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Analysis Of The Movie ' Whiplash And Through The Uses Of Tools `` Essay

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To the unknown eye, an actor’s has the ability to appear effortless in its performance, and yet there exist many tools one actor can equip to better embody his character in a film or play. To an audience, not all tools present itself clearly in a blatant manner, but if the audience member were to pay closer attention to the actor playing the character, he or she could note the tools utilized. An actor, through his experience, develops his mastery of various tools of the craft of Acting and ultimately employs the tools to portray his character in the best possible method. Miles Teller portrays Andrew Neiman in the movie Whiplash and through the use of tools like: extreme physical and environmental conditions, sending and receiving, emotional life, heightened language, private moment and his character’s center of pain, then we see the complexity of the character Teller plays.
Earlier lectures such as lecture three and lecture four introduced and delved into the idea of extreme physical and environmental conditions. For example, one of the provided examples showed James Stewart’s character Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington battling fatigue during his filibuster. The actor, Stewart, most likely was not battling the actuality of fatigue, however, the audience would not detect that because through his façade it would appear that his character, Smith, could barely hold himself up. While obstacles in a film or a scene often take shape of a problem that moves along the

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