Friday, August 15, 2014

week 4 blog actors The Godfather




The Godfather (1972)

 

Marlon Brando – Interpreter

Marlon Brando who played Don Vito Corleone in the Godfather is an interpreter actor because he took the role and made it his own. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino both use the method style of acting. The method approach to acting is, “Actors who use the Method rely on using their own emotions from their past in order to bring new depth to a part. By using this method, actors could harness real emotions in portraying their characters.” (Method Approach to Acting, 2003-2014).

Al Pacino – Interpreter

Al Pacino who played Michael Corleone in the Godfather is an interpreter type of actor. An interpreter actor, “Refers to actors who take material and put their own stamp on it. Often this involves interpreting well-known roles” (Jacobs, 2011). Al Pacino is a classic actor in his own right and according to the Bio on the IMDB, “Pacino was an original in the acting profession. His Method approach would become the process of many actors throughout time, and his unbeatable number of classic roles has already made him a legend among film buffs and all aspiring actors and directors” (Stewart, 1990-2014).

Robert Duvall – Character Actor

Robert Duvall who played Tom Hagen the adopted son of Don Vito Corleone in the Godfather. Robert Duvall is a character actor this type of actors, “Are able to fit invisibly into a wide variety of disparate characters, adapting to the needs of each script and director they work with” (Jacobs, 2011).  Duvall proved one of the few established character actors to move from supporting to leading roles according to the Bio on the IMDB (Hopwood, 1990-2014).

 

I have placed Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in the interpreter type of actors because they both studied the method approached to acting and seem to use that type of acting in their roles in the movie the Godfather. Both of these actors seem to take their parts and add their personal stamp to them just like they were the real crime family.

Now Robert Duval is a character actor because he adapts to the character he plays in any given movie. Whether it is playing the mentally disabled “Boo Radley” in To Kill a Mockingbird or the adopted son of the crime boss in The Godfather to the mentor of a car thief ring in Gone in 60 seconds.


 






Robert Duvall would still be placed in the same category know matter what movie he was to play in. Robert Duvall is the type of actor who can play any role because he plays the character that the role calls for some other movies that Robert Duvall has had roles in are Gone in 60 seconds, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Open Range.  

 
Hopwood, J. C. (1990-2014). Robert Duvall BIO. Retrieved from Internet Movie Data Base IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000380/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Jacobs, B. G. (2011). Film:From Watching to Seeing. San Diego: Bridgepoint Education. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUENG225

Method Approach to Acting. (2003-2014). Retrieved from WiseGEEK: http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-method-acting.htm

Stewart, B. (1990-2014). Al Pacino Bio. Internet Movie Data Bases (IMDB). Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

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