I will endeavor on this blog to review movies with a little life as I see it mixed in as well. At time this might be a bit flip so please hang in there, for the payoff.
I have a deep understanding of acting having learned the craft from William Esper one of the worlds foremost teacher in the Meisner Technique. Who in turn learned from Sanford Meisner himself.
I have been a Professional Actor going on thirty years. Having worked on Stage,Screen and TV. I know this world through the eyes of Stage managers, Editor, Director, Best Boys and yes even a few teamsters. My nephew is one of the most sought after cinematographer in Chicago. It runs in the family. I have screened 10,000's of hours of film and am working on a book about film critique. I have been the answer guy about films for friends and family for years.
WHY
"Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy.
Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repression, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system."
Steinbeck wrote this in East of Eden.
Yes I read too, sometimes twice a day.
Enough said Enjoy.
RUPERT RAVENS
