SP 472 American Film History II, Week 8

8/9/2019 SP 472 American Film History II, Week 8

1/21

Differences between

stage and screen

acting Physicality

Real time vs. screen

time

Photogenic features

Acting

Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet


2/21

Actors in Formalist

Films vs. Realistic

Films

Acting

Sin CityThe Departed


3/21

Film Actors

Marilyn Monroe

Clint Eastwood

Julia Roberts

Tom Cruise

Acting


4/21

Shooting out of

sequence - does not

have to sustain aperformance

Looping or ADR

Stunt & Body

Doubles

Little or no rehearsal

Acting

Flashdance


5/21

Personality Star

Actor Star

Icons

Acting

Pretty Woman


6/21

Personality StarActing


7/21

Actor StarActing

Kathy Bates


8/21

IconsActing


9/21

Styles of Acting

External mastery

Acting

Laurence Olivier


10/21

Styles of Acting

Internal reality

Acting

Marlon Brando


11/21

Style of the film

What kind of

camera is used?

How is it

photographed?

What is it about?

Acting

Moulin Rouge, The Others, Dogville & Bewitched


12/21

Casting

Typecasting

Acting

Kal Penn in

Superman Returns

and 24


13/21

Casting

Recognizable stars

Acting

The Namesake

Erin Brockovich


14/21

Casting

Recognizable stars

Acting

Monsters Ball


15/21

Casting

Amateurs

Acting


16/21

What kind of actors?

How are they treated by the director?

How much editing? Are they allowed to speak without alot of cuts?

Does the film highlight one actor or the ensemble?

Does the star change from film to film or are theyalways symbolizing one thing?

What is the cultural connection of the starsiconography to the movie?

What is the style of acting? Realistic or stylized?

Why was the actor cast?

Acting


17/21

On the Waterfront

1954

Dir. Elia Kazan

Starring Marlon Brando, KarlMalden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva MarieSaint

Oscars: Best Actor, SupportingActress, Picture, Director,

Screenplay Budd Schulberg),Editing, Art Direction andCinematography

Filmed in 36 days in Hoboken

Parallels with HUAC Hearingswhere Kazan and Cobb testified

Acting


18/21

Acting


19/21

The 1950s The Blacklist & the Hollywood

Ten - 1950

Interviewed 41 people

working in Hollywood whobecame friendlywitnesses who namedpeople with leftistsympathies

Some of these people

named others and somerefused to cooperate &were jailed

Those who refused werecalled the Hollywood Ten -mostly writers

Alvah Bessie, Herbert J. Biberman, Lester Cole,

Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John

Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz,

Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo


20/21

The 1950s Snowball effect into The

Blacklist or those who would

not be hired by any studio

320 actors, writers andothers including

Jules Dassin, Lee Grant, John

Garfield, Jack Gilford, Martin

Ritt, Burgess Meredith, Zero

Mostel, Stella Adler, Judy

Holliday, Pete Seeger, Orson

Bean, Will Geer, Jean Muir,

Gale Sondergaard

Langston Hughes & Ronald Reagan


21/21

The 1950s Kazan & Schulberg were

friendly witnesses

Kazans Honorary Oscar in 1999

caused protests and controversy Abraham Polonsky, blacklisted in the

50s, has this to say: I hope

somebody shoots him. It will be an

interesting moment in what otherwise

promises to be a dull evening.

Arthur Miller (Kazan directedDeath of a Salesman & AllMy

Sons on Broadway) broke with

Kazan & wrote The Crucible in

response

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SP 472 American Film History II, Week 8