thread: 2005-06-02 : Immersion
On 2005-06-02, Brendan wrote:
I'm going to bust a taboo and make a theatre-roleplaying connection here. Vincent, your stupid moron in (1) could have been Stanislavski, or Brando, or any drama teacher, or any drama student who went out and bought a Basic Set. It all derives from a flawed perception of Method acting: the belief that opaqueness will always trump transparency for quality of performance.
But as any worthwhile theatre professional will tell you, Method is bunk, and bad Method is a blinding horror, and it's better to avoid them both than risk the latter.
