........................in talking about
..............acting in life, as well as acting onstage, I should have avoided any chance of voting on Kirk Douglas taking place.
To be honest, when I start a blog entry I often have
no idea where I'm going with it. Better, I figure, than writing about nothing....
But since you bring it up, I'll give an example of Kirk
Douglas the atrociously bad actor. His portrayal of
Vincent Van Gogh is a perfect example of failure to
play a character, and instead give vent to an hysterical sketch
of how Van Gogh is perceived as an ear-hacking madman,
instead of as a religious character trying to find God in Art.
99% of the time IMO Van Gogh was probably a quiet, gentle soul
much loved by many people.
Onscreen what we see is Kirk Douglas and another scenery
ripping, over-ambitious, over-the-top 'results' actor competing
with him, Anthony Quinn. John Houseman should have known better than to let those two destroy the credibility of the characters'
relationship.
But again I really didn't want to talk about professional acting and
certainly not Hollywood acting, but instead acting as a human skill of great value in ordinary life.
Barry
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