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I feel the same it's not a debate that's so black and white it depends on a lot of things at the end of the day as long as the actor is immersed in their role, then so are we
Exactly! This skill inspired me to take an acting class, where I learned about script analysis and subtext. The subtext is critical-in acting, it guides the emotions an actor brings to a scene. In real life, subtext aligns with the subconscious emotional motivators behind our actions. I began practicing this constantly to consciously control my emotions. Over time, I achieved that control, but there was a downside: my emotional responses became unnatural in real-life situations. As a musician, I also found it harder to feel music intuitively, as my emotions were now under conscious control. I realized I didn’t enjoy this state. I craved the natural, reactive emotional flow that acting had disrupted. Since acting wasn’t a deep passion for me, just a curious pursuit, I decided it wasn’t worth the trade-off. Ultimately, I quit the acting class and returned to my natural emotional state. The experience taught me valuable lessons about the mechanics of the mind, emotions, and the involuntary systems that make us human.
Micheal ja white, who worked on the film with Heath Ledger, said that Ledger wasn't even doing the method acting, he would ask them what they thought about this or that. when he was trying to come up with the joker on different scenes and that Ledger would crack jokes when they yelled cut.
Well, Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month to get into the character. He even once asked Christian Bale to really beat him up in a scene. If that's not method acting I don't know what it is.
@@miguelvidalmartinez9456 Well method you don't break character even between takes. If you look at the behind the scenes footage he was skateboarding around checking with the staff on how he should move and so on. I think it he is more technical but he stated in some interviews that Nolan gave him a lot of creative freedom to explore the character so he took a deep dive and dabbled with a method-esque approach. Almost like a hybrid just like how Bale does it. What was said was his death was due to a toxic mix of prescription drugs but it could have just been a PR move because there is footage of him partying it up when his wife was expecting. If any of that is true or false makes no difference. A persons private life is their private life. He was a hell of an actor that will be studied for as long as cinema exists.
There is no better, it's just what moves you. 99% of viewers couldn't pick the difference if they were given random movies they didn't know to choose from and pick which was which
I've never seen videos like this. This is fantastic. It has so many applications whether you are a cinemaphile, aspiring director/actor, etc. This can be utilized in so many ways and is damn entertaining. Automatic sub.
I don't quite understand why you contrast Method and "natural acting". Method is Lee Strasberg? And what is Stella Adler? Sanford Meisner? Michael Chekhov? To summarize, all these are different schools that originated from Stanislavsky, who wanted to make acting "natural". Please clarify what you are talking about.
Agreed. He kinda plays fast and loose with the term Method. And I have never heard "Natural Acting" as a term before (at first, I thought he meant Naturalism... like from the late 1800s, which was basically Realism on steroids, but since he chose examples from films all the acting is more or less "realistic"). I mean, he gets the point across, but he does kinda run roughshod over some rather nuanced concepts.
I personally love both the Method Acting and the Natural, they are both equally good even though they have great differences. In one you're temporarily becoming someone else unaware of the real world around you, only living in the movie itself. In the other you are yourself fully aware of the real world around you trying to portray a character in the best way you can by being yourself. I personaly think you can use one of them, or even both.
I love both method acting and natural acting you can use both to get the work done. I love acting very very much I just love to be on set acting to tell a real story
Natural Acting definitely! Hey man I'm new to the channel and I've always been really good with voices/impressions and stuff. I always thought of becoming an actor growing up I even took some classes but that years ago. So I'm trying to get the ball rolling again and get better at the craft can you give me some critical pointers to Use and to Watch out For and what to do to keep the Tools Sharpened? Much Love and God Bless Ya'll
I was in plays in high school even got a standing ovation for my role in the play they did Little Women. So I like Natural acting cause I like that in the moment type of vibe. But this video was really good. Method acting I like it too BUT I'm not that good! LOL
Some roles require method acting because they are difficult and complex and the actor needs to feel them so much. characters like Joker and Szpilman and Daniel Plainview. in the end the quality of acting depends on the actor and his role. Some roles need natural acting because their depth appears through that.
The first time I watched TDK and Joker appears I was hooked by him and believe in every words he says and rooting for him to win that's how great Heath Ledger performance is
I feel like there's a fine line in which some roles were great because the method acting allowed an already talented actor to enbody a role they couldn't have naturally played however, I also do believe that method acting allows for less skilled actors to pretend that they can when in reality if they were only allowed to naturally act they couldn't. TL;DR: I feel like actors who are great at natural acting can use method acting for some roles. Unskilled actors should practice natural before trying method.
I respect the effort that method actors do for certain roles. Christian Bale in The Fighter might be one of the best examples, to the point where standing right next to the real Dicky Ekerlund, the two were practically interchangeable. However, it takes a genuine talent for a natural actor to be able to get into a role before the director says “action” and to put that on pause when the director says “cut”. The energy involved in that is underrated. One thing you didn’t mention in this video that I hope you’ve mentioned in the other videos is the tool of “sense memory”. That seems to be the key for natural actors to be able to draw out some of those emotional performances you used as examples, especially from Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. The ability to draw from actual life experience and channel it into their role, it’s a catharsis that makes the role more personal without completely immersing into it the way a method actor would. That’s why Viola’s tears and pain are so moving in that scene, because they come from a real place, and it makes you appreciate not just her performance, but her as a person.
From that first example I prefer natural acting because I felt that. You want ppl to FEEL the emotional beats in a piece of art. It’s the difference between playing all the exact right notes on the sheet music & playing with emotion. The emotional performance is more indelible & therefore much more memorable.
It's never about the approach, it's whatever works for the actor. Secondly, you can't compare performances - not in a serious discussion, which I can see this is not.
I think good actors, regardless of their approach, feel the emotion and act on it. Perhaps for some method acting allows them to do that more effectively, but at a high cost. With practice, we can easily feel an emotion without also invoking the mental baggage and story that we ordinarily attach to that emotion. Which means we can also move out of that emotion quickly at the end of a scene. It's the stories we tell ourselves about an emotion that keep us trapped within it and causes us harm, not the emotion itself. All the Natural actors you showed are feeling the emotion in the moment, they're not just acting it, however, they are also not attached to that emotion. Personally, I agree that this always makes for a better performance. This is because while they can feel it and draw on it, making their acting more convincing,, they are not 'possessed' by the emotion so can therefore make rational artistic decisions. Acting that always feels contrived to me is when the person acts the emotion without feeling it, no matter how well done, it always feels wrong. There are too many unconscious micro expressions etc that come along with an emotion that aren't possible to convincingly act (at least on camera, in a theatre this wouldn't be a problem) and therefore comes across as incongruent and makes the performance unconvincing. Granted not everyone will pick up on this, my husband doesn't but he openly admits his EQ is somewhat lacking.
It really depends. If you’re able to rehearse before filming, you’ll get a good sense of who they are, how they take direction and the type of direction that works well for them. Any direction you give, keep it simple and direct. They need to understand what you are wanting. Along with this YOU need to practice being able to give constructive changes which are easy to understand. It’s not just on them, it’s also on you.
You first need to have a laser-focused vision of what it is you actually want. If you have that, then you should be able to explain it in the purest terms.
Theirs an argument Neither one is better than other. But theirs argument one method of acting might better suited for a particular role. For example if an actor is doing a major biopic where has to play a real life person. He might have do deeper dive of that historical figure and to really capture and keep hold of that version of the figure for long periods of time until the shoot ends. Going Method might be the way to go if the actor is afraid losing the essence of the figure their playing if they don’t stay in it
As an actor I kind of do a mix of a lot of things . Which is Natural , Method, Action Verbs , and laban efforts . My approach is like a gumbo just a mix of different things😊
I like the video, but I'm not an actor or study this, so I think in acting performance when it's or isn't working on film. All the examples worked in a extraordinary way. Perhaps it should had put scenes when the method acting wasn't working.
I think it depends on the actor and the specific kind of role you're talking about. If I were an actor I'd go for natural acting, I personally like better when an actor plays a role naturally in a way that you think you're seeing the real person and not the character. I don't like overacting and fakeness that can be frequently spotted with method acting, or even worse in drama theater acting where it's all fake and you see that they are pretending.
Yea, it's more about the actor and the outcome. Daniel Day-Lewis utilized the method responsibly and respectably for the crew. Natural acting has phenomenol outcomes too. The best for many would probably be somewhere inbetween, just enough to be immersed.
COMPARING the first 3 people of the video, both performances were good but the denzel washington one was more captivating me. I couldn't keep my eyes off that scene.
While I enjoy your videos I do have to say one thing; Heath did not use method acting, my obsession at one point lead me to being very involved with The Dark Knight and the behind the scenes and making of it and (iirc) fellow actors said that Heath was a delight to work with. Did he take the role to some extremes to get into character? Yes, of course, we all know that, but he did not continue to play the role heavily outside of filming
So from what I understand, you're saying that natural acting uses the actors natural abilities, looks, and other natural inclinations like accent to the scenes advantage while in method acting they have to change to suit their character?
neither method or natural are good / bad approaches. the main things are how well do you know the character and the given context surrounding a scene? also, how deeply can you get into the character during any given scene? if you can accomplish both these things, either approach will get you oscar nods.
if possible,, maybe blend the two techniques together. If you have a lot of time before you have to perform. Maybe spend a couple of days in character. If possible a week in character. Live in character,, for a few hours every day. But I don’t think there’s any need to go to set in character. Especially if you’ve done your homework.
Both. An actors are actually in the limit of their imagination knew how to portray, natural acting is actually limit of an actor can do the role: but in method acting, they test the their own limits , acting unbeknownst to their limitation. That is my own opinion.
Living in character seems less “method” and more use of play. Method specifically uses your past trauma to recall emotions for the present moment. This can be called “emotional recall” or “affective memory”. This can be unsafe on set, not only for the actor, but those around that actor because the psyche can blur the lines of that moment. You can achieve “truthful” or as you labeled “natural” acting by using your imagination that would be in line with a Meisner or Stella approach. Someone like Daniel day Lewis takes a year or More to craft that character. From voice, to physicality, etc it’s a deeply layered character which is why we revere his work. Dustin slapping Merrill is method. Jared sending things to cast mates is propaganda marketing, and it worked, as we are still talking about it 😂
Oh I thought by natural acting you meant actors who can relate to their characters on a deep level and therefore can truly get their emotions flowing. Like Liam Neeson in The Grey for example.
Agree. I think most experienced actors worth their salt develop their own, personalized toolkit called Whatever Works. Sometimes they pull a technique from one school or another, or they lean more Method or Classical or whatever, but ultimately they use what helps them get the job done.
OK, I don't get your point. Is it that Natural Actors are better than Method actors because they can give a good performance at will? And conversely Method Actors are inferior because they have to use an exotic time consuming system to give a good performance?
Like Ranbir Kapoor said every character comes with its own method and beggage and style. there is not a particular formula to it. If u trap yourself in a formula. U become repetitive in your performances
I like it better natural acting because since I was 10 years old and doing theater, I learned to fake cry and I like it much more to look as realistic as possible, method acting you can't do that that well
Couple things: I think the method acting is better for some people, whereas natural acting is better for others. - I also think that Jared Leto did all of that weird creepy stuff To get other people into his character, not him. Joker would never.
Some roles just demand method acting, I don't see how anyone plays joker, pennywise or the Grinch with natural acting. Natural favors more humane scenes, but that psychotic or manic type character demands method acting,
I've always liked the Natural acting approach never the method acting for me it's the natural acting I've been an actor for many years now and I always believed and followed this one rule I myself have followed always when the director says action I turned into the character I was playing and when he said cut I would just be my real life self again till it was time to play my character again so natural acting has always worked for me alot of those actors who followed the natural acting I've watched and admired the others who followed method acting I've never watched of followed everyone knows about Daniel day Lewis and Denzel Washington denzel is the one I've watched & followed for many years I'm glad that he's always been a natural actor he's the best by far now I know why because he's followed the natural acting method however Daniel Day Lewis did play a great bill the butcher in gangs of new York 2004 that was an amazing performance that's the only one he's done that I admired him for
U always talk about Jared Leto who is METHOD ACTOR that he hurts his fellow actors yes you are right it is bad thing but do u know that DANIEL DAY LEWIS is also a method actors and he never hurts anybody. U said method actor hurts himself yes they hurts themselves because they devoted to craft and that is there commitment And natural acting is also not wrong its there commitment towards craft to do in natural way. And one more thing acting is not a job it is art And actor is an artist .
Not a single time did you explain where the difference can be seen. All you did, for all one can know, is line up a bunch of scenes, seemingly random, and claim they are examples of the 2 methods. If dislikes were not hidden, this video would be at least 30% dislikes because nobody is that daft to think you actually know what you're talking about. From a content creator perspective, though, I have to give it to you. You found a way to get views with the least amount of effort, and I do respect that, on a human level. But on the content itself, this video is full of hot air.
These are bad comparisons. If your going to compare methad acting to natural you can't use actors playing normal characters .Compare two scenes of actors both playing a crazy person or two people both playing a person with a different dialect or from a different time period from the actors. Showing Jim Carrey transforming him self into someone to get all his mannerisms and Jeff Daniel's playing someone that doesn't make him change how he talks and he can just be himself doesn't work.
Too often method acting is used as an excuse by men behaving badly. I've never heard of a woman going method because she'd be labeled as difficult and probably unemployed.
What on earth is this nonsense? Method and Natural are not mutually exclusive. What DDL does combines the best of both. That's why Denzel couldn't do in his dreams, what DDL does in his films. Denzel is great, but DDL is on another stratosphere altogether.
No no HEATH WAS NATURAL. he was not the joker onset for 14hrs. Michael Jai white said he used to ask other actors for advice and used to play around. METHOD ACTING is pure NARCISSIM and an excuse to be an asshole. No one method acts playing AIR BUD dog owner
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I really don't think it's an "either / or" type of thing. Different approaches will work for different actors in different roles.
agreed
Only a mature mind understands what just said.
I feel the same it's not a debate that's so black and white it depends on a lot of things at the end of the day as long as the actor is immersed in their role, then so are we
@@FrostbiteMadHatter2112 The ending line of your comment was beautiful.
@@ralx225b Thank you so much... I think this is the best reply I ever got as well... thanks for making me smile
All acting techniques are legit.
You’re right, you don’t need method acting to do a good performance.
I like natural acting better for me. Method acting is messy it isn’t required to give a great and earnest performance
Hey I’m still confused is there a way you can simplify method and natural acting? Thank you.
It isn’t required but it could be needed if it’s hard to tap into the character
Great examples and perspective.
That E.T. screentest is amazing. Love the part where he says "Ok, kid, you got the job!"
Daniel Day Lewis and Denzel Washington are arguably the 2 greatest actors of all time. Gosh, imagine them in a movie together.
to be able to cry on cue and express real emotional in the charecters experiences is wot makes acting seem natural!
Exactly! This skill inspired me to take an acting class, where I learned about script analysis and subtext. The subtext is critical-in acting, it guides the emotions an actor brings to a scene. In real life, subtext aligns with the subconscious emotional motivators behind our actions.
I began practicing this constantly to consciously control my emotions. Over time, I achieved that control, but there was a downside: my emotional responses became unnatural in real-life situations. As a musician, I also found it harder to feel music intuitively, as my emotions were now under conscious control.
I realized I didn’t enjoy this state. I craved the natural, reactive emotional flow that acting had disrupted. Since acting wasn’t a deep passion for me, just a curious pursuit, I decided it wasn’t worth the trade-off.
Ultimately, I quit the acting class and returned to my natural emotional state. The experience taught me valuable lessons about the mechanics of the mind, emotions, and the involuntary systems that make us human.
That’s crazy
Micheal ja white, who worked on the film with Heath Ledger, said that Ledger wasn't even doing the method acting, he would ask them what they thought about this or that. when he was trying to come up with the joker on different scenes and that Ledger would crack jokes when they yelled cut.
Well, Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month to get into the character. He even once asked Christian Bale to really beat him up in a scene. If that's not method acting I don't know what it is.
Heath Ledger playing the Joker would crack jokes when they yelled cut. Sounds pretty method to me.
@@miguelvidalmartinez9456 Well method you don't break character even between takes. If you look at the behind the scenes footage he was skateboarding around checking with the staff on how he should move and so on. I think it he is more technical but he stated in some interviews that Nolan gave him a lot of creative freedom to explore the character so he took a deep dive and dabbled with a method-esque approach. Almost like a hybrid just like how Bale does it. What was said was his death was due to a toxic mix of prescription drugs but it could have just been a PR move because there is footage of him partying it up when his wife was expecting. If any of that is true or false makes no difference. A persons private life is their private life. He was a hell of an actor that will be studied for as long as cinema exists.
@@miguelvidalmartinez9456 You’re just making up this dark story to make it look like the character he played consumed him, but that’s a big lie.
Natural/ Method hybrid ?
Yes! Natural acting is so much healthier. I prefer it over Method Acting because you can still be realistic but use your imagination.
There is no better, it's just what moves you. 99% of viewers couldn't pick the difference if they were given random movies they didn't know to choose from and pick which was which
Method Acting: Crazy people or disturbed people
Natural Acting: Can't tell you're acting.
pretty good take on it
I've never seen videos like this. This is fantastic. It has so many applications whether you are a cinemaphile, aspiring director/actor, etc. This can be utilized in so many ways and is damn entertaining. Automatic sub.
Method acting is true dedication to the art. Daniel Day Lewis is probably the best actor who has ever lived.
I don't quite understand why you contrast Method and "natural acting". Method is Lee Strasberg? And what is Stella Adler? Sanford Meisner? Michael Chekhov? To summarize, all these are different schools that originated from Stanislavsky, who wanted to make acting "natural". Please clarify what you are talking about.
Agreed. He kinda plays fast and loose with the term Method. And I have never heard "Natural Acting" as a term before (at first, I thought he meant Naturalism... like from the late 1800s, which was basically Realism on steroids, but since he chose examples from films all the acting is more or less "realistic"). I mean, he gets the point across, but he does kinda run roughshod over some rather nuanced concepts.
I personally love both the Method Acting and the Natural, they are both equally good even though they have great differences. In one you're temporarily becoming someone else unaware of the real world around you, only living in the movie itself. In the other you are yourself fully aware of the real world around you trying to portray a character in the best way you can by being yourself. I personaly think you can use one of them, or even both.
Tom hardy said it best... There's only two kinds of acting, convincing and unconvincing
I preferre method acting when I admire the character and want to retain some of the traits in my real life
Great video! Very much love Daniel Day Lewis, however...so many great talents.
I love both method acting and natural acting you can use both to get the work done. I love acting very very much I just love to be on set acting to tell a real story
Natural Acting definitely! Hey man I'm new to the channel and I've always been really good with voices/impressions and stuff. I always thought of becoming an actor growing up I even took some classes but that years ago. So I'm trying to get the ball rolling again and get better at the craft can you give me some critical pointers to Use and to Watch out For and what to do to keep the Tools Sharpened? Much Love and God Bless Ya'll
I was in plays in high school even got a standing ovation for my role in the play they did Little Women. So I like Natural acting cause I like that in the moment type of vibe. But this video was really good. Method acting I like it too BUT I'm not that good! LOL
I feel like it’s kinda un fair comparing these different characters and scenes.
inspiring to see this
Been practicing a bunch of short monologues and it changed my viewing experience completely
Some roles require method acting because they are difficult and complex and the actor needs to feel them so much. characters like Joker and Szpilman and Daniel Plainview. in the end the quality of acting depends on the actor and his role. Some roles need natural acting because their depth appears through that.
The first time I watched TDK and Joker appears I was hooked by him and believe in every words he says and rooting for him to win that's how great Heath Ledger performance is
I like natural better but I might use method in the future. Either way, I believe one should use anything that is useful to them.
I feel like there's a fine line in which some roles were great because the method acting allowed an already talented actor to enbody a role they couldn't have naturally played however, I also do believe that method acting allows for less skilled actors to pretend that they can when in reality if they were only allowed to naturally act they couldn't. TL;DR: I feel like actors who are great at natural acting can use method acting for some roles. Unskilled actors should practice natural before trying method.
I respect the effort that method actors do for certain roles. Christian Bale in The Fighter might be one of the best examples, to the point where standing right next to the real Dicky Ekerlund, the two were practically interchangeable. However, it takes a genuine talent for a natural actor to be able to get into a role before the director says “action” and to put that on pause when the director says “cut”. The energy involved in that is underrated.
One thing you didn’t mention in this video that I hope you’ve mentioned in the other videos is the tool of “sense memory”. That seems to be the key for natural actors to be able to draw out some of those emotional performances you used as examples, especially from Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. The ability to draw from actual life experience and channel it into their role, it’s a catharsis that makes the role more personal without completely immersing into it the way a method actor would. That’s why Viola’s tears and pain are so moving in that scene, because they come from a real place, and it makes you appreciate not just her performance, but her as a person.
From that first example I prefer natural acting because I felt that.
You want ppl to FEEL the emotional beats in a piece of art. It’s the difference between playing all the exact right notes on the sheet music & playing with emotion.
The emotional performance is more indelible & therefore much more memorable.
It's never about the approach, it's whatever works for the actor. Secondly, you can't compare performances - not in a serious discussion, which I can see this is not.
I think good actors, regardless of their approach, feel the emotion and act on it. Perhaps for some method acting allows them to do that more effectively, but at a high cost. With practice, we can easily feel an emotion without also invoking the mental baggage and story that we ordinarily attach to that emotion. Which means we can also move out of that emotion quickly at the end of a scene. It's the stories we tell ourselves about an emotion that keep us trapped within it and causes us harm, not the emotion itself.
All the Natural actors you showed are feeling the emotion in the moment, they're not just acting it, however, they are also not attached to that emotion. Personally, I agree that this always makes for a better performance. This is because while they can feel it and draw on it, making their acting more convincing,, they are not 'possessed' by the emotion so can therefore make rational artistic decisions.
Acting that always feels contrived to me is when the person acts the emotion without feeling it, no matter how well done, it always feels wrong. There are too many unconscious micro expressions etc that come along with an emotion that aren't possible to convincingly act (at least on camera, in a theatre this wouldn't be a problem) and therefore comes across as incongruent and makes the performance unconvincing. Granted not everyone will pick up on this, my husband doesn't but he openly admits his EQ is somewhat lacking.
Also how would you suggest i direct new actors who have a month to prepare to film?
It really depends. If you’re able to rehearse before filming, you’ll get a good sense of who they are, how they take direction and the type of direction that works well for them.
Any direction you give, keep it simple and direct. They need to understand what you are wanting.
Along with this YOU need to practice being able to give constructive changes which are easy to understand. It’s not just on them, it’s also on you.
You first need to have a laser-focused vision of what it is you actually want. If you have that, then you should be able to explain it in the purest terms.
Theirs an argument Neither one is better than other. But theirs argument one method of acting might better suited for a particular role. For example if an actor is doing a major biopic where has to play a real life person. He might have do deeper dive of that historical figure and to really capture and keep hold of that version of the figure for long periods of time until the shoot ends. Going Method might be the way to go if the actor is afraid losing the essence of the figure their playing if they don’t stay in it
As an actor I kind of do a mix of a lot of things . Which is Natural , Method, Action Verbs , and laban efforts . My approach is like a gumbo just a mix of different things😊
Natural acting!! All the way!! It takes more creativity.
I'm an Actor and I go with natural acting whenever I'm on set the role I'm to play I'll just switch into the character automatically 💯🎬
I like the video, but I'm not an actor or study this, so I think in acting performance when it's or isn't working on film. All the examples worked in a extraordinary way. Perhaps it should had put scenes when the method acting wasn't working.
All Natural acting clips were amazing 😢
I think what actors should take away, is not one way is better than the other, its about discovering what you need to get into your own character.
Depends on the roll your playing
Hi there, for me I prefer natural acting thanks
Great video, very interesting !
I think it depends on the actor and the specific kind of role you're talking about. If I were an actor I'd go for natural acting, I personally like better when an actor plays a role naturally in a way that you think you're seeing the real person and not the character. I don't like overacting and fakeness that can be frequently spotted with method acting, or even worse in drama theater acting where it's all fake and you see that they are pretending.
Yea, it's more about the actor and the outcome. Daniel Day-Lewis utilized the method responsibly and respectably for the crew. Natural acting has phenomenol outcomes too. The best for many would probably be somewhere inbetween, just enough to be immersed.
I feel that for a role that is very different from the actor's personality there is a certain level of method acting required?
COMPARING the first 3 people of the video, both performances were good but the denzel washington one was more captivating me. I couldn't keep my eyes off that scene.
Yes, I do prefer natural acting also method acting. How come you didn't include Robert De Niro?
Wonderful video
One thing I learned today. Does not matter if it's method or natural.
There is Daniel Day Lewis...
and then there are other great actors.
Absolute facts. There is a chasm between him and all the others.
I just feel like method acting is bad for your mental health. 🤷🏻♀️
Not necessarily.... It just shows dedication for me and how much you are wanna impersonate your character in the movie and bring a good preformance
I was surprised you didn't recount that famous anecdote about Laurence Olivier commenting on Dustin Hoffman while they were filming Marathon Man.
"Techniques are just... well techniques. Neither one is better than the other. Perform! That's what matter, by what you prefer the most."
While I enjoy your videos I do have to say one thing; Heath did not use method acting, my obsession at one point lead me to being very involved with The Dark Knight and the behind the scenes and making of it and (iirc) fellow actors said that Heath was a delight to work with. Did he take the role to some extremes to get into character? Yes, of course, we all know that, but he did not continue to play the role heavily outside of filming
So from what I understand, you're saying that natural acting uses the actors natural abilities, looks, and other natural inclinations like accent to the scenes advantage while in method acting they have to change to suit their character?
I prefer to method act if I’m going to act. Don’t got a preference on others as long as it’s good
neither method or natural are good / bad approaches. the main things are how well do you know the character and the given context surrounding a scene? also, how deeply can you get into the character during any given scene?
if you can accomplish both these things, either approach will get you oscar nods.
Everyone is different and chooses methods that suits them best
Method acting is like the uncanny valley of emotions; it’s really good but you just can’t perfectly recreate the real thing, and we notice it.
if possible,, maybe blend the two techniques together. If you have a lot of time before you have to perform. Maybe spend a couple of days in character. If possible a week in character. Live in character,, for a few hours every day. But I don’t think there’s any need to go to set in character. Especially if you’ve done your homework.
Both. An actors are actually in the limit of their imagination knew how to portray, natural acting is actually limit of an actor can do the role: but in method acting, they test the their own limits , acting unbeknownst to their limitation. That is my own opinion.
Myth that Heath was method acting.
Method acting is better in natyashastra artist job is to portray beautiful representation not simply copying the realism .
Living in character seems less “method” and more use of play. Method specifically uses your past trauma to recall emotions for the present moment. This can be called “emotional recall” or “affective memory”. This can be unsafe on set, not only for the actor, but those around that actor because the psyche can blur the lines of that moment. You can achieve “truthful” or as you labeled “natural” acting by using your imagination that would be in line with a Meisner or Stella approach. Someone like Daniel day Lewis takes a year or More to craft that character. From voice, to physicality, etc it’s a deeply layered character which is why we revere his work. Dustin slapping Merrill is method. Jared sending things to cast mates is propaganda marketing, and it worked, as we are still talking about it 😂
Natural acting seems to be the best
Is natural acting “pretending” or is it more about reacting in a way that’s natural so that you’re capturing a moment with a natural reaction?
Method or natural, either way you have to be talented.
What makes you think Viola was acting?
Oh I thought by natural acting you meant actors who can relate to their characters on a deep level and therefore can truly get their emotions flowing. Like Liam Neeson in The Grey for example.
There are only two types of acting: Convincing, and not convincing. Be open to whatever it takes to get you there.
Agree. I think most experienced actors worth their salt develop their own, personalized toolkit called Whatever Works. Sometimes they pull a technique from one school or another, or they lean more Method or Classical or whatever, but ultimately they use what helps them get the job done.
Daniel-Day Lewis is the best actor of all-time. So however he does ot is the best way.
Both.
There's acting that works and acting that doesn't... method vs natural is almost an irrelevant detail. Whatever works for you is the best method imo.
OK, I don't get your point.
Is it that Natural Actors are better than Method actors because they can give a good performance at will?
And conversely Method Actors are inferior because they have to use an exotic time consuming system to give a good performance?
It’s hard for me to see the difference without seeing these clips compared with Steven Segal
Natural Acting is superior To Kill A Mockingbird is a perfect example those kids were brilliant
Heath didn't method act. Everyone who worked with him on that movie said he completely broke character and was really chill off camera
Like Ranbir Kapoor said every character comes with its own method and beggage and style. there is not a particular formula to it. If u trap yourself in a formula. U become repetitive in your performances
I like it better natural acting because since I was 10 years old and doing theater, I learned to fake cry and I like it much more to look as realistic as possible, method acting you can't do that that well
So method acting is continuous acting.
Couple things:
I think the method acting is better for some people, whereas natural acting is better for others.
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I also think that Jared Leto did all of that weird creepy stuff To get other people into his character, not him. Joker would never.
Some roles just demand method acting, I don't see how anyone plays joker, pennywise or the Grinch with natural acting. Natural favors more humane scenes, but that psychotic or manic type character demands method acting,
I've always liked the Natural acting approach never the method acting for me it's the natural acting I've been an actor for many years now and I always believed and followed this one rule I myself have followed always when the director says action I turned into the character I was playing and when he said cut I would just be my real life self again till it was time to play my character again so natural acting has always worked for me alot of those actors who followed the natural acting I've watched and admired the others who followed method acting I've never watched of followed everyone knows about Daniel day Lewis and Denzel Washington denzel is the one I've watched & followed for many years I'm glad that he's always been a natural actor he's the best by far now I know why because he's followed the natural acting method however Daniel Day Lewis did play a great bill the butcher in gangs of new York 2004 that was an amazing performance that's the only one he's done that I admired him for
I prefer natural acting
Zel got woke just for his upcoming role in Black Panther ..
Legend still !
What?
Wtf is "woke"?
I'm a natural actor it hits better and you don't do dumb crazy things to get into character which may ruin your life
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not jared leto..........
Are you sure Denzel was acting?
ALL ACTING TECHNIQUES IS GREAT THINGS ...FOR BEST ACTOR.....APART FROM ARTIFICIAL ACTING
Denzel's was better
Natural acting requires discipline, the method is just engrossment
U always talk about Jared Leto who is METHOD ACTOR that he hurts his fellow actors yes you are right it is bad thing but do u know that DANIEL DAY LEWIS is also a method actors and he never hurts anybody.
U said method actor hurts himself yes they hurts themselves because they devoted to craft and that is there commitment
And natural acting is also not wrong its there commitment towards craft to do in natural way.
And one more thing acting is not a job it is art
And actor is an artist .
Not a single time did you explain where the difference can be seen. All you did, for all one can know, is line up a bunch of scenes, seemingly random, and claim they are examples of the 2 methods. If dislikes were not hidden, this video would be at least 30% dislikes because nobody is that daft to think you actually know what you're talking about. From a content creator perspective, though, I have to give it to you. You found a way to get views with the least amount of effort, and I do respect that, on a human level. But on the content itself, this video is full of hot air.
These are bad comparisons. If your going to compare methad acting to natural you can't use actors playing normal characters .Compare two scenes of actors both playing a crazy person or two people both playing a person with a different dialect or from a different time period from the actors. Showing Jim Carrey transforming him self into someone to get all his mannerisms and Jeff Daniel's playing someone that doesn't make him change how he talks and he can just be himself doesn't work.
Too often method acting is used as an excuse by men behaving badly. I've never heard of a woman going method because she'd be labeled as difficult and probably unemployed.
I pity the people whom acting with the method actors. They have endure their stink 😅
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What on earth is this nonsense? Method and Natural are not mutually exclusive. What DDL does combines the best of both. That's why Denzel couldn't do in his dreams, what DDL does in his films. Denzel is great, but DDL is on another stratosphere altogether.
No no HEATH WAS NATURAL. he was not the joker onset for 14hrs. Michael Jai white said he used to ask other actors for advice and used to play around. METHOD ACTING is pure NARCISSIM and an excuse to be an asshole. No one method acts playing AIR BUD dog owner
Useless video, just showing clips
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