What are actors actually thinking while shooting a scene?!

I'm aware of the fact that this sounds highly provocative, but yet it somehow fits in the line of my last few posts. After it has been established by the commentary contained on the official DVD  that in this scene from Sherlock

Benedict Cumberbatch was indeed - as I had been perceiving - very much worried about his tight suit and the vicinity of the swimming pool, I wonder if I'm also right about Martin Freeman's thoughts and what his bodylanguage and facial expressions are telling. My thoughts were the following: So I'm John Watson, Sherlock doesn't have a clue and will be surprised at the possibility that  John may in fact be Moriarty.  John won't let him be in doubt for long though and reveal his true state as the pawn in this lethal game as soon as possible. As soon as the word "heart" gets mentioned by John or rather Moriarty, John realises that everything Sherlock will have to offer is but a McGuffin, the real target is Sherlock and John is his most vulnerable point, so from this point onwards John will look for any opportunity to let Sherlock off this most dangerous hook disregarding his own life...I'm certainly intrigued by this histrionic potency of making my imagination run wild, very well done indeed.

The Girl Is Mime and The Magic Flame

One of my - regretfully presumed lost - favourite silent movies is The Magic Flame, it stars Ronald Colman in a double role as  Tito, a circus clown, and Count Cassati, unscrupulous womanizer and heir apparent to the Illyrian throne. Tito accidentally kills Cassati on a row concerning Bianca, an aerial artist, and is forced to assume Cassati's part unless he would have to face a murder charge. Bianca presuming that Cassati has killed Tito sets out to assassinate "Cassati". Check it out on my site and there is also part of the translation of a French novelization here, drop down the "Novelization of Silents" button to be able to read more.

Regarding the short film The Girl Is Mime, I only now after contacting Tim Bunn realise the stunning parallels. For here there is also a mime/clown and a murder involved. Even down to some stills the resemblance is overwhelming. Yet one more reason for me to be absolutely anxious to watch it. Though I have been informed that  I will have to be patient until late 2012.

Somebody that I used to know

OMG Twitter

Sometimes my beloved Christine's reaction "OMG", fits quite brilliantly into my life scheme. So again OMG, now I've joined Twitter and why? Because I'd love to tell the world or whomever that The Girl Is Mime seems to be a quite interesting short. Reasons why: I've always been fond of silent movies and aware of  - I believe it was Lilian Gish's - assertion that silent movie acting was no mime. True, for people in silent movies behave and talk mostly naturally - unless there is slapstick going on - you just cannot hear them. Now I've watched regretfully only the trailer(s) and the making of of a movie that takes a mime as its protagonist, and as a consequence is a silent movie. It should unsettle me but instead it feels like a marvellous idea, because from all the looks of it, mime is presented as mime and yet the central protagonist's emotions are - from the alas to me limited look of it - wonderfully enacted. To me the best actors were always those - mainly trained in silent movies - that could tell you one thing in words and something completely different with their facial expression and body language. I strongly believe that The Girl Is Mime manages to play on exactly this antithesis and this especially with the help of one of the finest British actors. ;)

A follow-up is located here http://das-unmoegliche.blogspot.com/2011/08/girl-is-mime-and-magic-flame.html!

Unvordenklich - Immemorial

Something that has always kept me busy about art is the fact that allows to create things genuinely or originally, to this extent that there are not representing any "reality" or a concept.
















The metaphor I usually employ is that of a journey I'm setting out for, and being the adventurous type I'd rather leave on one whose outcome  - and ideally outset - is not yet known to me, for what good is any movement that only keeps me confined to myself. A muslim once said straight to me - meeting me for the first and only time - that he perceives that I have a great trust in god, which is only another way to describe my yearnings.












So here are some drawings that actually started out with a line and ended thus - immemorial/ unvordenklich. - Fell madly in love with a couple of beautiful ears, dEUS, Morticia Chair

Das Rosa Tiepolos

Nach längerem Überlegen wird die von mir gefühlte Verbindung zwischen Giambattista Tiepolos überwältigenden Himmeln und Shakespeare's kaum einzuordnendes Spätwerk Cymbeline am besten in Wilhelm Willms genial einfachen Worten "Der Himmel geht über allen auf, auf alle über, über allen auf" reflektiert. Dieses absolut ver-rückte Spiel mit Ebenen, oben und unten, das die ganze Welt einzuschließen scheint.

Covergirls!

Ein Symposium in Amerika über die Strategien der Künstler, herausgegeben von Gerhard Theewen, erschienen beim Salon Verlag.

 

Cox: In dem Zusammenhang fällt mir ein Zitat ein, das anläßlich des letzten Akademierundgangs gefallen ist: "Die Leute aus der Zellman-Klasse haben sowieso alle einen Sprung in der Schüssel", oder so ähnlich. Ich fand das schon interessant, zu erfahren, daß Außenstehende einen ganz anders beurteilen, einen Zusammenhalt oder Rahmen feststellen, der einem selber so gar nicht bewußt ist.