What We Talk About When We Talk About Acting (or, I <3 Nic Cage)

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > What We Talk About When We Talk About Acting (or, I <3 Nic Cage)

doug fuckey: Jun 7, 2007; hella greenbacks

Good and bad acting can be determined solely on the actor's ability to pretend the empty paper cup they are holding actually is filled with coffee.

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doug fuckey: Jun 7, 2007; hella greenbacks

Yoshifan823 posted:

A Word about Transformation, or "gently caress The Oscars"

Very true. Transformation can take a lot of effort, especially in walking the line between sincere portrayal and parody, but have some of these otherwise talented actors walk into a Starbucks in a scene in these or any other movies, and they'll be standing around lifting paper cups to their lips and tilting them back, nodding while they chat, and for most of them you'll be thinking, "That cup isn't full of anything. There's nothing in it. Look how quickly and thoughtlessly they move it around. It's empty. They're holding an empty cup and trying to make us think it's not empty. But it is"

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