Sunday, June 22, 2014

The Rough Theater and 6x1

I know we talked about this in class already, but I will blog away.

Old theater reminds film of its roots before technology. People entertained each other (as we still do today) but without the flashy effects. Costuming and props and maybe staging/choreography was about as flashy as it got.
In high school I had to read A Mid-Summer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, and then the whole school took a trip to an outdoor amphitheater to watch the performance. The performers would speak to the audience at times and use the steps along side us instead of just keeping to the stage.

Just the fact that theater has different stagings and settings reminds me that film does as well--there are studios and on-location shoots taking place everyday, many different times of day.
Yet, people are disrupted by out of the ordinary occurrences while experiencing these things. Why do we as movie/theater goers think that we're paying to see ACTORS be completely normal? The point of acting is to be able to put many different personas on. Why does this disturb us? Why are we so stuck in our own little realities? In many ways cinema and theater experiences can be a type of transcending meditation to export us from the stress of the day, and yet we don't take the opportunity by the hand most of the time.

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