Is "method acting" really considered taboo in other parts of the world?
Is "method acting" really considered taboo in other parts of the world?
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He's right.
>Benicio del Toro burned himself with cigarettes to get into character for Fear and Loathing
WTF?
It meant he nodded off doing drugs with Johnny on the set, classic junky move
>I don't put up with all that American shit
ayo?
>he thinks DDL made method acting mainstream
child
He said nothing of the sort? Cox referred to method acting as "American shit" and that anon pointed out the most notorious method actor is British like Cox. Which implies there's nothing 'American' about method acting.
method acting is american though. It came from Stella Adler, Brando was one of the first method actors
>These techniques are built on Stanislavski's system, developed by the Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski and captured in his books An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, and Creating a Role.
yeah I know that what's your point? Stanivlaski didn't invent method acting, his techniques were further developed into it
>better go to wikipedia and read one or two sentences that seem to back me up, ignoring all the rest
retard
Cox is an old man referring to the origins of the practice becoming popular, with Brando and De Niro. Just because some Brits have adopted it and done it better afterwards doesn't change the fact that when Cox was first exposed to the idea of Method Acting it came from American actors, as opposed to the established British system that's more used to simply doing Shakespeare without having to pretend like they're the character.
All you're doing is showing you're too young to know anything about the practice beyond "but this one dude I know of isn't American!!!"
yeah its muh classicly trained vs method stuff sterotypically
Also isnt the second most well known method actor Christian bale? Europoors seethe so much about americans they dont live in reality
*DEMOLISHES DDL'S PRETENTIOUS BULLSHIT*
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Ah yes, renowned 3-time academy-winning actor David Harbour.
Seethe
Mad that your redditflix hack isn't taken seriously by anyone.
>only people with multiple oscars can comment on acting
Well, i take Tom Brady's opinion about Super Bowl wins much more seriously than Aaron Rodgers'.
Method acting is an American school of acting, popularized by Strasberg and Adler. Yes, people from other countries can also be method actors, same as they can also can act in American movies.
>My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?
I think acting is something that comes down to different strokes for different folks everyone's different and has different methods. As long as they're good actors who cares?
Wow, Brian Cox is fuckin' based.
>t. seething Jared Leto right now
Leto isn't even good at method acting. What the fuck does used condoms and dildos have to do with The Joker? It's just Leto's own degeneracy getting an outlet, nothing to do with the character.
>What the fuck does used condoms and dildos have to do with The Joker
Joker is canonically gay for Batman.
Leto only ever plays himself in every film he’s in.
I think he’s right for the standpoint that if you’re method acting instead of taking the directors direction then you’re likely fucking the whole film up. Directors use to tell actors what to do in every scen because they had an overall vision. Now they just act as the main producer and let some actors make up their lines because they’re so “talented”.
I have a friend who's worked in hollywood, and is still heavily involved in smaller productions. He said that, in his opinion, the single biggest reason that actors end up so messed up is because of method acting. Even if they don't claim to do it, they all do it to some degree, trying to put themselves in the mindset of the person they're playing. The sanest ones are the ones who just take direction and play pretend like this anon said.
>Directors use to tell actors what to do in every scen because they had an overall vision.
There are acting techniques that don't involve subsuming your own personality.
Maybe if modern movies weren't unbelievable piles of garbage they wouldn't have to try so hard to immerse themselves in the role.
Very true. I can think of a lot of older movies where the acting was objectively not great, but the movie was so good you didn't notice.
There's a reason why theatre work still gets people watching, despite nobody on stage acting like gritty realistic humans. The stories are just that good.
Method acting is gimmicky nonsense
>only way to put up a good performance is acting like insufferable asshat on set
No one wants to put up with that
But I LITERALLY AM goose's current film character
This is how (most) classical trained British actors feel. Method acting is stereotypically American, yeah
It seems reasonable that trying to put yourself in your character's headspace as much as possible would improve your performance, but when people start doing it for fucking capeshit its just so cringe, plus i don't think you need to go full autist with it and literally never break character while on set or some shit like that
Isn't him acting like a grumpy grandpa method acting? Or is it okay according to him because that's just how he is and he isn't acting just being himself?
No, he’s just playing pretend and doesn’t need to meme shit to achieve that
I suppose some actors have to 'method act' for a good performance but that means they're not as skilled as ones who don't have to do that. Ideally it's something they would grow out of
>I don't put up with all that American shit
Yea, you do.
This would explain why American actors are the best actors.
"method acting" is bullshit made up to pretend actors have something going on between their ears and aren't just faces and tits saying what an old garden gnome tells them to do, invented in an era where cold war chestbeating retards couldn't conceive of remuneration being unreflective of skill or ability.
A b rate actor telling A listers how to act
If you have to resort to method acting, then you’re not a naturally gifted actor
Nah, I think DDL and Christian Bale are both naturally gifted actors. Bale is basically the best child actor we ever got, showing us he had the stuff long before he started going too deep into his roles.
With method actors who are actually good it's the other way around, I think. They're naturally gifted to the point where they ended up looking for something deeper, something harder than the stuff they did with ease, because they want more meaning in their work. Without the method they'd still have ended up great. Meanwhile Jared Leto would suck ass whether he did Method or not, because he's not a naturally gifted actor and basically only doing the method thing because he thinks it'll make him look like a more serious actor in the post-DDL era, despite doing capeshit.
I wouldn't class Bale as a method actor. Just one that works really hard to look a certain way for the part
Agreed. Bale willing to transform physically for his roles makes it so he doesn't get typecasted. He's probably had the greatest variety of leading roles as an actor in contemporary types.
please kys, retarded wikifag.
Good, the Ancient Greeks wouldn’t have put up with that shit either. Can we just go back to treating actors like the whores they are?
Ah yes, let me get my acting advice from the guy who played the chief in Super Troopers.
Only sane answer itt.
Cox is an intellectual and thinks differently whereas someone like DeNiro is a dope and can only feel things because he has no intellectual understanding of anything. Just different brain types.
Brian also doesn't bother finding out what American accents actually sound like, he sounds ludicrous on Succession to the point the producers retconned him as a Canadian
He was great as Robert McKee in Adaptation where he didn't bother trying to sound American
Logan’s character made sense when he was a European born in the middle of a war/depression and had to build everything from the dirt. You can understand why he resents his kids for being born on Easy Mode.
>European born in the middle of a war/depression and had to build everything from the dirt
Then either he talks like the old country, or he talks like someone who shed that accent decades back. Transatlantic always sounds like uncanny shit.
actors "who put up with all that american shit" won multiple Oscars, this bro was never even nominated.
John Wayne won an Oscar, beating the method actor Dustin Hoffman. They mean absolutely nothing when it comes to actual acting skills, it's all politics.
>Major Hogan leaves the worst to the last
>he said you're a method actor
There's an old story that Dustin Hoffman walked onto the set of Marathon Man looking like he was about to die. Someone asked him what was wrong and he explained that he had stayed awake for several days without washing, so he could be as tired and run down as his character. Lawrence Olivier is supposed to have said, "You should try acting dear boy, it's so much easier!"
Method acting is a cool concept when you first learn about it when you're 16 but if you keep clinging to that notion without realizing how pointless and embarrassing it is you never grew up. Your job is to fucking act, not to "become" anything and if you can't do that without going schizo on purpose you're shit at your job.
>caring about method or quality of acting when twerking she hulk is the representation of modern film making
Seriously. Just say the fucking lines and stop acting like a cunt.
Coming from someone who plays the same character in everything he's in that's sorta rich.
Funny.
When you think about it, 100% of all good actors are american, so he's kinda VERY wrong.
Weird how the best of the best actors are usually Method. Probably an accident.
you don't even know what the method is you fucking gay
>Weird how the best of the best actors are usually Method
And Jared Leto
If you can't get into character unless you "live" through that persona 24 hours a day for weeks on end, forcing me have to shoot the shit with "Abraham Lincoln" between takes because god forbid your process gets interrupted, youre a fragile actor. You should be able to perform at will, tweek your performance at the director's direction, and turn it off when the scene is done. Its like saying you can't write unless you use a typewriter in a log cabin, you may need unnecessary roadblocks to do your craft but many others aren't inconvenienced by needing those limitations.
>let me tell you, a unique individual, how to be creative
anyone who says this is a fucking pathetic idiot hack
>let me tell you how to do something right
>here's how you eat
>NO I WANNA EAT WITH MY BUTT
>IM A UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL
>ANYONE WHO SAYS THATS WRONG IS AN IDIOT
that just makes me think maybe there really is something to method acting considering how pitiful his acting is on succession
Nobody will remember Cox whereas DDL, Bale and Brando will be remembered as some of the best in their craft
The ability to turn it on for the cameras and off again when they stop rolling is much more impressive than knowing that an actor can't act unless they're in character during production. It's actually so fucking cringe when you think about it.
He is right. Method acting is extremely fucking cringe. You're an actor, go act.