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Why Does Acting Feel So Different Now?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVvHTbqip5M

In this video I dive into the complicated history of how American Film Acting evolved from classical Hollywood theatricality into contemporary naturalism and why nobody can agree on what "Method Acting" actually is.


0:00 Why Does Acting Feel So Different Now?
06:04 Part 1: 'I Don't Follow The Method'
12:34 Part 2: The True Birth of The Method
20:08 Part 3 The System (Or How Modern Acting Was Born)
33:24 Part 4: Why Nobody Understands Method Acting
37:53 Part 4b: The Invention of "Going Method"
44:32 Part 5: "There Is No System"

Correction:
19:40 Stella Adler was not one of Strasberg's students - They were in the same theatre group before they had a falling out.

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