What is Acting

 Plot is character revealed by action. - Aristotle

December 27th 2024


Familiar movie actors have a physical body.  Their other part is non-physical, their character.  Each one is unique.  They are two-part systems.  Their character is the non-physical part.  Non-physical implies that "character" is informational.  The non-physical is mental as opposed to being physical.  I'm not referring to character actors, any actor exhibits behavior that presents more or less a unique impression.  This applies to anybody, friends, politicians, acquaintances, and celebrities.  I think the ancient Greek word says people had nephesh "soul".  That must have included what I have laberled, "character".  Persona may be applicable here.
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In greek, as in ancient greek:

actor is ηθοποιός <ethopeos>, ethics creator.
ethos (morality) + ποιώ (create, e.g. a poet is a creator of texts)

Character is χαρακτήρας, meaning a scribe, one who carves.

Soul is ψυχή, an immaterial force of life like breath, as they thought air is immaterial. From the verb "ψύχω", to cool something by blowing breath.

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Alexandros Akranidis old Greek is supposed to be incomparably more richly expressively than Hebrew.  Did the Greek speakers throw around the word "soul" to mean all sorts of things like people do today?  The usage in Genesis seems to exhibit the word's meaning, ''that which animates the flesh just made.''  There's few other word choices a writer could use there for something of which nothing is known.

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The non physical part is experienced as non physical. 

It is arguably a set of probable actions of the body. The actions and patterns of the body is all we know. The non physical part is implied, and assumed.  Without evidence,  which is the difficult part to accept.
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William Thomas George "Character" was a poor choice of words in the post to indicate what I was referring to since it could be confused with the fact that actors play characters while having their own persona.  The celebs and people in general all impress me in various ways (with whatever I am actually saying is the non-biological part of them).   A human being's soul confers individuality.  So a casting director should select actors for the job using metaphysical thinking, to make the most money with their production.  They will look at the attributes of a candidate and maybe assign numbers from one to ten to each attribute you listed.  Then they might compare the score to the score that is the best fit for the role the actor is being considered for.

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William Thomas George Your concept has value for readers.  It took me a while to realize that I'm the one who brought up "attractiveness".  You show that the OP or the conversation has influenced your thinking.  The OP is about how people we don't know personally produce various impressions.  These acquaintances are physical systems that carry information.  These are the most complex physical systems of all the systems that make up the universe.  Information is spread among various physical systems during the interaction of these systems.  In fact, information in the systems is what influences the outcome of physical system interactions.

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Moving on fron your pain

“Pain may arise. Don’t worsen it with resistance.
Pleasure may arise. Don’t diminish it by grasping.
Allow all to be as it is.”

~ Wu Hsin




"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
-- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

To be in youe creative element takes a specific obssessional quality.


“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”

— Anaïs Nin

Authenticity in action


Marco's unconventional acting resume for actors:

I know what I want.
I know who I am.
I know what I'm ready for.
Aware of capabilites

How do you catch an actor not acting or acting a lie.


What is the attention span one demonstrates as an actor.



An actors main motive shoud be made to make you always feel wanted.  The actors intent must always be not to minimize their needs or make themselves feel small.


The audience is not looking to tolerate bad acting.


No editing. There is no editing in an actors craft.

 

































I used to be an easy guy you could fall in love with on a superficial level. Now I'm just the type of individual without a youthful sense of it without the god complex that we keep living forever and I'm good at keeping things honest. My beliefs center around equality and fairness that borders on controversy. It doesn't get much better than this.

- Marco Almeida 



Despite all my past efforts, I have toned down my intellectual property with a disabled sense into what I truly think and feel.


I wish I knew beforehand what a fraudulent thing love is actually. I can only claim stupidities on my part.  Activity of my deceiving heart.

I do suppose that love should be something infallible, where everything you think and feel goes together. Ask for nothing less.

When it comes to true love as if reality were made of it, I feel a certain amount of indifference in life's mirage.


My devotion to kindness is empowering, it goes beyond its methods or inferior models of truth and conviction.  Deserving of virtue ismans only prized possession he needs to suit successfully. - MarcoAlmeida 2013

"Every thought, feeling, perception, or memory you may have causes a modification, or ripple, in the mind. It distortsand colors the mental mirror. If you can restrain the mind from forming into modifications, there will be no distortion, and you willexperience your true Self".—Swami Satchidananda

Your ability to reason far outweighs the capacity to have yourself ignored. (MA2013)



What is a geneational talent?
Buzz word or buzz killer.







I can't help but feel happy for her.  Such a monumental moment and made it count.  Acting is not a suit and tie job but it is the first time I have heard the term popcorn actor.  Any director that gets away with stating something derrogatory... (as if it were said to me,) as Moore confessed. That was worth listening too. There is a mystery to acting I may never fully understand.  As result it's been what I feel is my life's mission.