Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The Value of Delivery?





When you play a good man,
try to find out where he is bad,
and when you play a villain,
try to find where he is good.
Stanislavski, 1889.


I´ve never been an actor or tried any acting lessons.
But from what i´ve seen, heard and learn to appreciate:
Acting is a form of art and it derives from the lines of Literature.
Tragedy, comedy, poem  or  sonnet … if anything is worth telling
It´s in books that you have to study and learn from elders.
The old fashioned way.

For me the best plots are the ones I can´t recall so much. Shakespeare and Cervantes are two master craftsmen devoted to one religion. WRITING. Every 10 or 20 years there should be an exercise of repeating or remaking good books into good movies. So audiences from different generations could easily compare Laurence Olivier to James McAvoy. Every time you step foot outside of a movie you should, I think, have coffee and talk about the movie, what was that? H ow it made me feel? I was hoping for a different ending? We should be striving and hungry for feed back.  The more you see the more you can compare. 
But I also believe in spontaneous combustion, the idea of someone who just starts playing piano, no lessons, no teacher  just some one who knows he felt like playing.
Maybe some one who hasn´t been born yet will make a GREAT movie or write THE PERFECT novel or begin to play an instrument to become a LEGEND Without anyone interfering. No LEARNING PROCESS of any kind.
I love having the possibility of seeing old movies and new movies.… “You don´t get anywhere until you make a decision “ Martin Scorcese




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¿El valor de la entrega?

Al interpretar alguien bueno hay que buscar el mal en el
Al interpretar a un villano hay que buscar el bien en el
Stanislavski 1889

Nunca he sido actor ni he tomado clases de actuación.
Pero de lo que he visto, escuchado y aprendido a apreciar:
Actuar es una forma de arte y deriva de las líneas de la literatura.
Tragedia, comedia, poema o soneto… si algo vale la pena contar.
Esta en libros y  debemos estudiar y aprender de los mayores.
A la antigüita.

Para mí las mejores tramas son las que no logro recordar tanto.
Shakespeare y Cervantes, dos maestros que tenían devoción a una religión. ESCRIBBIR. Cada 10 o 20 años debería hacerse un ejercicio, repetir o rehacer buenos libros a buenas películas. Para que de esa forma las nuevas y viejas audiencias pudieran comparar a Laurence Olilvier con James McAvoy. Cada vez que se saliera de una sala de cine deberíamos tener esa costumbre de tomar café y hablar de la película. ¿Que nos pareció?, ¿cómo me hizo sentir?, ¿esperaba otro final? Deberíamos estar ansiosos y hambrientos de retroalimentación. Entre más veamos más podemos comparar.
Pero también creo en la combustión espontanea, la idea de que alguien solamente comienza a tocar el piano, sin lecciones ni maestros, solamente alguien que sintió el deseo y comenzó a tocar.
Quizá alguien que todavía no nace hará una GRAN película o escribirá la novela PERFECTA o tal vez comience a tocar un instrumento para volverse LEYENDA sin ningún tipo de intervención. Sin PROCESO DE APRENDIZAJE.
Amo tener la posibilidad de poder ver Viejas y nuevas películas.
“No vas a ningún lado hasta que hayas tomado una decisión”…Martin Scorsese

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

“What's My Motivation?”


“What's My Motivation?”Character is based on motivation, but it also needs a setting
Good, bad or just weird ...a character is based on his or her past experiences .It has influenced him and molded the clay of its craft to the point of today.

"Within this scenario?"
For me it´s getting early somewhere and seeing the place alone. No talking or disturbing. A perfect peaceful world. No chaos in early. 

In almost all movies the director takes you somewhere empty or without people, before any dialogue. Establishing Scenario as there is establishing characters.
Scenario is the where and the where is a key element in storytelling. Every Scene on a screenplay or script begins with that. Where are we?  Ever noticed how many wet streets on movies? it appears as it if just rained...Do an exercise... go anywhere early and just move your sight as a camera would, watching people beginning their daily routines, walking sneezing or just waiting for the red light, 

but do it listening to Patrick Cassidy´s "Vide cor Meum"
Born in Ireland. He received a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics from Limerick University, and supported his early compositional activities with a day job as a statistician.
we are always expecting the director to answer all our questions 

We treat movies as doubts when in fact they are journeys & directors are storytellers. we should first listen and admire peacefully before expecting anything.




Wednesday, March 20, 2013

what the speaker is really thinking about??

What is timing?… for me the best way to be funny is timing not trying to be funny but to associate what´s going on just looking for the perfect spot to strike! The pacing of the delivery of a joke is everything.
My opinion: The funniest scenes are with serious actors.

Example

The movie: Alien 3
The scene: On the Planet FURY 161- Lt. Ellen Ripley ( played by Sigourney Weaver “Working Girl” ) has just found the remains of the smashed android Bishop( Lance Henriksen “Millenium”) and wants some answers

Ripley reconnects in an almost MEDICAL procedure Bishop to make him active again. But before she gets answers she will get two consecutive jokes.


INT. INFIRMARY 53
Alone, Ripley studies the remains of Bishop.
There¹s a battery pack in his left shoulder.
She checks the connections.
A spark sizzles.
Using a cable, she connects a terminal in Bishop's smashed thorax to the black flight recorder.
Instantly, Bishop's one eye blinks.
A garbled sound comes out of the small speaker at the back of his mouth.
Shoving her hand into his throat, she gives him an adjustment.
Bishop¹s voice suddenly becomes audible.

BISHOP
Ripley.

RIPLEY
Hello, Bishop. Can you feel anything?

BISHOP
Yes. My legs hurt.

RIPLEY
I'm sorry that --

. BISHOP
It's okay. I'm just a glorified toaster. How are you?
I like your new haircut...


EXAMPLE
The movie: Casablanca

The scene: in 20 seconds, Captain Renault (Claude Rains “The invisible Man” )sounds his whistle to alert everybody that Rick´s café Café Americain (Humprhey Bogart “The maltese falcon” ) is closed:

The script:
INT. RICKS CAFÉ


Captain Renault: Everybody is to leave here immediately. This café is closed until further notice. Clear the room at once!

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]

Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Captain Renault: Everybody out at once!