulative progress in almost every technical art such as acting: better talent scouting, training, role models, feedback, competition.https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1138905067246018561 …
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Even with charisma... Did anybody in 1930s movies have The Rock's raw charisma? Modern society is just more efficient at identifying every form of talent.
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I would accept that of pretty much everything about movies except acting. Unlike other aspects of filmmaking, acting and its many techniques predate film by several hundreds of years going back at least to classical Greek culture of 300 to 600 BC.
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To an extent. There's been a sharp decline in last 5-10 years due to leftist age/sex/race quota demands.
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I am sure acting has improved but maybe profits have dictated shorter movies with less complicated dialogue because of the shorter attentions spans of audiences. Not to mention movies being made to be able to be released in China now. Quality is much lower.
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Movie acting has definitely improved, for the most part. Actors have moved away from stage acting methods to acting as one would in real life. However, there's something about the stylized acting of the 40s and 50s I just love. There were some good realistic actors then too.
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You could make the same argument much earlier with SFX or editing or any other modern technique which puts less weight on the actors skills and more weight on something else, For example today people are helped to play younger/older by developments in make up/styling.
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Nevertheless Renee Falconetti as Jeanne d’Arc in 1928 remains one of the most moving acting performances in film history.
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There was almost no naturalism in film acting until the mid-60s. The method actors of the 50s were a step forward, but were still too mannered. By the early 70s, you finally had a lot of acting not informed by the norms of the stage, and a fair number of naturalistic actors.
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And by the '70s, the requirements of the small screen had further encouraged this kind of 'scaling down' of expressiveness. These are adaptations to the medium. Successful screen actors can struggle on stage, as they can't 'scale' back up in a way that convinces emotionally.
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