The Magic of Movies

 Both Dean and Monroe are product of the Actor's studio and of the Strasburg method. Thus cementing "method acting" as the way an actor prepares for the screen. There is considerable heated debate over which technique is right. Strasberg or Adler. There are strong proponents on both sides but in truth they both just have different approaches to acheiving the same thing, a truthful performance. If you have picked an incident that has in itself some motivation it may suggest to you somethung to do otherwise frankly you're going to stand there on stage. After watching the entirety of this video I was impressed with the insane amount of knowledge provided on the history and origin of acting. It taught me many things I did not know before. I learned more about famous directors which I found really cool. 

 The actors studio in York of October, 1947 was a place for professionals and amateurs alike to work and experiment with their craft. Members would be required to try out and it was by invitation only. It quickly became exclusive and a highly regarded place to be in New York acting circles. By 1949 several teachers began running classes at the studio, among them Sanford Meisner, Daniel Mann, Elia Kazan. Lee Strausberg was also brought to teach theater history but 1951, when Elia Kazan had left for Hollywood, Strasberg became an artistic director. Method acting with its naturalistic style was the perfect partner for cinemas unblinking eye which could capture every nuance of the performance. 

 The performances of actors would set the ball for a new American interpretation of Stanislavski's ideas which would ultimately be folded into the term "method acting".  After Stanislavskis Moscow Art Theater toured the United States, two members decided to stay behind and open a drama school called the The American Laboratory Theater in New York City in 1923. Among the first students were the first students were Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman and Stella Adler who would turn in start their own theater with Cheryl Crawford called the group theater in 1931. The group was a collective of actors, directors and playwrights. Stanislavski's System proposed that a series of physical actions arranged in sequential order would trigger the necessary emotions in an actor's performance. These emotions were based in the unconscious (or subconscious) and could not otherwise directly come to surface when needed. (wpmucdn.com) 

 In the 6th century theater became more formalized. Theater became a men only affair. Another change came with the Greek poet Arian who started writing down the Dithyramb introducing the word to the oral tradition. Around the same time, a singer named Thespis. Format wise, theater developed into these three categories: Satire Plays, Comedies and Tragedies. Satire plays were the oldest drawing from rituals to Dionysus and featured a lot of slapstick. Comedies were topical light hearted lampoons of the people and events of the time. A greek statesman made fun of by the Athenian performer Aristophanes. Tragedies were more serious works which featured a flawed mythic hero and Greek chorus which acted as the plays moral compass. At the end of each tragedy the hero manages to find himself in a catastrophe caused usually by his own hubris. 

 Nolan mentions how getting hands on work with the camera, and editing along that has enhanced his experience as a director. He talks about how it's paid off when it came to actually making feature length films and everything he's done he learnt from it. From terms of anything you're shooting something of a short film when trying to write a script for a short film it's very difficult to write a short film, in some ways its harder than for a feature to have a complete idea in just a few minutes and have a beginning, a middle, and have an appropriate conclusion so you learn a lot about narrative structure. I definitely agree with his words about going out there and getting hands on camera experience and simply practicing your craft by being a versatile creator. Practicing these other things helps you a lot in the long way by preparing you for a variety of situations that could possibly occur. Going forward I want to continue in my path by honing the skills I already have ...

 The cinema notebooks a magazine started by Andre Bazin and Jacques Donial Valcroze with a group of young French film critics including Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and so on. One of the central priniciples of Cahiers, derived from Andre Bazin, is a rejection of montage editing in favor of mise en scene the long take and deep focus allowing the audience to take in the scene as it unfolds. The other priniciple, derived from film critic Alexandre Astrucs, is the concept of camera stylo. It is an idea that a director should wield his camera like a writer uses his pen and that they need not to be hindered by traditional storytelling. Combining these two ideas in an essay in 1954: la politiques des auteurs, Trauffaut attacked the French "cinema of quality" with their heavy emphasis on plot and dialogue. These contemporary French directors, he claimed, added nothing to the script beyond that.