Working Presents: The Madness Behind 'The Method'
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Marlin Brando - A Realistic Performance Style
Actor most responsible for popularizing this kind of realistic performance style is marlin brando. He learned that the actor has to earn the right to play the role. They have to enlarge their soul to a point where it is capacious enough to play the character. And you do that through very rigorous research. Research means reading books about the part, but also might mean going to the metr ton museum of art. Youre gong to look at paintings of europeans from the eighteenth century so you can see how they held their body. You're going to try to practise the behaviors of the character you got to iron in a shirt while you're going os. Pend all night iron
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