Gene Wilder on the Importance of Physicality in Acting
Gene Wilder: Stanislavski, do you know who Stanislavski was? The great Russian teacher and director of acting. At the end of his career he came to the point in rehearsals where he relied mostly on finding the psychological physical actions that told the story. As it turns out its made for movies that formula, its not a formula, but that principle. When you saw the silent movies, except for the legend at the bottom of the screen, they were telling the story with pictures, then later on the pictures began to talk. I think the best combination was in the Marx brothers where you had brilliant dialogue and fantastic physical action. But too much later on...Hitchcock used to say he stopped going to movies because he was tired of watching photographs of people talking. And thats what that came out of...that quote of mine, and thats how I feel. If you tell a story where the audience...my teacher Lee Strasberg used to say, What if they cut the soundtrack? Would the audience know whats going on? And thats what I ask myself on every page, Will the audience know whats going on?





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