MAKING AN ACTION OF SPEECH A. Reading of the lines, no matter how intelligent or how beautiful, is only a part of your responsibility. B. One may be motionless, but, nevertheless, be in genuine action. Often physical immobility is the direct result of an intense action.” This expands our definition of stage action to mean something more than movement and physical activity.
Shawshank Redemption-Courage by Thomas McKernan "The Shawshank redemption is a film about courage. Discuss. In your answer include at least one of the film scenes that add drama to the film including mis-en-scene." Frank Darabont, a master of his craft meticulously and carefully constructs the film The Shawshank Redemption. As director the nuances of his genius are processed through many stages to reach an elite level of cinema very few have had the privilege to ascertain.
Nowra uses a range of effective dramatic techniques in his script Cosi, to highlight to the audience the central themes of love and loyalty, and acceptance and understanding that mental illness and sanity are separated by only a fine line. Both themes are important and significant even in today’s context. Nowra uses a turbulent context, changing setting, the transformation of Lewis’ character, humorous dialogue and at times explosive direction to emphasis the pivotal nature of love and our sanity. The initial and most dominant dramatic technique used by Nowra to vividly and visually depict to the audience that love and our compassion for the “others” in our society, is the changing set. Throughout the play light is used to symbolise the
In critical essays, some of the most important features for the writer to develop are: critical insight (non-obvious ideas or observations that you believe may assist the viewer or reader in “discovering” the films more completely and complexly); originality (putting your own personality and “voice” in your writing); and credibility (your ability to convince the reader that your ideas are sound and interesting). One of the most important things to keep in mind when viewing or considering these films is the question of what you think the director was trying to “say” to the audience with his movie. A movie is usually a visual representation of a narrative story, after all, and if so it should be reasonably coherent and preferably have a “point”
Clive Wearing Clive Wearing has one of the worst cases of amnesia ever recorded. A renowned conductor living in London, he was at the peak of his profession when he contracted a virus in 1985. Clive is now 67 years old and living in a brain injury unit where he has constant supervision. Clive's descent into brain damage came frighteningly quickly one weekend in March 1985 when he returned home from work looking flushed and feverish. On Saturday his headaches started.
Imagine a healthy man, sixty years old, recently retired, with many years left to spend with his wife, four children, ten grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Then one day he begins experiencing difficulty swallowing and slurred speech. After being told by his daughter that these could be symptoms of a stroke, he turns to his doctor for answers. As his swallowing and speech worsen, each diagnostic test is inconclusive. Finally, after several months of increasing frustration and decreasing health, he is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
In the 30 days he has gone from 185lbs to 210lbs. Cholesteral has went up 60 points. BMI or body mass index has gone from 11% to 18%, and his liver has turned to fat. Morgan is now 2X the risk of heart failure, had horrible mood swings and got so addicted that he felt sluggish and sad until his next meal and suffered from headaches. Every Dr. that went through this journey with Morgan and kept track of his health are stunned and that people shouldnot eat fast food and one Dr. even says that Morgan should not eat fast food for one whole year to give his body time to recuperate.
Lend Me a Tenor Critique There are many elements that make Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor a great production. The production Lend Me a Tenor has both the negative and positive aspects. The analysis is based upon how well the theme was portrayed, the portrayal of the play as a farce, the quality of the script, and the characters’ disposition before and after seeing the performances. Also I will further analyze all the elements of theater of the director’s decisions, the actors’ performances, the costume and scenic design, the lighting, and the properties being utilized to formulate my opinion of the overall production. The theme in the play explores love, courage, deception, and marriage.
Incredible is lost. He has become over weight and has lost a lot of his happiness. Fifteen years has passed since he was sued and because of a lack of money was laid off from his normal work. Now Mr. Incredible works for an insurance company as a claims adjuster and you can tell that he is just not happy with his current identity and misses the way his life used to be.
As a founder of the Moscow Arts Theatre Stanislavski further developed this method acting system in an environment which encouraged him to be creative, much different from the life he led growing up. He developed his approach through watching, directing and acting himself. It was through this vast experience that Stanislavski gained the knowledge and indeed need, to form a systematic approach to acting. As he progressed as a performer and director and critic Stanislavski further refined his system of acting. This makes it the ever more tragic that great parts of his works were lost through mistranslation and cutting and changing by American copyrighter Elizabeth Hapgood.