Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 000138 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
000138
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE ACTING are the things—and he's got to go back and fight for them—knowing that we'll never give in! Because that's England, too— knowing that we won't be beaten ... we won't! We just . . . won't! . . . I'm sorry, Clive . . . I'll be all right in a minute. Now that you have read the scene, let us assume that you have never heard of the picture, and do not know the first thing about the story. We will confine ourselves strictly to this one scene and see what we can find out about this girl, what she is like, and what her problem is. She is English and she is talking to a man named Clive—that much is obvious. We gather from her first speech that he has been telling her about some man who is thor- oughly fed up on fighting and wants no part of it. Clive has not identified this man because, she says, at one point, "whatever this man is—"; but I wonder if you will not get the impression, as I did, that she believes Clive is actually speaking of him- self and his own reactions. I caught that in the vehemence she expresses in the line, "It's you, Clive! Her first words are: "You've only told me the things this man's brain has told him not to fight for. 112