I'll Be in My Trailer The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors

Name: I'll Be in My Trailer The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors
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ISBN: 9781932907148

ISBN-10: 1932907149

ISBN-13: 9781932907148

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Badham, Craig Modderno

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Beneath the entertaining and instructive war stories lies the truth: how directors elicit the best performances from difficult and terrified actors. You'll learn how to use proven techniques to get actors to give their best performances - including the ten best and ten worst things to say - and what you can do when an actor won't or can't do what the director wants. Includes never before published stories from veteran director, John Badham, as well as Sydney Pollock, Mel Gibson, James Woods, Michael Mann and many more.

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Publication date: 7/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 219
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction



Contributors



No Day at the Beach


How to Hide


The Moral of This Tale Is?


Novice Director Meets Richard Pryor


Career in the Dumper


Summary



Dos & Don'ts


Universal Peeves


Summary



Comfort or Constipate


The Magic, Please


Summary



Are Actors Nuts?


If It Looks So Easy, You Try It


Craziness Clarified


Just a Bunch of Children?


"Never Act with Dogs or Kids"


Crybabies Too?


Actors Are Different Than You and Me


Summary



A Lazy Way to Success - Casting


Stupid Casting Trick #1


Stupid Director Trick #2


Stupid Casting Trick #3


Cut to the Audition


Free Rehearsal


Cast at Last


Videotape - Blessing and Curse


Professionals vs. Amateurs


Trainwreck #5: Cast the Producer's Girlfriend


Summary



Rehearsal - Panacea or Pain


Bunch 1 - Must Have It


Bunch 2 - Who Needs It?


Rehearsals Are for Wimps?


Train for Spontaneity


There's No Time to Rehearse


Organic Valium


Summary



Rehearsal - Day One


First Readthrough


That Means No Rehearsal... Right?


Never Invite Guests to the First Reading


When Do You Direct?


Improvisation


Staging During Rehearsal


How Much Rehearsal?


After Rehearsal


Summary



Killing Acting


The Shifting Sand of Objectives


Non-Actable Directions


Active Action Verbs


Rehearsing Emotional Scenes


This'll Shut'em Up


Napoleon's One-Minute Manager


Phantom Kibitzers


Summary



On the Day


What's the First Shot?


Six-Hundred-Pound Gorillas


Forget Them, What About Me


It's About Respect


Summary



Actors Are Not Apples


Get a Stuntman


Who Made You God of Ideas?


Summary



What Am I Doing?


Result Directing


Tricky, Tricky


Skip the Bullshit, What Do You Want?


Off the Wall


RX for Stage Actors


Film Actors Can't Throw Stones


Summary



911 Directing


Obvious Possibilities


The Dog Ate My Dialogue


This Scene Is Stupid


Can't Play It Truthfully


What Is the Real Emotion


Fear of Failure


They Are Not There


I'm Not Saying This


I'm Not Doing This


Paper Baggers


What If They're Really Crazed?


Playing the Lottery


Scene Stealers & Bad Boys


Meltdown in Malibu


Drinks, Drugs & SOBs


Live a Little


Outside or Inside


Summary



VideoVillage Idiots


Ohmigod, They Want to Come to Dailies!


Summary



Wait, You're Not Done


Invading the Editing Suite


Summary


Picture Credits


Index


About the Authors