Movie actor

Author: Jacqueline Nacache (France)
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Publish Date: 2007-02-09
Features: Actors imply the era of the film, yet extract it from the flow of time; actors give life to characters, but at the same time, as embodyments of the characters, they freeze them; actors guide the audience in the film, yet make the latter lose their way in illusion; actors subordinate the film to humanity, preventing it from becoming an art, yet they refuse to let it be merely an industry, for no actor would suddenly abandon their template and be left with only form, perspective, and utility. As we can see, the film has far from exhausted the actor; it merely enriches and expands it with new paradoxes. Actors imply the era of the film, yet extract it from the flow of time; actors give life to characters, but at the same time, as embodyments of the characters, they freeze them; actors guide the audience in the film, yet make the latter lose their way in illusion; actors subordinate the film to humanity, preventing it from becoming an art, yet they refuse to let it be merely an industry, for no actor would suddenly abandon their template and be left with only form, perspective, and utility. As we can see, the film has far from exhausted the actor; it merely enriches and expands it with new paradoxes.