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Ian McKellen says stage acting is much harder because the audience can see your entire body so you have to have full control of your whole body for the full duration whereas with film acting, you only need to control the part of the body that is in frame and only while the camera is rolling.
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Do you agree?
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You also can't afford to do mistakes in stage acting. It's obviously harder.
Bump. I too watched this video after it appeared on my youtube feed.
Yeah, that makes sense.
It's Sir Ian McKellen, you prick.
the standards are far lower for stage acting because most of the audience in a big theatre can't see the detailed movements of your face very well. All that really matters is your voice acting.
you can say that film acting is easier because you have more takes and chances , but if you compare the final product the level of acting in film is usually much higher than the level of acting on stage.
That was before cgi, I'd say it's harder to react convincingly to green screen ninjas and backgrounds, not to mention it makes you look really silly, which is probably how normal people would feel when reciting Shakespeare on stage
if actors have to consciously contort their faces to show emotion, they're not good actors
No shit. You can't cut and splice performances on stage, you have to nail it THE FIRST TIME EVERY TIME. This is why people used to respect all those people who worked with the Shakespeare company and classically trained actors.
he's probably right
stage acting is more of an actor's thing
movies are more about the director
Wow, I watched that about an hour ago.
stage
>can't fuck up
>performing for 90mins-2+ hours
>have to have entire script memorized
>people are paying to stare at you
>they see everything
>have to basically yell while looking like you aren't
>have to do all it every day
film
>often encouraged to fuck up until you do something coo
>get dozens of chances to get it right
>get WSs and CUs to dial in performance
>once you get performance, you never have to do it again
>surrounded by a crew being paid to make you look as good as possible
>only have to do a few lines at any time
>only have to know the lines you're doing that day
>spend most of the day loitering around having banter and only work for a few minutes every hour
being a film actor is the best job in the world
being a stage actor seems like an actual nightmare
I think it's easier to get into the mindset of theatrical performing than it is interacting with invisible objects/people.
Something tells me actors are just brilliant manipulators since birth. I don't understand how such a job can make so much money.
Don't forget
Stage
>Get paid peanuts performing every single night giving it your all
Film
>Make billions of dollars because you can do the DreamWorks eyebrow thing and functionally just pretend to be yourself with a different name
You don't even have to learn dialogue when you're acting for the screen, you can just say one line, cut, they tell you the next line, they roll, you say it, cut, and so on. Or just have a cue card or tape your lines to the actor you're talking to like Brando did. Film actor is honestly the easiest thing in the world.
>movies are more about [shekel committee's trying to maximize profit at expense of story, vision, and reality]
Film is dead as an art.
>I don't understand how such a job can make so much money.
You only know of the 0.00001% that make "much money".
The vast majority of actors make no money at all.
ITT: zoomers finding out that theatre is an actors medium while film is a directors medium
>Tfw Keanu gave the lion's share of his pay on the matrix trilogy to the behind the scenes cast
>Tfw such a Chad he doesn't even like talking about
I'm in love with this man
The vast majority also suck.
>what is a playwright
But I feel like it's easier to stay in a character while on stage. I can't imagine trying to "method act" or maintain any realism when there's dozens of lights, crew, sounds, cuts, etc during filming.
Far more often actors have to act according to a character written by a playwright, vs so many films where committees bend a script or screenplay to "make this character more like George Clooney" so yeah stage acting is harder because acting is necessary
Stage acting is easier in the sense that you can be lost in your character with almost no interruptions, while with film you should be able to switch on and off for hours and hours for every take and deliver every single time while cameras are in your face, microphones above your head, lights all around you and about 50 people moving all around the set at all times. Couple that with an autistic director that makes 30 takes on average and I wouldn't say it's "easier" than stage acting.
Probably depends on every actor.
>I can't imagine trying to "method act" or maintain any realism when there's dozens of lights, crew, sounds, cuts, etc during filming.
particularly since 90% of the time on a production is just faffing about. Like the idea of having a crewmember pushing DDL in a wheelchair through the craft services line on the set of My Left Foot seems like such a goof.
Spends all day just loitering around acting like a retard just to "stay in character" for the 50 minutes in a 10 hour day you actually spend in front of camera.
exactly. which is why I think Christian Bale is 100% justified in his freak out during Terminator Salvation.
imagine trying to portray a PTSD'd John Connor in an apocalyptic wasteland--just to have some productionfag screwing up stuff in the background. had to be infuriating.
He wasn't playing a character in Extras. This is actually what he's like
this is why British, Irish and Australian actors dominate Hollywood, they learn the craft on stage and are therefore more reliable than some dumbass waiting tables in LA
>Do you agree?
You know what? I'm inclined to just take Ian McKellen's word on anything acting related. He's kind of an expert.
>Like the idea of having a crewmember pushing DDL in a wheelchair through the craft services line on the set of My Left Foot seems like such a goof.
What if theres stairs? You'd have to tell ddl to knock it off lol
I've worked with amateur stage actors and they're usually excellent and far easier (and cheaper) to work with.
>implying acting is hard
>implying a literal retard couldn't be an actor
Reminds me of how fucking pissed everyone constantly was with Jim Carrey during his Man on the Moon shit
get that shirt lifter ahht of my thread m8 & listen to a real acter
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emlia?
This. He would know a lot better than me.
During the filming of Marathon Man (1976), Laurence Olivier, who had lost patience with method acting two decades earlier while filming The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), was said to have quipped to Dustin Hoffman, after Hoffman stayed up all night to match his character's situation, that Hoffman should "try acting... It's so much easier."
Based Larry
Kek at Americañoes being so obsessed with English titles.