#1
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:52pm
How do you do it? I can make the sounds btu my facoial expressions look more like I'm dying and no tears. Any tips?
#2
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:55pm
Think of somethine really really sad. Something that would really make you cry. And if you have a hard time of it, go really really deep. Unless you're playing a character, then I would suggest you just really feel for your character and imagine yourself in his/her situation.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#3
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:55pm
what a request
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#4
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:56pm
I've heard of people pinching themselves or thinking horrible thoughts to get themselves to cry. It might be something you need to practice.
#5
Posted: 12/19/04 at 8:57pm
I almost got it! I was reading two monologues-1) someone who just missed saving their best friend from commiting suicide 2)someone who's fatehr just died.
#6
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:00pm
Yeah. Just really put yourself into those roles. Imagine what your reaction would be if those things happened to you. (BTW- i apologize if those thing HAVE happened to you)
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#7
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:01pm
They haven't, thank god. I'm starting to actually get into character and I'm still a bit choked up.
#8
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:01pm
You shouldn't cry in a monologue/scene unless you get a real impulse to do it. It comes off as fake most of the time. Don't do it unless it's real.
#10
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:03pm
hahahahaahaha
sorry that made me laugh My Fair Lady
sorry that made me laugh My Fair Lady
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#11
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:10pm
Lady, those momolauges (sp) are a bit depressing, no?
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#13
Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:31pm
My personal preference is to ignore acting directions like that. It distracts the actor from truly reacting to what is going on. I'm trained in Meisner, so that's where my ideas come from.
#15
Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:48am
Well for one of my characters (coincidently Tamora from Titus Andronicus) my teacher told me to think of the problems going on in Iraq(beheadings and families asking for their loved ones lives). My teacher was telling me that this monologue described the situations happening today quite well. And evidently it worked. I cried. I couldn't get passed "Stay Roman bretheren!" and I burst into tears, but still in character. If you can find the right place to cry or whatever then do it. Keep in mind crying may detract from the scene.
Also I found a monologue from Stone Cold Dead Serious by Adam Rapp that makes me feel emotional.
I think if you're an emotional person(which I am) it may or may not be as easy to access that part of you. I say experiment and see what works for you. Just keep in mind that crying may detract from the scene or character sometimes.
Also I found a monologue from Stone Cold Dead Serious by Adam Rapp that makes me feel emotional.
I think if you're an emotional person(which I am) it may or may not be as easy to access that part of you. I say experiment and see what works for you. Just keep in mind that crying may detract from the scene or character sometimes.
"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear
#16
Posted: 12/21/04 at 3:26am
Just pull the hair in your nose, if you have any, and if not take a hanky and put some Vics Vapo rub on it and smear it under your eyes. You will tear up like that. Or you might just try acting.
PEACE.
#17
Posted: 12/21/04 at 3:52am
yea u shouldnt cry unless it actually really comes to you. even if it says so in the scene/mono dont do it unless u r really feeling it otherwise it really will come off as fake. i also am trained in meisner and the best way is to use ur own experiences or how u would feel if u were in that situation. but me being all emotional now as a young woman can just read a really sad story/scene/mono and tears will come to my eyes.....good luck!!! (try working off of someone else as well)
#18
Posted: 12/21/04 at 9:05am
The best actors in the world are the ones who have no walls up between themselves and their audiences. Actors who wear their hearts on their sleeves. Being emotionally connected to the world around you and feeling everything fully is what it's all about - and LISTENING. The best thing an actor can do is to listen to his/her scene partner - listen for the clues given to you by the writer. Its all there. Just be open to it and whatever you do, for God's sake, don't TRY to create an emotional state if you are not truly feeling it. Let it come to you. Its like "anger" in a scene...the best way to play anger (or NOT play it, but BE it) is to get clear. focused. Anger is not about shouting or roughness. its about a cold, steadied, clear kind of focus you bring to the character. Acting is SO much less complicated than people want to make it out to be.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#19
Posted: 12/21/04 at 9:39am
Thing of Dubya for four more years. You'll shed real tears.
'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston
#21
Posted: 12/21/04 at 10:04am
One of the best pieces of acting advice I ever received was, "Fighting back the tears is always more powerful than the tears themself."
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#22
Posted: 12/21/04 at 10:13am
those stage directions are nothing more than suggestions.... you don't have to follow them at all if you don't want to.
#23
Posted: 12/21/04 at 10:25am
I guess I am from the school of thought that while you are in character, you should BE in character. Whatever the character is feeling should be sad enough to proprel yourself into tears. If you aren't in character, and thinking about how you are going to make youself cry, then you aren't doing the part justice. Get onstage, and BE the person you are playing. More times then less, you will be able to pull of a real cry, b/c you are actually feeling their pain.
I was told in many an acting class to not bring any of your own feelings into a crying scene.
I was told in many an acting class to not bring any of your own feelings into a crying scene.
#24
Posted: 12/21/04 at 11:40am
It can become dangerous if your "element of truth" for the piece is something very personal, such as a deceased parent. It's best not to choose something like that.
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