...Damian Roberts ENGL 1013 24 June 2013 “Acting vs. Lying” “Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I’m paid to tell elaborate lies.” – Mel Gibson. Everyone at least once in their life has been told, “Don’t lie,” or “lying will get you nowhere”. What about acting? Isn’t acting just another clever way to lie? Throughout my essay, I will tell about the differences and similarities that acting and lying share. Both the arts of acting and lying are trying to convince their audience by leading them into a trap of words. Both are devious and are tactics to impress or convince someone that something is true. An actor is a fantastic liar, while a liar is a fantastic actor. What that means is that they are both similar though the body language is not the same. People who act tend to lie for the sake of their character, but liars just lie for him or herself. In order to act one must act, speak, and think like their character would. However, a liar tries hard to be themselves, which accomplishes nothing. When an actor is trying to be a personality that is far from their own, people tend to catch on. They can see a twitching in the lips, looking secretly towards a script, or smiling at incorrect times. A liar would possibly hide behind hair, avoid eye contact, and make jokes to ease tension. How much time do you think an actor puts in for a great movie? This is the same as asking, how much time do liars put into their lies? When an actor receives a role in a big production or...
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...One performing art that can affect a child’s life forever is acting. Acting is a great way for a child to express themselves. They can be whoever they want to be and is like a big game of dress-up. Acting can just be a way for the kid to be themselves, or a full-time career. When they grow up, they can decide which path they would like to take in acting. Hollywood, Broadway, or just a normal job. These are huge decisions for their career and their life forever. For a Hollywood career, a child can get in over their head when they start to act. They can feel a sense of entitlement and have a giant ego. They can get into a downhill spiral of drugs, alcohol, and other bad things. This may not happen to everyone, but in most cases, this is the...
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...The Evolution of Acting In the ancient Greek theater, acting was stylized; indeed, the large outdoor theaters made subtlety of speech and gesture impossible. The actors, all men, wore comic and tragic masks and were costumed grotesquely, wearing padded clothes and, often, artificial phalluses. Nevertheless, there were advocates of naturalistic acting even at that time, and actors were held in high esteem. In the Roman period actors were slaves, and the level of performance was low, broad farce being the most popular dramatic form. The tragedies of Seneca were probably read in declamatory style, rather than acted on stage. During the Christian period in Rome, acting almost disappeared, the tradition being upheld by traveling mimes, jugglers, and acrobats who entertained at fairs. In religious drama of the Middle Ages, an actor's every gesture and intonation was carefully designated for performance in church, and, as with the later pageants under the auspices of the trade guilds, the actors were amateurs. Modern professional acting began in the 16th cent. with the Italian commedia dell'arte, whose actors improvised convincing and entertaining situations from general outlines. During the Restoration period in England, Thomas Betterton and his wife Mary were famous for their naturalness of delivery, as was Edward Kynaston. Their contemporaries, Charles Hart, Barton Booth, and James Quin, however, were well known for their lofty, heroic acting, a style that became dominant in...
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...Loud cheers, applauses, light shining in your face. Acting has been my life since I was a little girl, being on stage and performing has been my passion. As I got older and moved to the United States I started to drift away from acting, it was no longer the reason I want to go to school anymore. Even though acting has been a huge part of my life I decided to flip the page and start the new chapter in my life. When I was eight was when I first did my first show. I was acting as a little girl that was being bullied and our show was about how that was not acceptable. Since that day on acting has been a huge part of my life. I have been in many other show until then. . As I started to get older I moved to the United State, I struggled to get into...
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...Acting Profession Student’s Name Institution Date Once the day ends, the career choice of an individual is mainly about demand and supply. If there is an instance where the demand is more than the supply, then the job opportunities are numerous, and the payment is right. When venturing into a field like acting, a lot of people typically would like pursuing this career choice; however, only a small number of the available job are present and therefore, the job options and payment shrink to small levels. In an acting career, the human instincts of a person and their moral fiber are an important aspect. The person sometimes does not depict similar emotions when asked to do a particular scene again because the second time, the person becomes aware of what they are doing. Also, the constant repetition of a particular action for the sole objective of perfection is a challenging but achievable process. Acting entails the person portraying someone else (Vaughn, 2010). When considering acting as a potential career choice, the person needs to ensure they have a reliable backup plan. Education yourself in another career might enable you to sustain yourself as between acting opportunities. A great actor must always make the audience believe he is going through whatever the character he is playing is going through. The player needs to surprise regularly the viewer as this is one of the most nebulous and important requirement. They need to acknowledge the limitations...
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...Sally Giang Michael Flannery THR 100-01 October 10, 2012 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Have you ever thought ‘Wow, that person can really act!’ or ‘Whoa, that person can not act’? Many people have their own opinions of what good acting is and what bad acting is. In my case, good acting is has to be natural. When an audience watches you act, they have to see that the setting that you’re in, you’re completely comfortable in it. Meaning don’t look stiff, don’t try to ‘overact’ your part, be completely natural with your character to where the audience might think the part was made for you. Good acting is when the person feels what the character feels and can bring about the emotion that the character is feeling. Bad acting is when a person can feel somewhat awkward on stage and the audience feels that awkwardness. I feel that if you’re more engrossed in the actor or actress rather than the character that they are in then that’s when you can tell their acting is not very good. The acting in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson was good in my opinion. Everyone seemed up to par with his or her character and no one stood out to me with any sort of bad acting. I was satisfied with the play itself and the acting played a huge part on my satisfaction. Actors typically really make up the play. If the actors aren’t good, the play won’t be good. When I first saw the actor who was going to play Andrew Jackson, I immediately assumed he was going to be a jerk due to his appearance. Later on...
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...required to make it in Hollywood. If you've always wondered how to become a film or television actor, then here are ten steps that may not get you the role of a lifetime, but they will help you to treat your acting career as a career and not simply as something you choose to do for fun. Keep in mind that if you're hoping to become a theater actor, some of these may not apply to you. However, all ten steps are good to keep in mind no matter what type of acting you decide to pursue. Step 1: Learn How to Act Seems like a given, doesn't it? But I can't tell you the number of people that come out to Hollywood thinking that all they need to do is get a job as a waiter at some popular restaurant, meet an agent, get "discovered" and then it's nothing but champagne and caviar from there. Uh...no. Acting is first and foremost a craft. The best of the Hollywood actors understand this and no matter how far they have come in their careers, they are constantly looking to improve upon their craft. They take classes, work with acting and dialogue coaches, they study life experiences, etc. They know full well that even after a lifetime of work and study, they may never reach absolute perfection. So, for you, it's imperative that you take a wide variety of acting classes. Work in a wide variety of styles with a as many different groups of people that you can find. Try it all. From Shakespeare to comedy, from improv to cinema verite -- the more you know, the more well rounded...
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...Duty to avoid conflicts of interest When acting for the principal, an agent must not allow his own personal interests to come into conflict with the interests of his principal. If the agent has any personal interest that might conflict with his principal's interest, he must disclose it and the principal must consent to the agent continuing to act for him. If the agent breaks this duty, his principal may set aside any transaction effected by the agent and claim any profit made by the agent. * Practical situations include while acting as agent for the buying or selling of property, he sell property to or buy property from his principal without full disclosure of the relationship. McPherson v Watt (1877) 3 - a solicitor acted as the agent for two ladies who wished to sell certain houses - the solicitor himself purchased the property though nominally the property was bought in the name of his brother - the House of Lords refused to grant the solicitor specific performance of the contract of sale - such a breach of duty would, however, be waived if the agent makes a full disclosure of his interest to the principal and the latter is still willing to proceed with the transaction * If an agent is employed to buy property for his principal, he must not sell his own property to his principal unless he discloses his fact Implied or usual authority This permits the agent to perform all reasonable incidental or subordinate acts necessary in exercise of his given express authority...
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...Explore the impact of Act One of Volpone. The first act makes very clear to the audience that Volpone is a Comedy of Types, meaning most character embody a set of characteristics in a very identifiable stereotype. This stereotype is backed supported by their names alluding to different types of animals, most commonly birds and “Volpone” meaning “fox”. Volpone is also a Beast fable, as the plotline is a realisation of the story of the fox playing dead to catch the scavenging birds of prey e.g. Voltore – a vulture, Corvino – a crow. However, Mosca and Volpone are different. They have a different type of characteristic. Their defining factor is deception, both by changing how they look, but also how they seem to think and act. At the same time as being their personality, they lose the “type” which the other characters have. Money is presented as the driving force behind the characters. Volpone feigns his illness so that people will come and, ironically, give him more riches in the hope that they might become his heir. Mosca acts as the servant who is supposedly on the side of the men wanting to be his heir, although he tells all of them separately that they can buy their right to inherit. Jonson presents the loss of morality and ideals from each individuals wish for more money. Corvino brings what the audience suspects to be poison in the guise of medicine so that Volpone will die sooner, and Corbaccio is prepared to reassign his will away from his son to Volpone because he is...
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...characters’ French names, which are rather exotic even for me. I think that because I had previously studied Molière’s work in class, I was expecting this play to be performed in a much more traditional style. I was a little disconcerted at first when seeing the actors performing a more modern version than what I had in mind. I ended up liking what Arne Zaslove has done with the play. In my opinion, modernizing it a little makes it easier to relate to the characters. However, mostly I think due to language barrier, I found the play really hard to follow which made it less enjoyable for me. When it comes to acting, I thought that, overall, all the actors did a great job playing their characters. None of them ever looked at specific members of the audience while performing. I liked the way they used hand gestures or lowering their voice to address the audience. I particularly liked the acting skills of the actors playing Géronte, Lucinde and Léandre. I thought that they had the best elocution compared to other actors; they were speaking in a loud and clear way, articulating each word which made it easier for me to understand. To me the other actors’ enunciations were not as good. For instance, I thought that the actor playing Sganarelle did not do such a good job. It seemed like he was trying to be loud but ended up yelling most of the time instead, which I found tiring both for me and for him. This also made it harder to distinguish the different emotions he was playing. Furthermore, I...
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...related to us more. If we were in her situation, this is similar to what we would do. In the book before the sedar meal she was at her Catholic friends house and they were celebrating Easter. They were eating Jelly Beans and Hannah was Jealous and wanted to become Catholic. I liked that scene in the book over her getting Tattoos in the movie. The book had more characters and more description on characters. Gitl was one of my favorite characters in the book and he wasn’t in the movie. The book gave more detail on their personality and their characteristics. On their characteristics you could use your imagination more. The movie was more straight forward adding characters with no description. The movie was more acting because they Holocaust is to cruel to try to act out. The book you could believe it more. Those are the reasons why I...
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...Bashira Shamsid-Deen Professor Wright Journal Entry #3 7 April 2014 1. The Rewards of Being an Understudy by Ilene Starger This article is about the importance of being an understudy and how you can reward from becoming one. Actors of difference levels of experience often decline being an understudy or they are just not that interested in that position. This is mainly because it is very frustrating for them to tie themselves to a job where they may never get a chance to go onstage and be seen. They also choose not to be understudies because it frustrates them to be thought of as “understudy material”. What these actors fail to realize is that being an understudy can be a tremendous opportunity because it requires an extensive skill set. It takes a lot of talent to cover for a lead role or even a supporting one because it strengthens the actor’s talent, their memorization skills, and their range. Many people don’t know that understudies earn a weekly paycheck just like their other fellow actors in more stable parts and they are also able to build strong relationships, network, and be in a space where they can practice their craft around other people doing the same thing. First, let me explain what an understudy is. It is a person who learns another's role in order to be able to act as a replacement at short notice. This may sound like a job for a more inexperienced actor or someone who is just starting out in the field, but that is not true. There are actors and actress...
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... BODY Willard Carroll Smith Jr. also better known as the “Will” Smith is an American actor, rapper, comedian, songwriter, and producer (World book, 2016). He illustrates the concept of virtues that were described by Aristotle in many ways. Having wittiness of act, showing an appropriate desire to achieve, having generosity, and magnificence. He gives an excellent representation of how a person should live by for success in this contemporary world. A lot of actors are focused on themselves and get lost in greed of wealth. Will Smith show magnificence and generosity despite all the money he makes crediting it toward a foundation that was started by him and his wife. In the acting industry, many virtues are used daily to support their image and prosperity. Instead of only focusing on just acting, he shows an appropriate desire to achieve more by many different roles and is well known for showing wittiness of act in his public life as a Philanthropist. CONCLUSION The contemporary public figure Will Smith illustrate virtues that are very close to the ones Aristotle presumes correct. His characteristics and ways of life seem to flow well with attributes a person would use. In this day in age, I feel no one has the same virtues that Aristotle lived by, but many come close. Having a significant aspect of life and using Aristotle list of attributes for success would be an excellent guide for...
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...Keely Jane Melton 12 March, 2015 SFUAD Questions Personal Statement My main interests in this discipline are simple: to become a better and greater actress. I’ve harbored the passion for acting ever since I was a young girl, so when the opportunity arose for me to further my abilities and better myself became apparent, I was over the moon. I want to become as well-rounded of an actress as I can be; in musicals, in straight plays, and in film. While I admired acting as a young child, it wasn’t until middle school when I got involved. With a stroke of bravery, I decided to audition for the middle school one act play. To my surprise, I made it, and I was bitten by the acting bug. Ever since then, with my first show being The Imaginary Invalid by Moliére and my latest show being Don Nigro’s Maelstrom between a five year period, I’ve devoted my entire high school career, and summers, to the shows in my little town. As for one acts, I’ve done A Midsummer Nights Dream, Alice In Wonderland, The Imaginary Invalid, and Maelstrom. Outside of one act I’ve done CATS, Southern Hospitality, and Shrek. Outside of high school, I’ve done musicals with our local Shining Star Productions studio, headed by Amanda Brandenburg. These include Peter Pan, Steel Magnolias, Aladdin, White Christmas and The Wizard of Oz. For college, I’m hoping to take the skills taught to me by my directors and expound upon them— like I said previously, to become a better, well rounded actress. This profession is...
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...practical and imaginary entrance point, which is within 30 yards. Once the facility is located, participants are told to behave like laboratory animals to confirm their applicability to the study. Each must choose their own animal and play the role with total animation and emersion if they want to receive their free superpowers. Those who do not behave properly are ejected from the program. After a few moments, the scientists declare who is the most fit for super-power research. Depending on the animal chosen, the genetic engineering program will endow participants with qualities belonging to that animal. Each participant is to determine which these are to be and then give an account of how this may either help or harm his or her lives. Acting out scenes of most their desired scenarios is encouraged between the participants. How might adjustment to a new life with animal super-powers be? Play with the question extensively. After sufficient time has passed to comprehend the significance of the new life, the researchers call with some unfortunate news. Tests indicate that half the animal subjects will experience and adverse mutation side effect of super-villainy. Participants shall now choose the person whose superpower makes them the worst super powered villain and the best super powered villain for experimentation. The other participants have the task of preventing the villains from their tyranny on the event score by herding them into the research facility’s secret entrance...
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