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Pyat’s Theory of Acting
You may recall that famous scene from Dead Poet’s Society, in which Robin Williams plays a teacher who asks one of his students to read a famous essay on judging the quality of poetry by rating it in two different areas, and basing it’s greatness on the area it covers on a bar graph. He instructs the students to tear the essay from their books, and dance about on their desks like jackanapes, sounding their barbaric yawps to the golden sky-roof as they learn about love and loss and come-of-age.
Or something like that. I never did see the whole thing.
Well, forget that anyway. I rate actors in nearly the same way as the essayist rated poets – except I don’t go so far as to use numerals, and I admit the existence of a more intangible characteristic.
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You may recall that famous scene from Dead Poet’s Society, in which Robin Williams plays a teacher who asks one of his students to read a famous essay on judging the quality of poetry by rating it in two different areas, and basing it’s greatness on the area it covers on a bar graph. He instructs the students to tear the essay from their books, and dance about on their desks like jackanapes, sounding their barbaric yawps to the golden sky-roof as they learn about love and loss and come-of-age.
Or something like that. I never did see the whole thing.
Well, forget that anyway. I rate actors in nearly the same way as the essayist rated poets – except I don’t go so far as to use numerals, and I admit the existence of a more intangible characteristic.
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