“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.” (pg. 94)
Oscar Wilde said in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” that acting is more real than life. I don’t agree with that idea, because nothing can be more real than life. Being real is very common in life, because people can only say that something is real when they live it or feel it. Everybody have to live the idea if they want to prove that something is real.
Acting is very unreal thing, because when you are acting you always trying to be a different person. Like Sibyl Vane did. One day she became Juliet, one day she became different person. Then when she left the opera she became his real character. When you are acting someone you are trying to be like him or her, because you have to give the main idea of the character which you are acting. So you are unreal, for example Monday you are Juliet and Sunday you are Sibyl Vane. Sunday you are not Juliet or Monday you are not Sibyl Vane. So you are not real on both Monday and Sunday.
People on the opera are unreal person. Actually they are real, because you can see him or live that moment. But they are figurative; they can’t be themselves on the scene, so they are unreal people on the scene.
As a conclusion acting can’t be more real than life, because if you want to prove something that real, you have to live it or feel it with your real character.
I absolutely agree with sıtkı. Stage isn't real, it's something imaginary. The people on the stage are instruments of the writer. They are not themselves, so they are not real, their own existance is not important for the audiences. They are just the bodies on the stage who have fairy husks on their skins.
ReplyDeleteYou can make the stage real. You can feel the stage, you can live the stage. You can be one of the characters on the stage, if you want. Yo can make these characters the real people, the only thing you have to do is to live like them on the stage.
ReplyDeleteFor years, theater have been existing in human life. Lots of big empires allow the theater in their period. Romans, Greeks or British Empires... Were not the people who live on the stage real? They were as real as we are. They were real and the play that they played was real too.
I don't agree with you, I think that they loved the play and the acting, and as a result of this love, they could be real. There is nothing imagination on the stage. Maybe the play has little bit imaginative power but after the writing process, it becomes something real as an apple that we can hold in our hands.
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There is no comment for sıtkı from me. That's all
ReplyDeleteI think acting can be more real than life because the topics that are chosen for that play should explain the real face of the life. The life is real or we named it as a real but the truth is hidden in somewhere else. The play shows us to fact that is hidden in the motion in the life.So both of them is real.
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