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RE: Disagree: Bogart is often the only one on screen acting

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grinagog

In Reply to: RE: Ditto (nt) posted by Rod H. on March 19, 2008 at 07:59:43

he's "method acting" before Lee Strasburg even taught that style. Other film actors he's working with tend to be quite stiff and stagey by comparison; as if they'd just walked off a Broadway stage onto the sound set

Bogart adds the dimension to his acting we now take for granted in film + as such was years ahead of his time

Grins

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Yup. And then along came Mitchum and he added - tinear 06:45:31 03/20/08 (0)
a casual, off-the-cuff attitude. Mitch also made sex explicit for the first time in American cinema.
Uh....I think you're responding to me...not Rod... - TWB 00:02:39 03/20/08 (0)
I stand by my assertion....this is something that I've debated with other actors and teachers...Theater Arts was my major in college....I would have to say again that Bogart IS a personality....again he may have been effective in the role you pointed to....but a true actor transcends the role and makes you suspend the belief that they are playing the role and they become that character....The other actors I mentioned have all done this to greater and lesser varying degrees....attached is a scene with Tracy and Bergman in Jekyll and Hyde....Tracy insisted on little to no makeup...he simply became evil....THAT is what acting is......
- Tracy as Hyde... (Open in New Window)

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