What Constitutes As A Good Director?
What Constitutes As A Good Director?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1What Constitutes As A Good Director?
Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:34pmFor both theater and for film. What makes a good director, especially when it comes to getting great performances?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: What Constitutes As A Good Director?
Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:44pm
Bump.
Especially the acting question. Directors, what is your strategy for getting a performance out of your actors?
#2re: What Constitutes As A Good Director?
Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:50pm
An electric cattle prod and a direct line to the treasurer of the theater company with the power to stop checks.
#3re: What Constitutes As A Good Director?
Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:51pmTell them unless they cry on cue you'll kill their puppy.
#4re: What Constitutes As A Good Director?
Posted: 6/28/07 at 3:26pma good nosehair puller is great for getting a good cry out of an actor. Brenda Blethyn was practically bald-nostriled after filming "Secrets and Lies"
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: What Constitutes As A Good Director?
Posted: 6/28/07 at 3:41pm
"What makes a good director, especially when it comes to getting great performances?"
Hire extremely talented and intelligent actors, show them their marks on the floor, then sit back and bask in the accolades and awards.
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