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blutoski said:
With that in mind, I'm not exactly sure why Williams would be given credit for inspiring people, rather than Schulman, or Schulman's english teachers who were the real thing.
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I admit I haven't watched Dead Poet's Society, nor have I seen a documentary based upon Schulman's teachers, so I can't really say which would be more inspiring.

Might it have something to do with acting?

RayG
 
I've never been clear on why pretending to experience emotions on cue is considered admirable rather than disdainful and dangerous. The ancient Roman attitude towards actors seems to me much more sensible than our own.
 
You prefer monotonous emotionless actors?

Personally, the thought of watching every actor in a movie exhibiting the emotional range of Mr. Spock is quite unappealing.

RayG
 
d4m10n said:
I've never been clear on why pretending to experience emotions on cue is considered admirable rather than disdainful and dangerous. The ancient Roman attitude towards actors seems to me much more sensible than our own.
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Charity demands that I assume this to be tongue in cheek (mild) trolling.
 
Of course, many actors don't pretend to experience emotions, they actually make themselves feel the emotions they're supposed to.

There's a lovely moment in an behind-the-scenes thing for the sitcom Derek in which Karl Pilkington (who had never acted before being in the series) was saying that he wasn't a proper actor. He said that rather than pretending to experience the emotions, he just pretended that what was happening was real. Then he references a scene in which he has to shout at a woman whose mother has just died, but who had never cared for her mother. After the scene he had to avoid the other actor and said he was physically shaking because he was so furious.

The rest of the cast laugh at him and tell him that that's what acting is.

Is it something that's particularly admirable? Not more so than most other jobs, I'd have thought. But it is a skill, and a difficult one to do well.
 
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