Learn from two-time Academy Award-Winning actor Michael Caine how to properly prepare yourself for a very competitive field. Caine, because his book is so honestly and efficiently helpful you can tell his intention is to educate and improve the art, not blow smoke. Biometric tests on cinema audiences, such as pulse rates, are used to advise the film companies on just how much viewers are immersed in the experience. I was reading Sidney Lumet's Making Movies but wanted some more detail on actors and acting, which led me to finally open Acting in Film, which I'd learned about last September.

At the time he is watching a pornographic film that has his school girl niece being taken advantage of by corrupt adults. This new revised and expanded edition features great photos throughout, with chapters on: Preparation, In Front of the Camera - Before You Shoot, The Take, Characters, Directors, On Being a Star, and much more.Rather than try explaining everything with endless details, Michael Caine just gives it to the reader plain and simple, which is the reason why i truly appreciate this book. Most of the acting topics that are covered in the book are explained in more detail in the masterclass.

He also states that it is his responsibility to fully engage the audience, to make them believe in him, not to see him as an actor speaking lines, but to see the character from the screenplay, he describes how he does this as an actor and his methods are interesting to read. It's a very handy practical guide to day-to-day-life for anyone in the film industry, and Michael Caine narrates us beautifully through his own experiences in the industry. This book also shows you how acting worked in the 1960's,1970's and beyond, the differences in the way that staff behind the scenes worked, even gender differences and technical advances which changed the way actors worked in the film world. He discusses how as an actor you have to steal personality traits and behaviours from other people around you, or even characters from films you have seen, to create a more three-dimensional construction of the character you are playing. I studied theater first and jumped into acting in two feature films without formal film acting training.I had to take breaks (which I attribute to the time I've spent away from reading books as frequently as I used to; it takes more effort than it used to require when I was younger to get through books now), but overall, this was an easy, fun, and insightful read. The best movie actors become their characters to such an extent that the product isn’t viewed by an audience as a performance. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In the 1960's there was a huge cultural change between the social classes and it was not unusual to see some actors getting big breaks without having gone to acting school, Some were members of local acting classes but had never studied the art of acting.

A keen awareness of picture continuity is essential in insuring an actor's valuable time on screen, in addition to increasing a thespian's chances of being hired again. I was hoping for more insight on techniques in front of the camera - similar to Michael Caine's great acting masterclass from 1987 (I believe), which can be found on YouTube. I questioned this with the seller and he - Gary from Quantum Leap - assured me there should be no problem. So many things kept in the dark brought to light I never thought about in film acting and Caine’s stories, analogies, etc. After you see it, you will look at acting in films in a different way, and notice little details that separate great actors from good ones.Although he makes several references to other actors' bad behaviors, the only person he names by name is Anthony Quinn.