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To: ArGee
I suspect that film acting and stage acting are as different as swimming and SCUBA diving.

You are correct, but competent actors do both. Most well known Hollywood actors do some stage work to sharpen their skills, and nearly all British actors perform on stage.

The problem I see in Hollywood is not in production or acting; it is in the scripts. Most are pathetic. Even blockbuster movies with expensive special effects are painful to watch a second time. Science fiction is the worst offender.

the other category of bad script is the one in which all the characters are rotten, the situation is rotten, the aftertaste is rotten. Who wants to pay money to spend an hour and a half with people you would edge away from in the subway?

49 posted on 05/07/2003 1:59:43 PM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
The problem I see in Hollywood is not in production or acting; it is in the scripts.

I was speaking to that when I mentioned "Man of La Mancha." Nothing wrong with that script.

Shalom.

82 posted on 05/08/2003 1:01:23 PM PDT by ArGee (I did not come through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man... - Gandalf)
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