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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Movie Kisses are weird. It seems like movie characters always have to look at the lips of their kissing partners before they can kiss them. Do people do this in real life? Not always, right? Is this a convention, something taught in every acting class, like "there is no kiss without the look" repeated like catechism? Or does the practice propagate itself, consciously or unconsciously? (e.g. Do actors watch the look-then-kiss it and go "yeah, look at that! That works!" or are they just so moved by the scene that without realizing it, the next time they have a kiss scene of their own, they ape it without meaning to?) Are directors constantly screaming at their actors in vain (as in this even longer e.g. I've created to fill more lines with carriage returns)?:
"Stop! Cut! Brad, I said DON'T look at the lips. Stop looking at the lips. Don't do it. Stop it stop it stop it. Just kiss 'em." "Right, Chief, my bad. Won't happen again." "Really now, Bradster? Because I've heard that bef--" "I got it. Got it now. No prob." "I'm trusting you here. No look. You know where they are: on her face, where yours are. Kiss them." "Yep. Got it." "Trusting you...." "Yep. Trust. Well-placed trust. I'm your man." "Not looking--" "Right." "--Just kissing." "Ten-four. Loud and clear." "Please now. I think you'll agree this falls under the umbrella of artistic choices made by the director." "Chief! Of course! I'm clay. You mold." "I'm trying, Bradski. Lord knows." "You're the artist here." "Well, thanks, but really. Um. Shall we try it? Again? This time with NO LOOKING AT THE LIPS?" Brad snaps his fingers and points at the director with a winning smile, cocking his head at a jaunty angle. Every female crew member sighs in unison. "Okay so if we're ready with the NO LOOK AT LIPS kiss shot, let's fucking do this thing." "Rolling." "Speed." "Scene 191, take 42." "Jesus god.... Action!" . . . "CUT FUCKING FUCK CUT MOTHERFUCK IT!" "Shee-it. Did I do it again, Chief?" 0 comments |
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