The film director's intuition: script analysis and rehearsal techniques
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adam_text | the rllm director
iiintu tion
Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
Judith Weston
VII
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT PAGE vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv
NEW READERS, RETURNING READERS xvii
Why a Second Book : xvii
Directors and Actors xviii
Directors and Characters xix
Directors and Story Subtext xix
Directors and the Right Brain xx
How to Use this Book xxi
PART ONE-INTUITION, IDEAS, AND IMAGINATION 1
1-INTUITION 3
What is Intuition? 3
Directors Need Intuition 4
The Comfort Zone 5
Innermost Thoughts 5
Intellectualized Ideas 6
Beginner s Luck/Beginner s Mind 6
Permission to Fail 6
Imagining Failure as a Positive Approach 7
Responsibility for Our Imaginations 8
The Lessons of Physical Genius 9
Can Any of This Be Taught? 10
2 -THE FEELING LEVEL 11
Respect for Feeling 11
Intellectualized Feeling 12
Actors Tools Work for Directors, Too 13
Catching a Corner of Experience 13
Micro-Managing 14
Why Actors Shouldn t Try to Have Feelings 15
Give Away All Your Secrets 16
Turning Psychology into Behavior 18
If You Do It, You Will Feel It 19
Substitution 20
It s the Same for Directors 21
Going There 22
viii The Film Director s Intuition I Weston
Self-Knowledge 23
Courage, Mon Ami! 24
Sensory Life 24
It s All As If 26
3 -IMAGINATION AND ORIGINALITY 27
Insight, Ideas, and Entertainment 27
Original Storytelling 28
The Work of Imagination 29
Imagination and Feeling 31
Mike Leigh 32
The Imagined World 34
Imaginative Truth 35
4 -SOURCES OF IMAGINATION AND INTUITION 37
The Unconscious Mind 37
Free Associations 38
Acknowledge Pain and Emotional Cost 41
Turn Off the Automatic Pilot 42
Ask Questions 42
Inner Permission 43
Be Obsessed with Observing People 44
Radical Remembering 45
Self-Knowledge 47
Empathy 48
Passing Judgment 50
Tell Stories 54
Take Time to Think and Daydream 54
Radically in the Moment 56
Radical Listening — for the Actor s Performance 56
Radical Listening — for the Director s Storytelling 58
Listening to the Little Voice 60
Do It Wrong 61
Nailing It 62
Steal From Everyone 63
Resistance 64
Improvisation in the Mind 65
Imagination is Physical 66
Think out Loud Read out Loud 67
Never Stop Learning 68
Spend Time Around Art, Nature, Children Surround
Yourself with People Who Are Capable of Feeling 69
IX
Tell the Truth 70
Acknowledge Mortality 71
Take Responsibility for Your Obsessions 71
Test Your Ideas 71
Don t Stop Til You Get Somewhere 72
Then Follow Impulses 72
PART TWO - SCRIPT ANALYSIS 73
5 -GOALS OF SCRIPT ANALYSIS 75
Story Analysis and Character Analysis 76
How Far to Go with Script Analysis 77
Tell a Story About People 78
Locating a Character s Inner Nature 79
Three Solutions to Every Script Analysis Problem 80
Solving the Scene 81
Active Imagination 82
Engage the Actors, Engage the Material 82
Make it Personal 83
Preparation for Rehearsing — Or for Not Rehearsing 83
6 -SUBTEXT AND CHOICE 85
What is Subtext? 85
The Importance of Subtext 86
An Example of Language and Subtext 86
Subtext in the Writing 87
Character Subtext and Story Subtext 89
It s All on the Page 90
Subtext in the Acting 91
Choice 93
Example of Choice — Slap Shot 94
Make a Choice, Any Choice 95
Choice and Instinct 96
Acting Without Subtext — Sometimes it Works 96
Subtext is Not an Obligation, It s a Privilege 97
A No Subtext Style 98
Intellectualized Subtext 99
7 -PROCESS AND RESULT 101
The Dangers for Actors of Asking for Result 101
What if Actors Ask for a Result? 104
Process-Orientation is in the Director s Interest 106
x The Film Director s Intuition I Weston
8 -EMOTIONAL EVENTS 107
Central Event, Individual Events,
Each Character s Personal Event — Chinatown 108
Vision I l l
Domestic Event I l l
Storytelling Events and Spontaneous Events I l l
Any Event is Better than No Event 112
The Through-Line 113
Beats 114
The Importance of Emotional Event in
Directing the Actors 115
The Importance of Emotional Event
for the Audience 116
Text of Chinatown scene 116
9-TOOLS OF THE STORYTELLER 127
Commitment to a Choice 127
Images and Associations 128
Four Levels of Images — Smoke 129
How Actors Use Images 131
How Directors Use Images to Communicate with Actors 133
Need / Spine / Objective / Intention / Verb 134
Verbs Create a Sense of Event 134
Verbs Create Characterizations 135
Verbs Create Relationship 136
Intention Creates Drama and Comedy 138
Test Your Ideas Against What You Know About Life 139
Emotion is a By-Product 139
Facts (Backstory) 140
Facts Create Situation, Predicament, and Problem 140
Central Facts — Fargo 140
Let the Facts Lead You to a Story 141
The Big, Fat Fact 143
Facts, Imagination, and Memory 144
Adjustment — What If? 144
Adjustment —As If 144
Adjustment — It s Like When 146
What s at Stake 146
Obstacle or Problem 147
Physical life 148
Blocking the Physical Life 149
Physical Transformation 149
XI
10-QUESTION EVERYTHING 151
Some Questions to Ask About the Characters 151
Mysterious Lines — I — Simple Meaning 152
Mysterious Lines — II — Keys to Psychological Detail 153
Mysterious Lines — III — The Key Line 153
Mysterious Lines — IV — When the Script
Gives Result Direction 154
Bold Choices 154
Question the Stage Directions 155
Finally, Some Questions to Ask Yourself 156
11 -REHEARSAL PLAN 157
12 -SCRIPT ANALYSIS — SEX, UES, AND VIDEOTAPE 161
13 -SCRIPT ANALYSIS — CLERKS 181
14 -SCRIPT ANALYSIS — TENDER MERCIES 193
15 -THE WHOLE SCRIPT: SPINES, MAIN CHARACTERS,
AND WHAT THE SCRIPT IS ABOUT 203
A Character s Spine 203
The Spine of a Relationship 205
Main Character 205
What the Film is About 208
Theme as a Way to Direct Actors 209
Examples of Theme and Premise 210
16 -OBSERVATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS 213
17 -LIST OF VERBS AND EMOTIONAL INTENTIONS 221
PART THREE - THE LOST ART OF REHEARSAL 225
18 -DIRECTOR S AUTHORITY 227
Money and Machinery Rule 227
Authority versus Control 227
Listen to their Ideas 229
Stealth Directing 232
A Director s Life Raft — The Word OR 232
Language of Permission 232
Have a Strong Vision that You are
Unafraid to Communicate 233
Response 234
Making Actors Feel Safe 235
xii The Film Director s Intuition I Weston
Be Fearless About Looking Foolish 237
Emotional Responsibility 238
Let Them Work 239
Problems and Resistances 239
Damage Control 241
Trusting and Testing 242
Directors Can Give Actors Permission to Go Further 243
What if the Actor Disagrees on Interpretation? 246
All Actors are Different 246
Directors Who Have Been Actors 248
Thinking Like a Director 249
Technical Directors 249
The Video Monitor 250
Actors as Meat 251
Take Responsibility for Casting 252
A Note on Stars 253
Directors Who Love Actors 253
19-REHEARSAL PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES 255
Purpose of Rehearsal — Farming Not Hunting 256
What Actors Get Out of Rehearsal 256
What Directors Get Out of Rehearsal 257
The Particular Topics of Rehearsal 259
Principles of Rehearsal 260
Rehearsal Philosophy — I 264
Rehearsal Philosophy — II 265
Rehearsal Philosophy — III 266
Build Trust 266
Chemistry 267
Use the Tools 268
Rehearsal Techniques 272
Danger Signals 281
Spending Time Will Save You Time 283
What Some Directors Do 284
Teaching Acting on the Set 288
How to Get Rehearsal 289
20-SCENE SHAPING 291
Emotional and Physical Structure 291
The Blocking Plan 293
Where to Get Ideas for Blocking and Movement 294
Domestic Event 295
Crew Rehearsal 296
The Tools of Scene Shaping 296
Organic Blocking 296
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Using Objects (Props) in Rehearsal 297
Connect Physical Movement to Emotional Events 297
Movement in Actors 298
Pacing 299
Creating the Picture 301
21 -REHEARSAL SCENARIOS 303
A Simple Model for a One-Hour-Per-Scene Rehearsal 303
Sample Scenarios 307
Talking Rehearsals 309
On Their Feet Rehearsals 314
Warm-Ups 317
Improv 318
How Long to Rehearse? 320
22 -JUST BEFORE THE CAMERA ROLLS 321
Bringing the Rehearsal Work onto the Set 321
Do Not Ask an Actor to Do Jobs Other than His Own 321
Boredom 322
The Truth Will Cut Together 323
Technical Demands, Social Demands 323
Different Actors Work Differently 324
Emotional Preparation 324
Free Fall 326
Before the Take 326
During the Take 327
After the Take 327
Getting them Not to Act 328
Last Take 328
Look for the Glass Half-Full 329
All the Time in the World 329
23-EPILOGUE 331
The Artist 331
The Audience 332
Further Study 333
FILMOGRAPHY 335
BIBLIOGRAPHY 341
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 343
INDEX 345
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