Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused
, started by JonnyD on May 11th 2016 at 9:43:18 PM
- In Jaws, the attack on Chrissie Watkins was simulated by tying two ropes to Susan Backlinie and pulling them to and fro. Unfortunately, one of the ropes was pulled too hard, breaking a rib. Those screams of pain and terror are real.
I'm not sure this new example fits this trope. I think since it was an accident and a real injury, it was a case of Throw It In!, like with the injuries that the actor who play Aragon in Lord of the Rings got.
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I think the note for the movie "Holiday Inn" describes Fred Astaire, not Bing Crosby. Astaire performs the drunken dance scene upon arriving at the inn after Lila leaves him.
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How well-attested is the story about Slim Pickens not knowing Dr. Strangelove was a comedy? Given his lines — and the readings Pickens gave them — it seems impossible.
The examples in this article are kind of a mess with a whole lot of examples that don't even follow the trope and some that are mostly about method acting instead of being forced method acting. Also, many examples aren't really explained so that one could understand the point behind them.
"As early as the first Terminator crew members wore T-Shirts emblazoned with "You can't scare me. I work for James Cameron.""
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That one is less an example and more a follow up to the examples involving him, the implication that James Cameron pulls this a lot, so his crew is used to being scared, or something along those lines.
I cleaned this page up a while back and now its got even more examples that don't fit the trope. A common misunderstanding seems to come from cases in which actors were given method acting influences by the director (such as requiring actors to go to boot camp before playing soldiers). I think the title itself leads people to think "any method acting that the director forces you to do" rather then the existing descriptions.
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In "The Silence of the Lambs", when Clarice is talking to Lecter and he starts mocking her Virginia accent, Hopkins had not told Foster he was going to do that, and her offended expression is genuine.
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What about Stage Moms making faces at the actors beside the camera, does it count?
The ironic thing about this trope is, the better the actor, the less it should work. Unless they've been told to react to whatever happens, the natural response is presumably to avoid deviating from the script.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Cleanup
, started by Cidolfas on Nov 24th 2010 at 10:26:34 PM
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