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Post by thebayharborbutcher on Feb 18, 2018 20:39:19 GMT
What are your feelings on non-actors staring in feature films? We've seen it of late with 15:17 to Paris and the upcoming comedy Uncle Drew, but it dates back further than that with directors Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh and Jim Jarmursch experimenting with it.
Personally I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. It's interesting to watch from time to time. But overall I prefer to see professional actors lead films.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 20:41:08 GMT
For an introspective indie film about the human condition... fine.
For a Clint Eastwood blockbuster abut America, fuck yeah!... no.
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Post by marth on Feb 18, 2018 20:56:08 GMT
Your post reminded me of this:
Hilarious!
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Post by hi224 on Feb 19, 2018 4:56:19 GMT
What are your feelings on non-actors staring in feature films? We've seen it of late with 15:17 to Paris and the upcoming comedy Uncle Drew, but it dates back further than that with directors Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh and Jim Jarmursch experimenting with it. Personally I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. It's interesting to watch from time to time. But overall I prefer to see professional actors lead films. depends on the director. |
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Post by ck100 on Feb 19, 2018 5:08:11 GMT
Well for the most part these people are cast for name recognition rather than talent. It's like when an A-list celeb is cast in an animated film.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 19, 2018 6:56:00 GMT
Your post reminded me of this: Hilarious! I was gonna post that too. It works in some circumstances. Helps if they're from a profession that requires showmanship. Some musicians as well as guys like The Rock and Ahnie can squeeze by off that charisma. |
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Post by mslo79 on Feb 19, 2018 8:46:35 GMT
It probably depends, as non-actors might work once in a while, but in general professional actors are going to be better since they tend to have a more commanding presence and just feel more natural in front of the camera as I would imagine when it comes to general acting is sort of getting used to acting normal like if the camera was not even there along with being able to say your lines like if you where saying them naturally which I imagine is easier said than done otherwise anyone could act.
but for certain types of movies you probably don't need top notch acting as long as the person is not horrible in their part as I feel there are a fair amount of people who are probably around this standard of acting out there.
so I would sort of see people broken down into these three basic categories...
-your average person off the street. chances are they will be just bad most of the time.
-you got a fair portion of people who can at least be passable for certain types of movies. basically these people are limited and might only work okay enough for a very limited amount of movies.
-then a small amount who are basically professional.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Feb 19, 2018 8:55:47 GMT
Depends.
Like in THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, John Huston used this old night watchman as the holy man. It was really smart casting. I think a real actor would have been too theatrical.
But obviously his role didnt require a huge amount of emotion or dialogue memorization.
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Post by anthonyrocks on Feb 19, 2018 15:19:07 GMT
How about Gina Carano ?
She used to be an MMA Fighter who then switched to Acting and I actually think it has been Improving for her Very Much with Film after Film that she does.
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