--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > <snip> > > > > > > > > TM teachers are told what they should be > > > > feeling during various steps of the puja, I understand. /shrug. > > > > > > Being instructed in what to feel makes absolutely > > > no sense to me, I have to say, in any context. > > > > Never done any acting, have you? Most actors don't just > > assume an expression. > > Did quite a bit of it in my younger days (not > professionally). That's the "Method" school of > acting, and a minority of actors use it (albeit > some very, very good ones). The technique is > to re-experience emotions they themselves have > felt in the past. It's more complicated than > it sounds and takes a lot of training. Plus > which, it's in the context of portraying a > character who is feeling those emotions. >
It's the only way I know how to act unless I'm playing the role of a well-known cliche like Stan Laurel. Then I imagine what it feels like to be him and his mannerisms just come to me. Used to do a pretty good impression when I was skinny. Now, Ollie is more my speed... > It didn't appeal to me at all as an acting > technique, so I never studied it or used it. > > I could certainly *act the part* of a person > feeling deep devotion, but it wouldn't be what > I would call sincere. And I've have to act > the part of a person who was feeling deep > devotion but not making a big of show of it > for an audience. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
