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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession. (Uta Hagen)

As I’m doing my research for my theater studies exam on Friday, I gave across the quote above. This quote might sound simple or shallow at first glance, re-read it again and you could discover more. When I re-read the quote, I realised that it actually makes a lot more sense than it actually seemed.

Anyway, I found some interesting videos about realism acting that you might be interested in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQNY3ZFZP3w

Here’s one interesting video, which features an ‘imposer’ of the Master, Constantin Stanislavski:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWEoPQVkSuU

亲爱的网友们：

之前我答应你们我会在部落格上post我在课堂上的专题作业 《起点。中站。终点》。

但是我的同学还没把影片upload在youtube，我就已经前往曼谷度假了，所以让你们久等了。真不好意思啦。哈哈。

从想构思到筹备工作，到拍摄直到剪接，我和我的队友大概只有一个月的时间完成《起点。中站。终点》。老实说，时间很紧迫，而且同时要准备考试和为我在《当我们同在一起》的角色做筹备工作，我之前压力真的是很大。但是这小小的难关是不会考倒我这个打不死的蟑螂的！

我是蛮满意《起点。中站。终点》的最后成果啦，不过如果有多一些时间的话，我觉得《起点。中站。终点》会更好。如果我得给自己打分，我只会给我自己70分吧，因为我觉得我还有很大的进步空间。

说得到，就要做到。所以接下来你将会见证我首次当导演的成果！希望你会喜欢！

Please click here to watch《起点。中站。终点。》

注意：这是一部不容易了解的短片。它的故事是简单，但呈现方式是复杂和不直接的。如果看了之后不了解，请多看几次！如果还是不了解的话，请你们在这部落格上讨论吧。

My first experience as a director!

This film is a school assignment that I was previously busy with. ‘Rail Love’ is a short that’s heavily inspired by Wong Kar Wai, one of my favorite film artists. The main theme of the film is to remind us human beings not to be fickle about love for things around us.

(Spoiler alert: The protagonist of the film is not human but a necklace, and the film is mainly shot from the point of view of the necklace.)

I will try to post the video.

p.s. Welcome to my new blog!