Acting

Really shitty explanation

So this is a really shitty explanation and history of acting as told by me.

So like, you know when you watch a movie or go see a play and there are some actors (I know there's also the term "actress" for girls but I think it's kinda acceptable now that everyone is just an actor regardless of gender, so when I say actor it's just gender neutral, just wanted to get that out there) that like are able to express real emotions. It's as if what's happening in like this make believe world is actually happening. And if like there's the need to cry, be angry, hurt, fall in love, and anything else is actually happening inside them. And they're able to do it immediately. Like if it's in a play, every night the shows on, they cry at the same point. Doesn't matter if there's only 2 shows or 50 shows. Night after night they can do it. Same in TV and Film. Like they just do it. Idk if you've ever been able to watch a film be made or a tv show, but like that scene you watched that's only a few seconds long or maybe 1 minute long took almost an entire day to film and you do take after take after take after take. No joke!!! And it's weird kinda because the director will call out something like "cue audio...camera....action" and then you're just expected to do it. They'll call out "cut" and then you turn around and either re-shoot again immediately and do it again or have to wait doing nothing for 10-20 minutes while they reset the camera and lights and audio to do it from a different angle and you have to go again. When you add in that like in a theater you have a lot of people watching you and in film you have this weird thing of like a camera looking at you and behind the camera are all these people doing something that you don't see when you watch a film. There's someone holding a boom microphone, there's someone who's role is to move cables around. There's 3 or 4 people doing things with lights. There's someone operating a camera. There's the director somewhere along with a few other people looking at a tv screen of you and not actually watching you and it's all weird. So yeah, how do you just do it, on cue?

So that's where my shitty history of acting comes in. So, it's happened always, but I guess at some point someone decided to take notice and there was a actor that every night was able to blush on stage. Her cheeks would turn red when her "lover" would come on and she'd have like real things happen to her. She'd get goosebumps n everything. And so this guy from Russia called Stanislavsky decided to try and come up with a technique so it could be taught to every actor like around the beginning of the 1900's. And soon actors were coming out of this school actually able to take words from a play and have real emotions about them instead of faking an emotion.

Gripping stuff huh??