ISABELLA KRISTIN . consulting
Whoever studied screenplay, dramaturgy and science of theatre is aware of the fact that almost all famous scripts are based on psychoanalysis and the fundamentals of the teachings of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, both well rooted in the European, particularly Austrian and Swiss heritage and understanding of psychology, therapy and the soul.
Screenplays follow timelines, patterns and plot points, which are incidents and determinators to drive the emotions and therefore the character into action within a set story and storyline, containing different character types, some meant to evolve, some meant to stay stagnant to increase polarity, so-called stock characters.
Actors playing roles which are meant to evolve will express and showcase their depth of talent by skillfully working with the creation of their on - screen personality, developing an emotional pre - story for the character all by themselves, a pre - story to the reason WHY the character acts a certain way, which allows them to fully identify with the role, therefore every actor will interpret a role slightly differently. To build a strong, desire - and motive - driven persona, the actor needs to have basic, yet intuitive and physical knowledge of the whole range of human emotion, empathy, basic knowledge of psychology as well as trauma - related coping mechanisms. He needs to be in excellent communication with his body, being capable to feel and identify emotions in the body and using the body to create emotions in self and the audience.
To support the actor in this, good screenplay writers will create dialogues containing interpretable subtext, where the character says something different than he is obviously feeling in his role: Emotions in media cannot be transported by spoken words, they must show in visuals, in actions, in behavioural clues the character displays.
To allow for even more depth, the subtext challenges the actor to implement deep psychology into the story.
Actors, to truly impersonate their characters, need to be able to produce repeatable, highly emotionally charged performances, to allow directors different angles of cinematography and the much needed continuity to achieve artistic expression. To do so, they can work with a variety of techniques and methods taught at acting schools and by professionals, giving them more self awareness combined with a very active approach of truly listening to what the acting partner is actually saying in his role and waiting for the impulse to act rather than repeating the studied lines. This particular waiting for the impulse is done to avoid the actor just playing out his prepared and well studied answer, but to truly RE - ACT in the moment instead.
One of the ways how Method Acting, which is especially widely used at the West Coast and Hollywood, messes with your mind as an actor is the fishy and dubious use of sense memory to get your body and mind into an emotionally aroused state.
Sense memory is the ability to precisely feel, remember and recall specific emotional states which occurred during the entire life, from early childhood to adulthood until presence. When triggered, these emotions of the past can be transferred to the presence and float the actor with personal feelings from the depth of his own psyche whilst performing and playing an artificial role to make him appear more realistic and real.
When having to prepare for an emotionally intense scene, actors who are working with sense memory practise their abilities by consciously creating emotional connections between pictures on their inner mind and the role they play.
Unfortunately and unknown to the majority of audiences wordwide, in many cases actors draw on trauma from their childhood to play emotionally challenging scenes, putting their body under great risk for cellular stress caused by the repetitions, which are inherent in the media of television and cinema due to filming standards.
Many young and even experienced actors are entirely unaware of the great dangers this kind of acting can put their psyche in, unsupervised by therapists, the effects unknown and never taken into account, them barely in control of anything, just trying to reproduce the great emotions they have been asked to show off, which will leave them drained, their glands overstimulated, in need of some fix. No wonder many of them drain themselves even more by the use of substances, so empty the feeling they experience after giving their all, sucked out by the demonic media entity itself, that they cannot help but repeat the vicious circle over and over.
Given the incredible focus on the always changing ME, the STAR, the MEDIA IMAGE, who has little to no value until having press due to some role they are playing or some new record released, it comes at no surprise that only certain self - absorbed types can handle this madness, those that are at the same time overtly full of their own Ego, yet at the other hand fragile enough to have it broken all over again, the perfect soil for the breeding of narcissistic personality traits, if not even fully blown narcissists themselves.
NO human with a healthy mind, body and soul can endure the endless mindgames and tortures of the industry, to fully obey their programming, to fully submit to all their sick propaganda, to accept their gender inversion, to turn a blind eye to the detrimental effects it has on humanity, degrading their puppets by all sorts of body modifications, humiliating death rituals, gender swapping roles and the almost complete absence of real women from the screens, since most famous actresses are hidden trans men. In the ancient Greek drama, all female roles were impersonated by men, this never truly changed.
If you follow some media stars, who have been groomed from young age, you will see their rise in their teenage years, their first collapse due to mind programming in their mid twenties and the rebuild or rehab of their character until their mid to late thirties - if lucky enough to even reach that age, most of them get discharged and die under "suspicious circumstances" even long before.
Media was invented to program your mind into submission, be aware of its methods and avoid falling prey to sob stories.
Guard the gates of your mind.
© Copyright Isabella Kristin 2022