ON ACTING: Language
Words are not written for the actor (by the writer) just to express a character's emotion. If emotional release were all that was involved in the effort to speak, people would simply groan or a wail or a bark. Expletives would mark the edge of human discourse.
Humans use words to convince other people. Actors must do the same.
Language--dialogue--is the human species' sophisticated way to logically maneuver the human landscape to their purposes. Language takes inner emotions to a higher and more functional purpose: to convert short term bursts of emotional energy into long-term functional instrumentality. Words converts inner emotional experience into logic, with the intent of convincing people to aid us in achieving long term goals.
Humans use words to convince other people. Actors must do the same.
Language--dialogue--is the human species' sophisticated way to logically maneuver the human landscape to their purposes. Language takes inner emotions to a higher and more functional purpose: to convert short term bursts of emotional energy into long-term functional instrumentality. Words converts inner emotional experience into logic, with the intent of convincing people to aid us in achieving long term goals.
posted by Cliff Osmond at 9:57 PM
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