Have just been reading some of the threads, including the one started by Timo, and it struck me - as it so often does on this forum - that CCP members construct and inhabit a curious parallel universe:
i) on the hand, there is the view - both implicit and explicit - that those people who have attended drama school are convulsed by snobbery and a sense of superiority whenever they encounter an actor who hasn't;
ii) on the other, there is the demonstrable defensiveness and sense of inferiority exhibited on this site by those who DID attend drama school, because they are continually forced onto the defensive by precisely those attitudes outlined above.
Those of us who did attend drama school are told so often on this site to "get over" the fact, that I'm starting to feel that it's not actually our problem.
Or is that just my imagination?
All of the above is also symptomatic of another tendency I have noticed on this forum, which is the tendency constantly to try and find mechanisms and criteria by which we can all JUDGE each other's success or otherwise. The only possible valid criterion in such an exercise is one predicated on how often a given individual works professionally. BUT, having said that, it's simply not anyone else's place to judge in the first place, surely?
A note on Mark Hertford's point: big drama schools don't turn out 'factory-type' performers. The best of them turn out actors who have a good basic grasp of stage and, increasingly, camera craft - things which, for all the their talent and enthusiasm, untrained actors frquently fail to exhibit. That's not to say that untrained actors won't acquire the same skills independently if they keep at it - the best one's certainly will - but to imagine that between one and three years of acting training (day in and day out, under the watchful eyes any number of professional tutors) is going to leave you no better equipped to enter the profession is patently absurd. Sorry.
ok I am not saying that
drama schools turn out actors with a stanard
perfomance
just from my POV of someone who went to a drama
school and learns from other people (see CV)
its just i feel that certain types of learning
are group learnt and not down to a indivual
base's
well maybe sometimes i get it wrong
but we all do
no one is perfect
wether from a drama school or not
=Wow - A big big thankyou to everyone who's been downloading the TV clips fom my CV. I only put them on yesterday lunchtime, and so far over 100 downloads have been made. Very gratifying - bless you!
Well I fancied Edward Scissor hands..... basically johnny depp.............. .sorry had a moment, fainted at the mere mentionof his name *sigh* .. in any form....
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