2017年3月17日星期五

Acting, Life and Hollywood

Hollywood, a dream place of many actors, I won't use the word "all", because there must be some actors don't dream about the Hollywood, maybe Bollywood, or other place. This blog will talk about the relation among the acting, life and Hollywood.
At the beginging of this blog, I have to talk about myself, not an actor, but I had took some acting classes, still not important for this blog, the most important point for me to write this blog, I had one acting teacher had been working in Hollywood, and had a lecture from two guest speakers who had worked in Hoolywood as well.
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Open you searching engine, and type Hollywood, that's where you can find the picture I just posted here. Isn't it looks great, like a dream place? Even it may not be all actors' dream, still, there are throusands or millions actors and young people dream about it. Just like there are many young girls had dream about become the angel of Victoria's secret.
As we all know, models and actors are two different job. Models need to have a perfect body for the brand they are working with, healthy, good looking, that's probably when people first thinking of the models. Actors, just like the name, good at acting. But, nobody knows, since when, actors need to have a "good" body, perfect face to keep their role they want to play. 
From one of my acting teachers, he said that he had dreamd about the acting career life in LA, Hollywood, but there is too much pressure. 100% understand, pressures, Hollywood, such a famous place for actors, so many of actors dream about going there. There are full of the actors who have great acting skills, they are all looking for an opportunity to catch the attention from the public. Which also may become one of the reason that actors start care about the outlook of them. After all, not everyone like Leonardo DiCaprio, which I just wrote one blog about him, we have to say that Leonardo has great great acting skill, and he had a great opportunity when he was young, which are all conect to his successful today.
I had a hostsister, she was 4 years younger, she dreams about to become one of the angels of Victoria's secret, but she never think about to control her body or do a nose job something, which just make her looks perfect enough to become one of the angels, she always says healthy is more inportant than beauty, and she was 13. But, guest speakers I had in my acting class, she told us back in Hollywood, there are a lot of actors are gaining or lossing weight just for the shows they want to continue playing, or the roll they want, it may looks normal, we would think that's the way they work, but what if that actor too fat or too thin to hurt his or her health. We can't tell someone is healthy or not just by looking at them, the same reason, we can't tell if this actor is naturelly looks like this.
However, personaly think, acting career is important to actors, but life is more important. Every acotr should find a best way of his or her lifestyle. In addition, if there is one Hollywood, there will be another place like it.

2017年3月16日星期四

Leonardo DiCaprio, acting from a 20 to now

LeonardoDiCaprio, if you don't know him, then you may know the Jack from Titanic, Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, Jordan Belfort from The Wolf of Wall Street, Dom Cobb from the Inception, Hugh Glass from The Revenant, which makes him finally get Best Actor Award on Oscar Award. Not like the other movies he played, The Revenant not just gives him a nominate in Oscar but made him become the winner of it. If you still want to know more information about this actor, you can find his website link with the fisrt word of this blog
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This is the picture found online about The Revenant, how Leonardo DiCaprio looks like in the movie.
“leonardo dicaprio”的图片搜索结果
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This is a photo found online, when Leonardo DiCaprio was youngFrom two photos, it is not hard to see, Leonardo become more vicissitudes. Some people may think that Leonardo not that charming boy from Titanic anymore, but the reason makes him famous and win the award, is not because his outlook, but his acting skill. I don't know if Leonardo had shape his outlook for all the charactars he played, but he did work hard on The Revenant. 
“I can name 30 or 40 sequences that were some of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do,” what Leonardo had told to Yahoo Movies “Whether it’s going in and out of frozen rivers, or sleeping in animal carcasses, or what I ate on set. [I was] enduring freezing cold and possible hypothermia constantly.”
Just compare with The Revenant and Titanic, we can see that Leonardo is not that young boy we knew from a classic remantic story, he become a more mature, experienced actor. Leonardo's successed today he has, it not given by his outlook, charming, but his acting skill, and what he's giving to his acting career. Like The Revenant, Leonardo experinced a lot of "tortures", like the cold enviroment, character's bitterness he needs to show in the movie. It is not a easy thing for actor to act an experience he or she never experienced, which it easy to tell how hard the actor works on the charters.
Actors shouldn't shape themslves for one specific character, there are many actors gain or lose their weight for the role they want to play or the one they are playing and want to continue play it. The link in this sentence, is link to my another blog write about the life and Hollywood, and acting. As an actor, acting skill is way more important than than the outlooking. Like Leonardo, his acting skill is the reason to help him win the award not how charming he is.