49Acting for Film (Giannetti) 1. Personality vs. Actor Stars Personality Stars In Between Actor Stars Mary Pickford (audience dictated) John Wayne Marilyn Monroe Tom Hanks James Stewart Cary Grant Clint Eastwood?? Alec Guinness Johnny Depp Reese Witherspoon Forest Whitaker John Travolta 2. Expressionism/Formalist vs. Realism in Acting A Realist Style: The [American] Method School of Acting Constantin Stanislavksy “You must live the part every moment you are playing it.” Elia Kazan The Actors Studio (in New York) Lee Strasberg Actors such as: Marlon Brando James Dean Jim Carrey (e.g., Man on the Moon) Emphasis on ensemble playing (e.g., Sullivan’s50Travels) 3. Casting Typecasting (e.g., The Girl) 4. Editing and the “performance”51Writing for Film (Giannetti) 1. Multiple authorship 2. The Writer/Director 3. Figurative comparisons Motifs Symbols Metaphors Allegories Allusions 4. Literary adaptations Point of view: First person, Third person Loose, faithful, literal adaptations (literal adaptations almost always stage plays) 5. Dialogue vs. action (not Giannetti) e.g., Sullivan’s Travels—the “silent” sequences with only mickeymoused
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