OK. Again, I don't think I disagree with (what I think) you're saying. But I am having trouble understanding why this is related to the difference between an undercover LEO versus a method actor. Are you willing to connect the dots more explicitly?
Although I agree with the gist of what you've said just below, I disagree with the (apparent) implication that an actor gets their story from *the* play/movie script. From what I've heard, an actor has to dig into their private, more grounded, stories in order to do a good job exhibiting the emotion the play/movie script (and the director in particular) need. Pile that ambiguity underneath the ambiguity that any good play/movie will *also* rely on the private stories inside the audience members. And that goes beyond merely ambiguous endings or director/theater cuts. It might lie in every inflection and movement of the actor(s). An actor *without* a backstory, more finely granulated, than that presented in the script alone, will likely give a flatter/2D performance. Even if (or especially because) the audience member can't "feel like"/empathize with the actor, they will likely have (or not) a "believability" or "suspension of disbelief" that percolates through the performance. On 1/28/19 12:40 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I would again make a distinction between private stories and public stories. > I may delude myself, but I also have a set of experiences that are only > mine and that I either could not or would not share. My self-stories (and > dreams) are grounded in a way the stories I read are not. A fiction writer > is trying to be entertaining, or at least sell books. An opinion writer is > trying to persuade or manipulate. The actor's story comes from a script, > and in that sense the it is static. A diary is distinct from these. There > aren't the degrees of freedom available in a real life that are available to > a writer inventing characters. Empathy one extracts from a story is not > actually empathy, it is something that has been teed up for the reader. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
