Talk:Method acting
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There's a very good (and funny) anecdote which would go well in the section about derision of method acting -- Lawrence Olivier (I think?) saying to Dustin Hoffman (again, not sure) "try acting, it's so much easier". If someone can pin down the specifics... -- Tarquin
- This (supposedly) took place on the set of Marathon Man. The best reference I can find is http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/articles/290701.htm
- I haven't checked the link yet, but the story goes that Hoffman, in preparation for a scene in which his character hadn't slept, didn't himself sleep for a week in order to achieve "the right emotional state" for the character. Olivier, on finding out why Hoffman looked terrible, uttered that remark. HOWEVER, neither Stanislavski nor any of his disciples would advocate such extreme behavior, and it is this kind of mistake that gives Method acting a bad name.-- zarquan42
I have removed a request to E-mail someone (perhaps an author of the article) from the article, on the basis that this could be abused. What is Wikipedia policy on putting E-mail addresses in pages? -- Anon.
- I would have removed it also, but primarily for a different reason - that an invitation to email some random person (who may or may not be an authority on method acting, we have no way of knowing) is not useful information for an encyclopedia article.
- In general, there hasn't been a policy on this matter as there has been no need. My take on the matter is that a) if the person organisation wishes to be contactable, presumably they will have a webpage advertising this and it's much more appropriate to provide a link to the webpage (and thus give them the reponsibility of making the decision what contact information they wish to provide), b) the utility of adding email addresses to encyclopedia articles seems limited, and c) unless an adress is public knowledge it's highly inappropriate to violate an individual's privacy by publicising it here. So, in general, I see that in *most* circumstances, it would be inappropriate to add email addresses to pages. Of course, what a user chooses to place on their own user page, provided it relates to Wikipedia, is up to them. --Robert Merkel
- By the way, Anon, I see your IP address keeps on popping up. Why not get an account? If you don't want to give us your RL identity, you don't have to, and it helps discussions if you can attribute views to entities. That's true, even if we're not sure whether that entity is really Joeseph Bloggs from Billings, Montana, Hou Ming Xihua from Shanghai, or G'nord Wazzlewozzle from the planet F'ltroon (the F'ltroonians have developed pretty cool quantum technologies allowing them to link in with our primitive communications networks in real time despite their location 547 light years away :-) ). --Robert Merkel
I read this article and I still don't know what method acting is. Philwelch 22:13, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- I think it's because the article defines method acting techniques as including "the extremely notable 'what if', 'substitution', and 'emotional memory'" without explaining what any of those entail. --Arteitle 16:18, Jul 2, 2004 (UTC)
It's been a year, almost to the day, that I last complained about this article. I just read it again. Once again, I fail to comprehend what method acting is. Philwelch 02:45, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
149.99.155.34...why did you change it from "This approach..." to "This stupid approach??
I read many articles on this method and others. It seems like every site i go to I can't seem to find out what the methods actually are. I have a paper due tomorrow and i can't seem to figure out what to write!!!! (~*ELeNa*~)
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Room for improvement
I don't know what method acting is, but even after reading the Wikipedia page I felt none the wiser. Could someone in the know improve the page so that Philistines like myself are enlightened. Thanks!
Similar page elsewhere?
There is also a page entitled "Method" - is this the same thing described differently?
Categories
This subject area is unknown to me, but I find it odd that there can't be any categories for it... Cburnett 04:31, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Method "acting"
Method isn't really a style of acting, now, is it? It's how the actor is trained and how they learn to act. If anything, the acting style related to the Method is naturalism, and the page title should reflect that. Cigarette 14:29, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
So, what is method acting?!
I agree with Phil-- I still have no clue what method acting is.
- Well, it isn't exactly the easiest thing to define. I suppose, with my limited but advanced-for-a-student-my-age knowledge, that it could be summed up as the acting technique in which the actor takes his emotion an "emotional memory" of emotion he has taken from personal experiences.--Theaterfreak64 02:05, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
POV?
The article seems to be overly enthusiastic about Method Acting. Perhaps it could be a little more NPOV?
