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Marvel Acting
Jul. 18th, 2019 11:07 pmHave you heard Brie Larson talking about filming that "Where's Fury?" scene?
As transcribed by MTV.com from the Tonight Show interview,
"There was nobody else there — I was by myself on a green screen," she said. "I walked in, and they were like, 'Just real quick, we're just going to whip pan over to you and you're gonna go, 'Where's Fury?'" She went to ask the cast and crew about Fury's actual whereabouts, and the only answer she received was that he was "very gone."
"I was like, 'Oh, I think this means that's he's dead,'" she explained. Her instructions for the scene were to look around at the others in the room, but she wasn't told who was around. Instead, she was given small details like how many people were there, not who. This secretive trend continued as she was later flown out to film scenes for Avengers: Endgame without even knowing what she was being asked to do it for.
"I flew to Atlanta to start filming, and had no idea what I was doing. I arrived and they gave me a piece of paper that was a full page of dialogue and action, but all of it was redacted except for my one line," she explained.
Then, there's Tom Holland and Sebastian Stan. They were told that Tony's funeral was a wedding.
I understand how those who hate spoilers love this stuff but from an acting and writing perspective...
It's horrible.
An actor is supposed to bring the writer's character to life using not only their dialogue and character descriptions but how their character is treated by and talked about by others. It's imperative to know these things especially motivation. It means that it's extremely unfair to judge the acting of Marvel films when not everyone is given the right tools to act their best.
Obviously, Marvel films can have a certain prestige and it must be fun getting to dress like a childhood hero but...if actors keep being treated as mere chess pieces without getting to really act, I wonder how many might start turning those roles down.
To me, I feel like the spoiler culture is stupid because if a story depends on its twists and turns to be interesting, then it was never written well to begin with. Does knowing Darth Vader is Luke's father ruin everything? No, it ENHANCES it which is what a proper twist should be doing instead of making a rewatch boring or being divisive.
As transcribed by MTV.com from the Tonight Show interview,
"There was nobody else there — I was by myself on a green screen," she said. "I walked in, and they were like, 'Just real quick, we're just going to whip pan over to you and you're gonna go, 'Where's Fury?'" She went to ask the cast and crew about Fury's actual whereabouts, and the only answer she received was that he was "very gone."
"I was like, 'Oh, I think this means that's he's dead,'" she explained. Her instructions for the scene were to look around at the others in the room, but she wasn't told who was around. Instead, she was given small details like how many people were there, not who. This secretive trend continued as she was later flown out to film scenes for Avengers: Endgame without even knowing what she was being asked to do it for.
"I flew to Atlanta to start filming, and had no idea what I was doing. I arrived and they gave me a piece of paper that was a full page of dialogue and action, but all of it was redacted except for my one line," she explained.
Then, there's Tom Holland and Sebastian Stan. They were told that Tony's funeral was a wedding.
I understand how those who hate spoilers love this stuff but from an acting and writing perspective...
It's horrible.
An actor is supposed to bring the writer's character to life using not only their dialogue and character descriptions but how their character is treated by and talked about by others. It's imperative to know these things especially motivation. It means that it's extremely unfair to judge the acting of Marvel films when not everyone is given the right tools to act their best.
Obviously, Marvel films can have a certain prestige and it must be fun getting to dress like a childhood hero but...if actors keep being treated as mere chess pieces without getting to really act, I wonder how many might start turning those roles down.
To me, I feel like the spoiler culture is stupid because if a story depends on its twists and turns to be interesting, then it was never written well to begin with. Does knowing Darth Vader is Luke's father ruin everything? No, it ENHANCES it which is what a proper twist should be doing instead of making a rewatch boring or being divisive.
