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:-). The naturalness and intelligence of those three is astonishing. It's as if

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tinear

In Reply to: RE: 1 Pacino = .654 Solonitsyn - that's the official exchange rate posted by Victor Khomenko on April 05, 2011 at 07:33:05

the Pacino, DeNiro, and Duval guys were beginners in comparison.
The key to acting is presence, i.e. one cannot act "substance."
Like the actors chosen by Tarr, Tarkovsky's choices erase the separation of observer and observed.

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They are actors as opposed to stars - Victor Khomenko 13:26:56 04/05/11 (1)
This subject has been discussed before, of the three in your current post only Duval is an actor, in the true sense of the word. Pacino is a caricature star, I am surprised many still like him. The Russian acting school is decidedly continental, of the three main actors in Stalker perhaps only Alisa has some stardom element, she was a prima donna, but still could act.

Another great Russian actress, limiting ourselves to Tarkovsky's work, is Terekhova, seen in his Mirror.
- Duvall's been terrible for years. The man who elevated, "True Confessions," and "Lonesome - tinear 08:09:55 04/06/11 (0)
  Dove" was the anomaly. The Pacino-style overactor of "The Apostle" and pretty much every other role since is the "real" Bobby. In other words, if there's a sprig about, he'll chew on it.
  American acting has "evolved" to the point wherein actors search for the defining moment in the script (nicely provided by screenwriters who know who makes decisions) or else they invent it: a few minutes when they can go red in the face, bulge a few neck veins, and "act."
  You know how it is painful to see a child's behavior change when it knows it has an audience? Same with bad actors. Everything is exaggerated. The audience can fall asleep, all the pieces of the personality will be thrown at you like shit at a wall.

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