In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.
Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.
All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.
In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.
Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
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