Saturday, February 17, 2007
24 and Sopranos, oh and Acting part 3
Well I've been downlaoding like crazy of late off of bittorrent and LimeWire for the purpose of getting two shows The Sopranos and 24 latest series. Both shows are two of my favourites although both of them are very different so it would be silly to compare them both too much. My only problem though with 24 is with each season things tend to get a bit more hackneyed a bit more predictable and its get a bit more difficult to keep the surprises up, and the double twists can even be predicted at times, and you go to yourself "of course that character is a baddie" and "well I could see that coming!". Jack Bauer also seems to have an almost superhuman endurance to torture and death and being put in extreme situations that will involve deaths of his family or close friends and he still bounces back quicker than anyone. But inspite of all that you still root for the guy cos he is the goodie, and he'll push things as far as they need to go.
The Sopranos for me has always been richly entertaining and although it is often fairly brutal and graphic in its depiction of violence and is filled with violent and impulsive characters it is really engrossing to watch. Although I don't really know what came first in terms of the chicken and egg here, Analyse This or The Sopranos? Obviously the latter is vastly superior to the broad comedy of Robert De Niro's panic attack suffering mob boss. The Sopranos really digs deep into all areas of society in America and perhaps most interesting is how it shows Tony Soprano as a human being, warts and all, yeah sure he is a violent bad tempered, cheating, two-timing, mob boss, but he's also a family man who cares about his friends and family and he also is troubled about his way of making a living too at times. The characters are mostly all wonderfully written especially Tony, Paulie and Junior (with perhaps the exception of Meadow who is next to useless most of the time).
Anyways onto my third acting class which I had on Thursday there which I really enjoyed again, this time we read script from the play Waiting for Godot, so I did a scene (twice!) with two other people. It was fairly nerve wracking doing a scene in front of about 20 people but its good fun all the same, and the more you do it the more you get used to it. It was also really good to see the others in the group give their all and was pleased to see them "act" well (I for one tried to do it as well as I could). Perhaps before the course is done I can recite some Doctor Who or Monty Python just for a laugh. ;)
The Sopranos for me has always been richly entertaining and although it is often fairly brutal and graphic in its depiction of violence and is filled with violent and impulsive characters it is really engrossing to watch. Although I don't really know what came first in terms of the chicken and egg here, Analyse This or The Sopranos? Obviously the latter is vastly superior to the broad comedy of Robert De Niro's panic attack suffering mob boss. The Sopranos really digs deep into all areas of society in America and perhaps most interesting is how it shows Tony Soprano as a human being, warts and all, yeah sure he is a violent bad tempered, cheating, two-timing, mob boss, but he's also a family man who cares about his friends and family and he also is troubled about his way of making a living too at times. The characters are mostly all wonderfully written especially Tony, Paulie and Junior (with perhaps the exception of Meadow who is next to useless most of the time).
Anyways onto my third acting class which I had on Thursday there which I really enjoyed again, this time we read script from the play Waiting for Godot, so I did a scene (twice!) with two other people. It was fairly nerve wracking doing a scene in front of about 20 people but its good fun all the same, and the more you do it the more you get used to it. It was also really good to see the others in the group give their all and was pleased to see them "act" well (I for one tried to do it as well as I could). Perhaps before the course is done I can recite some Doctor Who or Monty Python just for a laugh. ;)
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