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shadowkat1. Watching Private Screenings with Liza Minelli on TCM - where she discusses her father, Vincent Minelli's directorial technique. Makes you appreciate the fine art of direction - which is 85% of film.It's a visual medium more than anything else. And you can tell a well-directed film vs. a poorly directed one. In one bit she discusses the classic film Home from the Hill starring Robert Mitchum, George Peppard and George Hamilton. The actors had completely different styles. With Mitchum, he knew all he had to do was give him the staging and let him go, with Peppard who was method - he had to work with him more - give him his motivation, and with George...he was a new-comer and had to give him line readings.
I love this line: When Gene Kelly danced - you knew it was a great number, when Fred Astair danced, you felt like he was making it up on the spot. - Liza Minelli.
It's an interesting way of distinguishing the two. For me? Kelley is raw emotion, while Astair is effortless grace. I'd say I prefer one over the other? But it depends. Kelley is amazing in An American in Paris and Singing in the Rain, smart-alek, yet raw, with a muscular grace, like Bugs Bunny, and Astair in Daddy Long Legs, Band Wagon (my favorite of the Astair flicks), and Funny Face - who had such effortless grace...he would fall into a waltz or a tap as if he were just deciding to walk across a room.
Liza repeats her mother's advice on acting and her fathers. Her mother says you have to figure out why that person is saying and if it is really that, and if she isn't really saying that, what else would she say - and she had me rehearse a line with her. Don't say what you're really thinking, say what you should say, and everything you are really thinking should come from the eyes. Her father says acting is hearing and saying it as if you are saying it for the very first time.
It's a craft and a difficult one, which the true pro's make look easy. Like pure magic. It's the magician who stands up in front of you and pulls that bunny out of the hat, effortlessly.
2. I'm enjoying Hunger Games more than expected. Katniss is actually quite interesting and I like her. I don't understand why people said she's not the most touchy feely or likable character at first? I like her much better than I did Buffy at first. She's tough. She loves her sister too pieces. Is a tom boy, and not that into the girly crap. Where's the problem? (bewildered).
I love this line: When Gene Kelly danced - you knew it was a great number, when Fred Astair danced, you felt like he was making it up on the spot. - Liza Minelli.
It's an interesting way of distinguishing the two. For me? Kelley is raw emotion, while Astair is effortless grace. I'd say I prefer one over the other? But it depends. Kelley is amazing in An American in Paris and Singing in the Rain, smart-alek, yet raw, with a muscular grace, like Bugs Bunny, and Astair in Daddy Long Legs, Band Wagon (my favorite of the Astair flicks), and Funny Face - who had such effortless grace...he would fall into a waltz or a tap as if he were just deciding to walk across a room.
Liza repeats her mother's advice on acting and her fathers. Her mother says you have to figure out why that person is saying and if it is really that, and if she isn't really saying that, what else would she say - and she had me rehearse a line with her. Don't say what you're really thinking, say what you should say, and everything you are really thinking should come from the eyes. Her father says acting is hearing and saying it as if you are saying it for the very first time.
It's a craft and a difficult one, which the true pro's make look easy. Like pure magic. It's the magician who stands up in front of you and pulls that bunny out of the hat, effortlessly.
2. I'm enjoying Hunger Games more than expected. Katniss is actually quite interesting and I like her. I don't understand why people said she's not the most touchy feely or likable character at first? I like her much better than I did Buffy at first. She's tough. She loves her sister too pieces. Is a tom boy, and not that into the girly crap. Where's the problem? (bewildered).
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Date: 2010-12-13 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-13 02:38 am (UTC)I think this a kink of mine - survivor tales with tough female leaders. I love female action characters - but they are so hard to find.
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Date: 2010-12-13 02:48 am (UTC)And she remains that throughout. There's no doubt who the protagonist is in the story. It's her. That said they manage to bring in some tertiary characters that I also loved like Johanna and Finnick.