Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: How long before human actors are a dying breed?

maclean opened this issue on Aug 28, 2003 ยท 43 posts


dialyn posted Fri, 29 August 2003 at 10:51 AM

Throwing a faux person off a cliff is not acting. When I talk about real acting, I'm talking about someone who brings intelligence and thought to a role, who doesn't have to speak a word and you know their heart is breaking, who can give a glance and tell an entire story with their eyes. I'm not talking about the usual chase and smash films that require no acting....I'm talking about someone who has learned their craft and practices it with heart and mind. A great actor can help me imagine whole words with the sound of their voice and the way their body speaks .... a faux person cannot do that because there is no brain behind the eyes, no intelligence in the body other than that of the technicians. Smash 'em ups of the Arnold school are just animations with humans filling in for the cartoon figures. You might as well watch the coyote fall off the cliff as he pursues the road runner. Those films, as entertaining as they may be (rather boring to me but I guess you've figured that out) have little or nothing to do with acting.