Death Disguised

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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

I believe performing is a lot about experience. Running scenes over and over again, getting comfortable with them. Failing and trying again. It is always two steps forward, one step back. One of the most important aspects for acting is repetition. Running scenes again makes it possible for you to try out different ways to act them out. You need to know your character, why is your character saying what he/she is saying? How would he/she say that? Trying out different thing and getting feedback is extremely important for learning to act. From staging scenes in class I am getting more and more comfortable trying out new things. It also helps me to determine how to act out specific emotions that I will eventually use in other scenes and plays. I am learning how to express myself on stage in different situations. Staging the entire scene, not simply doing what the director tells me to do, but directing ss a group gives me a better understanding of the scene and requires me to fully engage in every aspect of it. Watching others stage their scenes helps me building an opinion on what I liked and what I would have done differently.In addition to that it gives me ideas what I could have done differently in my own scene.

Due to my previous acting experience I know most of the basics such as not turning my back to the audience, upstaging or being upstaged and  projecting. Difficult for me is often speaking slowly and clearly. Though my accent has grown weaker over the three years I have spent in the US it is still audible. I sometimes struggle with difficult words or am not entirely sure about the meaning of the script. This makes it harder for me to get into character. It is always important for a good scene that all actors are seriously into it. There should never be insecurity on stage. Other important aspects to a good scene are that all the actors are clearly visible, no one is being upstaged, and audible, everyone is projecting. The actors should ALWAYS be in character and concentrated when onstage Once all these are fulfilled one needs to worry about if the scene makes sense and if it is entertaining for the audience. This doesn’t necessarily require the scene to be funny, it can also be sad, or romantic, but it is important that there is an aspect to the scene that intrigues the audience. To improve staging scenes in the future I need to speak slower and get more comfortable with language. I also have to make sure to always stay in character even when I am no talking and react more to what others are saying or doing.

That Escalated Quickly

That Escalated Quickly

The Setting is on the lower floor of Humanities, it is Monday, The academic day has just ended, most students have left the building. It is 95° and the air conditioner is broken.

[Enter Marcel, Ben]

BEN

Come on Marc it the day is over and it is soo hot in here can we just leave?

MARCEL

You are the kind of person who always gets in a fight

[Enter Tom, Paul]

BEN

Oh no look who is coming

TOM [to Paul]

Look it is Ben and Marcel. Their friend Ron came to my party the other night uninvited and flirted with my cousin. I’d have beaten him up right there if I could have. [loud to everyone] Well well look who we have here.

MARCEL

All I see are me my friend and two clowns

[Tom wants to attack Marcel when Ron enters from one of the classrooms]

RON

What the hell is going on here?

TOM

Ron you little son of a…

BEN

Woah, woah ,woah chill dude

RON

What did I do? Seriously I don’t want to get in a fight with you.

MARCEL

If you are looking for a fight you just found one.

RON

Guys Mr Prince said he doesn’t want us in another fight or we’ll get suspended.

MARCEL

Oh shush you coward

TOM

What are you gonna do ha? You’re like half my size!

[Marcel attacks Tom, they fight]

RON

Everybody stop. Tom seriously. Marc cut it out!

[Attempts to stand between them, Tom punches Marcel in the face]

PAUL

Let’s go Tom

[Paul and Tom exit]

MARCEL

Dammit Ron, why do your fights always get me hurt.

BEN

Let’s get some ice for you.

[Marcel and Ben exit, Be returns alone]

BEN

He broke Mrcs nose.

[Tom and Paul enter]

RON

You…*

[Ron punches Tom, knocks him out, Paul carries him off stage]

BEN

You better go right now before they tell anybody. Mr Prince will be so angry!

ROMEO

What have I done?!

[Ron runs off stage, Enter Mr Prince with Paul]

MR PRINCE

What is this? I hear Ron punished Tom

BEN

Tom broke Marc's nose

MR PRINCE [to Paul]

Is that true?

PAUL

Marcel attacked him first.

MR PRINCE

That is no excuse

PAUL

You can hardly blame Tom

BEN

You can’t blame Ron either though!

MR PRINCE

I will have a talk with both of them, this might not in a suspension but definitely in a detention. 

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Death

Death
In Act 3 Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet Friar Lawrence tells Romeo about prince Escalus decision to ban Romeo from Verona rather that executing him. To his surprise Romeo is not at all happy or relieved. Instead Romeo claims that banishment for him is like death as Verona is heaven for him because Juliet is there. He says "Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not." Being separated from Juliet is like death for Romeo. He even asks Friar Lawrence for a poison or knife to kill himself rather being disgraced and banished.

Night

The blindness hides the crimes of love in night.
The stars protect the secret dreams of heart.

Anger

Anger is a very powerful emotion because it is besides love most likely the one that will be most likely to overpower reason. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry becomes school champion. Ron is jealous and offended as he thinks Harry sneaked himself into the competition even though he is not old enough, for the glory and didn't even tell his best friend. When he tells Harry what he thinks Harry gets angry because he believes it is such an absurd thing to say. He and Ron get into a fight and neither one is willing to back down or talk to the other one which might have solved the argument.

A Zombie ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Adaptation

A Zombie ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Adaptation

    At first one might not think that the Movie Warm Bodies directed by Jonathan Levin, released February 1, 2013 (USA) is too close to Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet. The title makes the film sound like a bloody and literally brainless Zombie movie and the cover doesn’t really alter that view. However the movie is in many ways related to the play. In addition to smaller similarities like names and scenes, the themes and the main conflict that produces the plot is the same, though modernized into a Zombie movie.

    The main conflict in Romeo and Juliet is a feud between two families, the Capulet's and the Montague's, that is eventually ended through the love between Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet and their sacrifice. In Warm Bodies a terrible plague has struck the earth that makes Humans forget how to live and turns them into thoughtless and emotionless Zombies. The plague creates conflict between these two parties and therefore resembles the feud between Capulet's and Montague's, in which Capulet's are the Humans and Montague's are the Zombies. A Zombie named R falls in love with Julie, a Human. Together they discover that their love is a cure to the plague just like Romeo and Juliet’s love ends the feud.

    The first and most obvious similarity one discovers is the similarities of characters and their names. Romeo becomes R, Juliet becomes Julie. Juliet’s Nurse becomes Nora, Julie's best friend and Romeo’s friends Mercutio and Benvolio together with the role of Friar Lawrence combine to M (Marcus) a friend of R. Paris becomes Julie’s ex-boyfriend Perry who bares some of Tybalt's characteristic as he gets killed by R causing a conflict between him and Julie. Lord Capulet is Julies father and the leader of the rest of surviving humans.

    There are several similar scenes in the play and the movie the most obvious being the famous balcony scene. R and Julie first meet when Julie and a group of friends leave the protection of the wall, set up to by the humans to keep the Zombies out, to look through abandoned houses for medical supplies. They run into a group of hungry Zombies. When R sees Julie he is instantly attracted to her, but in contrast to the play she is first afraid of him the love on first sight is one sided. Knowing that she is in danger among the Zombies R takes Julie to an airplane in which he lives. Julie is at first suspicious about his intentions. She asks him to take her home which he eventually agrees to. After Julie finds out that R has killed Perry she leaves him and returns to the Humans alone but when he discovers that him and other Zombies that have seen R and Julie’s connection including Marcus start to cure themselves, follows her behind the wall. He sneaks onto her parents property surprising her as she walks onto the balcony. Like in the play she is afraid that he will get caught as she knows he will be killed instantly. She hides him inside the house. They admit to each other how the missed the other one when they were separated.

In the end the love of R and Julie triumphs over the plague and the conflict between Zombies and Humans. Like in the play where their love ends the feud. It gives both sides hope and together they teach the infected how it is to be human, which cures them. In contrast to the play the film has a happy ending. R is prepared to sacrifice himself for her, which turns him human once more and the both survive.