Post your random thoughts.

Happy Leap Day, and happy 20th anniversary to An Extremely Goofy Movie .

Thank you. Yes it is a happy Leap Day. Especially since I get to relax on it. :)

x3 Oy vey!

There's a local business near me called April Piano Studio, and there's something about the way their sign is posted where I always just read the "April Piano" part.I keep thinking April Piano should be a character in a story, a Stage Name for a musician, or a stage name for a fictional musician in a story. Maybe I'll have to write a story she could be in.

Damn these tortilla chips are good. Actual corn flour, and I grabbed 3 bags: one BBQ flavored, other Tzatziki and third is like Cheese & Ham

Oh and some coca-cola zero sugar with vanilla flavor... I'm trying to cut down on things so both of these have less calories/harmful stuff. That's less, not non-existent.

Wow, nice.

Meanwhile, in my mind...

"Dear Mom. I hate you."

https://youtu.be/_ycvuZAYzyg

I'd totally like to see Eric Jacobson and David Rudman sing their version of the song.

"Happy Birthday Dear Tropers, Happy Birthday To You" sounds like a robot speaking

I want that custom Doom Eternal guitar.

Is there an opposite of Arc Fatigue, when a storyline goes by too quickly for the audience to enjoy?

It's Short, So It Sucks!?

Oh yeah.

I've always found it impressive how actors can act so in love and so committed while just being friends in real life. Or, even less.

Is it more for the money...or the art...

It's called professionalism.

How cruel! To imitate love only for a paycheck...

Well, sometimes it can turn into Romance on the Set.

To imitate love between two fictional characters who are not real and only exist onstage for a paycheck, you mean.

I'm a theatre major. I've taken acting classes. I've had to play a character in love before. It does not help the other actor to play the love interest if you, the actor, fall in love with them yourself. That's a behind the scenes disaster waiting to happen.

With that said, I'm going to paraphrase a Sanford Meisner concept called the actor's faith: "To be an actor is to accept the circumstances as untrue, yet believe them regardless when performing."

@Will So doublethink. Beyond the necessity to stretch the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief, you also have to suspend your own.

I've never cared for lying, but I do have a soft spot for acting. I realize that acting is just lying performatively, but I've often romanticized the profession as something into which you need some kind of sincerity to be truly good at faking love.

I mean, if you want to call it doublethink, then sure, it can be called doublethink, but I take umbrage with calling acting 'lying'. When you open the dictionary and look up 'acting,' you won't see a 'see also: lying' definition beneath the other ones.

Lying implies that the intention of telling the lie is deception. Sure, you can argue that convincing people that you're feeling an emotion that you don't really feel, or that a situation is happening even if it really isn't happening could be called deception, but most actors don't set out to convince the audience that the movies they're in or the emotions they felt are reality. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne didn't jump on the "we're totally in a situation, man!" bandwagon that certain members of the Matrix's audience started, Bogart and Bergman didn't try to convince anyone they were really in love.

Rather, an actor (or at least, an actor who portrays realistic scenes, which is what I think Key is talking about) hired to play a specific reality: 'sure this scene is totally absurd, but treat it as if it's really happening.' In regards to emotion specifically, most actors don't bullshit how they're feeling in any given scene. Rather, most of them either 1: use their memories of actual emotions they have felt to get the desired result (Strasberg's method), or 2: use a combination of imagination and research to reverse engineer how they would feel if put in the situation (literally every other acting teacher who was Group Theatre-adjacent, and the one I personally use more often than not).

Also, Philosophy Tube (himself an actor) has a video where he touches on (among other things) the distinction between acting and lying. His point is a little different from mine ("Actors use the word 'truth' in a different way; it's more like 'emotional truth' rather than 'literal truth.'" from 5:15), and he demonstrates this while acting.

I suddenly have the urge to watch Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms.

I've heard a story about a man who tells his lover lies to protect her, not out of defense for himself.

I wondered if I believed that, because of course, if she found out, he would lose her.

He's not an actor by trade, but he's good at it. The only thing he gains from it though is her love, not money.

Most people don't see those as the same thing, though.

Aaaand now we've changed topics and exited my wheelhouse. Ah well, I still have two more cents.

There's major parts of that story that would color my interpretation of it ("what is he protecting her from" being the big one, and "how exactly is he lying" being not far behind) that your retelling doesn't include. As it stands, however, it doesn't seem like his motive is protection, but rather that it's what he tells himself to morally justify deceiving her so she'll stay with him.

In my view, the man is not an actor because he is not performing for someone. He is deceiving someone.

Edited by WilliamRadarStorm on Mar 1st 2020 at 11:39:19 AM

People are entirely too casual about spilling spoilers on the internet.

This clip of Nancy and Grace was only uploaded 3 weeks ago, and yet has over 1 million views. It could be because of the interesting nature of the video and thumbnail.

Edited by jessicadicicco610 on Mar 2nd 2020 at 2:27:19 AM