1997 One Hour Writing About Two Actors And Descr

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1997 One Hour Writing About Two Actors And Descr

Students will watch one of the movies listed below, paying careful attention to one of the actor’s listed. After watching the film the student will then choose an actor/film from the Film Response # 1 or 2 list (that you did not write about before) and also watch that film. The objective is to compose a paper comparing and contrasting the two-actor’s performance style, believability and physicality. You can do some brief cited research on the actors training if you’d like but it’s not necessary. The important thing is to focus on what similarities or differences you see in each actor by watching each film. Did you believe or prefer one actor to the other? Make sure you choose two movies you’ve never seen and that your own response to the two actors in each film is apparent in the paper. Minimum word requirement is 600 to 750 words, but feel free to expand if needed. Again, if research is used cite all sources!

Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland: Ordinary People (1980)

Sissy Spacek: Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

Jack Nicholson: The Shining (1980), A Few Good Men (1992), As Good as it Gets (1997), About Schmidt (2002)

Robert DeNiro: Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1982)

Peter O’Toole: The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982)

Robert Duvall, Michael O’Keefe: The Great Santini (1980)

Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor: Stir Crazy (1980)

Mel Gibson: Gallipoli (1981), Hamlet (1990), Pocahontas (John Smith) 1995

Paul Newman: Absence of Malice (1981), The Verdict (1982), Nobody’s Fool (1994)

Robin Williams: The World According To Garp (1982), Awakenings (1990), Aladdin (1992), Good Will Hunting (1997), One Hour Photo (2002)

Jerry Lewis: The King of Comedy (1982)

Glenn Close: The World According To Garp (1982), Fatal Attraction (1987)

Mel Gibson: Gallipoli (1981), Hamlet (1990)

Richard Gere, Louis Gossett Jr.: An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

Jessica Lange: Tootsie (1982), Sweet Dreams (1985)

William Hurt: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), Broadcast News (1987), A History of Violence (2005)

Debra Winger: An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), Shadowlands (1993), The Lovers (2017)

Sean Penn: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Milk (2008)

Meryl Streep: Silkwood (1983) The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Music of The Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002), Julie and Julia (2009), The Iron Lady (2011), The Post (2017)