Method Acting - The Movie ' Milk'

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Method Acting - the movie 'Milk' Method acting, or as it is sometimes simply known, the Method, is a technique used by actors. Method Acting is the search to find a moment of actual experience in your acting – a moment of living – as opposed to the outward appearance of living. It is thought to be the most realistic of techniques; it is the antithesis of the wooden actor and uses techniques such as sense and memory to achieve realism in acting. Actors who use the Method rely on using their own emotions from their past in order to bring new depth to a part. It is to make people believe in what they are acting by bringing out their feeling in acting. Some preliminary Goggling suggests that method acting involves the actor trying to "become" the character, to try to portray the character as they would truly be in private. In the movie named Milk, a story about Harvey Milk that tells about his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. Sean Penn as the starring star of Harvey Milk; perfectly indicate method acting in the movie. Always a chameleon actor, Penn completely transforms himself into a staggering range and variability of characters, from a stoner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High to a mentally disabled father in I Am Sam. In what is arguably his greatest performance yet, Penn himself is nowhere to be seen, as he becomes Harvey Milk, down to every last minute mannerism and quirk in his speech. Penn's transformation is startling. I’ve never seen smile lines on his face, but here in the movie, they are crevices and going deep; his voice is light, minus low tones. He's unprecedentedly giddy. There's anger, but it never festers — it's channelled into political action. In my opinion, Penn looked shockingly like Milk with dark wavy hair parted to one side and wore a tight T-shirt that

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