They're made of lipstick, plastic and paint, a touch of sable in their eyes
So, good news, my mother is considering giving me back my facebook. Okay, little warning for this post, the owercase "l" key isn't working on my keyboard, so I'm just copying and pasting it, so if I forget it a few times, I'm sorry!
I was thinking about what Toast was saying about Hardin going for certain looks for characters, and I think that's what really pisses me off about theater directors, the real ones. I'm sorry, but I genuinely don't think that the look you have makes any difference at all in high school theater. I guess I just think that because when you look at the really great actors-in theater, movies, whatever-what makes them so great is their ability to go against what they naturally have. Ian Mackellan is such a tiny man, but when he plays a powerfu role like lear or Magneto, he is able to stand and present himsef in a way that makes him seem so much stronger and physically larger. Ellen Page was fucking twenty when she played Juno, who's supposed to be sixteen, but even though she looked older and had some lines on her forehead, you could believe she was sixteen because of the way she gestured and talked and even walked.
There's a movie called Dave about a guy who looks just like the president, and they have him double as the president to protect the pres. Kevin Kline plays both the pres and the guy who looks just like him. There's only one scene that the two guys he both plays are in the same room together; it's a medium shot with both the pres and the guy who looks like him, you see both their profiles, and Kevin Kline looks like he genuinely is two different people; he holds his jaw differently for the grumpy president, and he hunches over a little bit for him. The guy who looks like the president is really nervous and jittery, but his face is more loose and moving with the nerves. It was the best acting I've ever seen, when you can change yourself for the sake of a role.
Which is why I don't think a look really matters nearly as much as talent in something like high school theater. The reason it matters in real theater is the fact that a director might have to use look to chose between two very good actors for the same part, or because a director might need to narrow the field or auditioners(is that a word?) more, or maybe he wants one character to look a certain way in comparison to another actor. In high school, there aren't that many options, and look, in my opinion, is nothing that should be high priority.
Okay, I don't know how that came out, but I just had to make my argument about the whole look thing. I shut up now. x)
I was thinking about what Toast was saying about Hardin going for certain looks for characters, and I think that's what really pisses me off about theater directors, the real ones. I'm sorry, but I genuinely don't think that the look you have makes any difference at all in high school theater. I guess I just think that because when you look at the really great actors-in theater, movies, whatever-what makes them so great is their ability to go against what they naturally have. Ian Mackellan is such a tiny man, but when he plays a powerfu role like lear or Magneto, he is able to stand and present himsef in a way that makes him seem so much stronger and physically larger. Ellen Page was fucking twenty when she played Juno, who's supposed to be sixteen, but even though she looked older and had some lines on her forehead, you could believe she was sixteen because of the way she gestured and talked and even walked.
There's a movie called Dave about a guy who looks just like the president, and they have him double as the president to protect the pres. Kevin Kline plays both the pres and the guy who looks just like him. There's only one scene that the two guys he both plays are in the same room together; it's a medium shot with both the pres and the guy who looks like him, you see both their profiles, and Kevin Kline looks like he genuinely is two different people; he holds his jaw differently for the grumpy president, and he hunches over a little bit for him. The guy who looks like the president is really nervous and jittery, but his face is more loose and moving with the nerves. It was the best acting I've ever seen, when you can change yourself for the sake of a role.
Which is why I don't think a look really matters nearly as much as talent in something like high school theater. The reason it matters in real theater is the fact that a director might have to use look to chose between two very good actors for the same part, or because a director might need to narrow the field or auditioners(is that a word?) more, or maybe he wants one character to look a certain way in comparison to another actor. In high school, there aren't that many options, and look, in my opinion, is nothing that should be high priority.
Okay, I don't know how that came out, but I just had to make my argument about the whole look thing. I shut up now. x)