Acting Michael Caine (Chapter 1 & 2)
If you catch somebody _______ in a movie, that actor is doing it wrong.
"Acting"
Gradually, book in hand, stage actors splash themselves with gentle doses of the play, scene by Scene starting with _______________
Act One, Scene One
Like an ____________________, the camera hangs on your every word, your every look, she can't take her eyes off you. She is listening to and recording everything you do, however minutely you do it, never known such devotion. She is you have also the most ___________, while you, for most of your career, look elsewhere and ignore her.
Attentive mistress & Faithful Lover
In real a drunk makes a huge effort to appear sober. Eventually, that be of puts up a ____________between the actor and the audience.
Barrier
A film actor must be able to dream another person's dreams before he can ________________________
Call that character his own
Apart from anything else, preparation uses up a lot of the nervous energy that otherwise might rise up to betray you __________________, focus it into areas that you control.
Channel that energy
Mostly the off-camera actor is there and will be very generous with his time and give you just as intense a performance as he did in his __________; but sometimes he's needed elsewhere and you have to cope by pretending he's there when he isn't.
Close up
Once you accurately for to keep mannerisms and actions repeat those variety of shots We'll deal with special problems of continuity later, but basically you usually need to repeat a sequence at least three times on film: once for the long shot, once for the medium shot, and once for the __________
Close up
Preparation is a big step toward controlling those nerves. All the work beforehand is going to help subdue the you do come together to fear. All your preparation everybody needs _____________ don't usually know the in acting, you on the set, director's intentions until you those terror may strike the under any circumstances.
Create a safety
Discipline is necesssary at any level of film acting, but in some ways, small parts are the hardest. It's terrifying to have to say just one line. I did it in about a hundred pictures.
Discipline
Behaving realistically u truthfully in front of a camera is an and exacting craft, one that requires steadfast____________
Discipline and application.
In the old days, if an actor had to cry in a scene, he'd launch into a big __________________ to show the audience his grief.
Emotional number
True or False: Acting is easy
False
True or false: You have to make a special impression the first time you step infront of a camera
False
Establish where to go (the venue of your shoot might always be changing and then mentally rehearse your journey there as if it were the _________________.
First scene in the film
They say you've learned a ___________ when you start dreaming it.
Foreign language
There is a lot of dead time for an actor during the making of a movie. You can sleep and possibly a dopey on camera, or you can socialize and wear yourself out. I socialize enough not to offend anyone, but I deliberately spend a lot of time in the dressing room. I use the time to _______________
Go through those lines.
Once audiences saw acting like Henry Fonda's in The ___________, they tuned in to the difference between behavior that is based on carefully observed reality and the stagier, less convincing stuff.
Grapes of Wrath
Audiences themselves have had a lot to do with the changes in film acting. They catch on very fast to what is truthful and what is not. Once audiences saw acting like _________________ in The Grapes of Wrath, they tuned in to the difference between behavior that is based on carefully observed reality and the stagier, less convincing stuff.
Henry Fonda's
PLAY FOR THE MOMENT, IMMORTALITY WILL TAKE CARE OF _________________________
Itself
The script sometimes directs you to interrupt, but if it doesn't, your thought may start well before you get a chance to respond. There may be a __________ that triggers you during the sentence the other actor is saying. So pick up on that form your thought and be ready to speak.
Key Word
If theatre acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a _______. The scale of a film performance may be smaller than that of a performance in the theatre, but the intensity is just as great.
Laser
The director always expects you to bring a fully formed characterization with you, and this without your seeing the set or meeting fellow actors. ___________about practice them your character's physical get on the set, you will have and it simple.
Make the decisions
______________ work in on the Waterfront was so relaxed and underplayed, it became another milestone in the development of film acting.
Marlon Brando's
_________________ work in on the Waterfront was so relaxed and underplayed, it became another milestone in the development of film acting.
Marlon Brando's
If you can't convince yourself, the chances are that you won't convince the character opposite you, ______________
Or the director
A film actor must be sufficiently in charge of his material and in tune with the life of his character to think his character's most ________________ as though no one were watching him camera spying on him. The ___________ just happens to be there.
Private thoughts & camera
There may be rehearsals, but that is by no means certain; and more than likely, if you have them, they won't be for you but for the benefit of the camera people! And despite all your preparation, you have to _______________. You might have to incorporate new lines physical changes at a moment's notice.
Remain flexible
The modern film actor knows that real people in real life struggle not to ________________________.
Show their feelings
Acting has become even more demanding, partly because of changes in ________ partly because of the requirements actors and directors have placed on themselves, and partly because of shifts in audience expectations
Technology
What is "Drying" in film acting?
The camera noticing your emotions when you forget your lines
In life, we often pick up the thought provokes our next remark halfway through someone else's speech. Thoughts don't leap to the mouth automatically. We don't interrupt at every occasion when _____________, or, if we do, we don't have many friends.
a thought formulates itself
If you catch somebody ________ in a movie, that actor is doing it wrong. The moment he's caught "performing for the camera, the actor has blown his cover. He's no longer a private character in a private world.
acting
A film actor must be able to dream another person's dreams before he __________________________
can call that character his own
One of the most crucial jobs you'll have as an actor will be to know what you're thinking when you're not talking Say your lines aloud while you're learning them until you find what strikes you as the best possible expression of that particular thought. If there are plausible variations,________________ , practice them, too; but keep them up your sleeve.
develop them
Unoccupied time doesn't have to be dead time. It's only dead if you kill it. A lot of actors run other businesses from their _______________. I was working with Sylvester Stallone and I asked him what was so attractive about his trailer that he kept rushing back to it between takes. I thought he might have a girl in there. "I'm writing Rocky ILI" said.
dressing rooms or trailers
Plan your mannerisms and actions precisely and keep them so that you can repeat them ________________________________________________________
effortlessly and simple accurately.
In the old days, if an actor had to cry in a scene, he'd launch into a big ___________ to show the audience his grief.
emotional number
And if your thoughts aren't linked to what you're saying, then you won't be able to say a line as if you invented it on the spot. So you must be ________ with the whole conversation, not just your own bits.
familiar
If you can't convince yourself, the chances are that you won't convince the character opposite you, or the director. You're your _____________ long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
first best audience
They say you've learned a ____________ when you start dreaming it.
foreign language
A film actor must be sufficiently in charge of his material and _________ with the life of his character to think his character's most private thoughts as though no one were watching him camera spying on him. The camera just happens to be there.
in tune
You don't have to make a special impression. The camera doesn't have to be wooed; the camera already _________________.
loves you deeply
The long shot is the wide-angle shot taken at a distance. This shot reveals If there are three actors all the ingredients of a scene practicing their golf strokes on the office carpet, in the long shot you will see all of them plus the carpet. This shot is also frequently called the "___________" because it shows the whole scene.
master shot
It is the best guide to the placement of the camera for the other shots and it is the for inclusion of other shots when the scene is edited. The __________ is a closer view of selected ingredients. The close-up is a very close view of only one element.
medium shot
Over the years, the modern cinema audience has been educated to watch for catch the ____________ that an actor wielding the of body language, the actor can produce an enormously powerful gesture on the screen.
minute signals
If your concentration is total and your performance is truthful, you can lean back and the camera will catch you every time, it will ______________
never let you fall.
Give your best reading as if it were the ________________________; but your mind should be hanging loose enough to take a leap, if necessary.
only one possible
Say your lines aloud while you're learning them until you find what strikes you as the best possible expression of that _______________________
particular thought.
So to avoid all that horror, prepare. Apart from anything else, preparation uses up a lot of the nervous energy that otherwise might rise up to betray you Channel that energy, focus it into areas that you control The first step in preparation is to learn your lines until saying them becomes a ________________.
predictable reflex
The first step in preparation is to learn your lines until saying them becomes a____________ .
predictable reflex
If you haven't grasped the logic of why you say a particular thing, you won't say it _______________________________
properly or convincingly.
Otherwise, the master shot, the medium shot, and the close-up will not match, ___________________, and you will be costing the producers time and money, not the most endearing quality for producers to remember when they're casting their next film.
scenes will have to be shot again
Don't imagine that you do everything theatrically but just at a reduced pitch, either. You must be thinking every moment because the camera looks into your mind, and the audience __________________ . If the mind is in overdrive, the body is headed in the right direction.
sees what the camera sees
Learn your lines for the whole film before you start _________, and keep studying them during the gaps your shooting.
shooting
And don't mouth them silently, them aloud until they become totally your property. Hear yourself say them, because the last thing you want is the_______________________________ taking you by surprise or not striking you as completely convincing.
sound of your own voice
PLAYS ARE PERFORMED: MOVIES ARE MADE Shooting a movie is a long, relentless grind. If you're not physically strong, if you don't have the stamina to go the distance, don't bother ________________
starting the race
Over the years, the modern cinema audience has been educated to watch for catch the minute signals that an actor ________________, the actor can produce an enormously powerful gesture on the screen.
wielding the of body language
One of the most crucial jobs you'll have as an actor will be to know what __________
you're thinking when you're not talking
