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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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    He's right.
    >Benicio del Toro burned himself with cigarettes to get into character for Fear and Loathing
    WTF?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It meant he nodded off doing drugs with Johnny on the set, classic junky move

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I don't put up with all that American shit
    ayo?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >he thinks DDL made method acting mainstream
      child

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          method acting is american though. It came from Stella Adler, Brando was one of the first method actors

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >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.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              yeah I know that what's your point? Stanivlaski didn't invent method acting, his techniques were further developed into it

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >better go to wikipedia and read one or two sentences that seem to back me up, ignoring all the rest
              moron

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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!!!"

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            yeah its muh classicly trained vs method stuff sterotypically

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Also isnt the second most well known method actor Christian bale? Europoors seethe so much about americans they dont live in reality

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      *DEMOLISHES DDL'S PRETENTIOUS BULLSHIT*
      Based Hopper

      ?t=112

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ah yes, renowned 3-time academy-winning actor David Harbour.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Seethe

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >only people with multiple oscars can comment on acting

            Mad that your redditflix hack isn't taken seriously by anyone.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >only people with multiple oscars can comment on acting

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Well, i take Tom Brady's opinion about Super Bowl wins much more seriously than Aaron Rodgers'.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wow, Brian Cox is frickin' based.
    >t. seething Jared Leto right now

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Leto isn't even good at method acting. What the frick 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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >What the frick does used condoms and dildos have to do with The Joker
        Joker is canonically gay for Batman.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Leto only ever plays himself in every film he’s in.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think he’s right for the standpoint that if you’re method acting instead of taking the directors direction then you’re likely fricking 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”.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Maybe if modern movies weren't unbelievable piles of garbage they wouldn't have to try so hard to immerse themselves in the role.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    But I LITERALLY AM goose's current film character

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is how (most) classical trained British actors feel. Method acting is stereotypically American, yeah

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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 fricking 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

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No, he’s just playing pretend and doesn’t need to meme shit to achieve that

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I don't put up with all that American shit
    Yea, you do.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This would explain why American actors are the best actors.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    "method acting" is bullshit made up to pretend actors have something going on between their ears and aren't just faces and breasts saying what an old israelite tells them to do, invented in an era where cold war chestbeating morons couldn't conceive of remuneration being unreflective of skill or ability.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A b rate actor telling A listers how to act

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you have to resort to method acting, then you’re not a naturally gifted actor

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I wouldn't class Bale as a method actor. Just one that works really hard to look a certain way for the part

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >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.

    please kys, moronic wikigay.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Good, the Ancient Greeks wouldn’t have put up with that shit either. Can we just go back to treating actors like the prostitutes they are?

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ah yes, let me get my acting advice from the guy who played the chief in Super Troopers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Only sane answer itt.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    actors "who put up with all that american shit" won multiple Oscars, this homie was never even nominated.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Major Hogan leaves the worst to the last
    >he said you're a method actor

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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!"

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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 fricking act, not to "become" anything and if you can't do that without going schizo on purpose you're shit at your job.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >caring about method or quality of acting when twerking she hulk is the representation of modern film making

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Seriously. Just say the fricking lines and stop acting like a c**t.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Coming from someone who plays the same character in everything he's in that's sorta rich.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Funny.
    When you think about it, 100% of all good actors are american, so he's kinda VERY wrong.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Weird how the best of the best actors are usually Method. Probably an accident.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you don't even know what the method is you fricking homosexual

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Weird how the best of the best actors are usually Method
      And Jared Leto

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >let me tell you, a unique individual, how to be creative
    anyone who says this is a fricking pathetic idiot hack

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >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

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    that just makes me think maybe there really is something to method acting considering how pitiful his acting is on succession

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody will remember Cox whereas DDL, Bale and Brando will be remembered as some of the best in their craft

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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 fricking cringe when you think about it.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    He is right. Method acting is extremely fricking cringe. You're an actor, go act.

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