Compare And Contrast Essay
Juan Matos
ENC1101
Professor Ingram
The Huge Battle Between Theater & Film "Actors, never feel your bodies, make your bodies feel you." This quote comes from one of the most gifted stage and screen actors alive. Kevin Spacey has truly mastered the art of both theatre and film acting, although clearly this is not an easy task. These two extremely different types of acting contrast in numerous ways. A movie portrays any situation on a big screen and a wide variety of audiences. Theatre can be described as a live performance on a stage in front of an audience and is rarely done the same way twice. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Film and theatre are both very popular forms of entertainment in the field of performance arts but the modern acting, and production of film makes it a better and more popular form of entertainment. Firstly, theater and film contrast in many things as it is said before, and one of them is through their historical backgrounds. Theatre first originated in Greece in 6th century BC. According to the magazine History World, “The ancient Greeks established the categories of tragedy and comedy 2500 years ago that are still used today, it is said that this foundation was led by the followers of Dionysus, a god of fertility and wine”. They kept up with the god’s special interests and came up with this performance art that we call theatre. They developed dramatic structure, acting, and theatre architecture (at least for the Western world). So basically, each time one sees a performance, he/her are participating in theatre history, meaning that theater has been around for as long as we can imagine, but filmmaking is way more modern and recent. In contrast, filmmaking originated in the 20th century. Each inventor added to the progress
ENC1101
Professor Ingram
The Huge Battle Between Theater & Film "Actors, never feel your bodies, make your bodies feel you." This quote comes from one of the most gifted stage and screen actors alive. Kevin Spacey has truly mastered the art of both theatre and film acting, although clearly this is not an easy task. These two extremely different types of acting contrast in numerous ways. A movie portrays any situation on a big screen and a wide variety of audiences. Theatre can be described as a live performance on a stage in front of an audience and is rarely done the same way twice. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Film and theatre are both very popular forms of entertainment in the field of performance arts but the modern acting, and production of film makes it a better and more popular form of entertainment. Firstly, theater and film contrast in many things as it is said before, and one of them is through their historical backgrounds. Theatre first originated in Greece in 6th century BC. According to the magazine History World, “The ancient Greeks established the categories of tragedy and comedy 2500 years ago that are still used today, it is said that this foundation was led by the followers of Dionysus, a god of fertility and wine”. They kept up with the god’s special interests and came up with this performance art that we call theatre. They developed dramatic structure, acting, and theatre architecture (at least for the Western world). So basically, each time one sees a performance, he/her are participating in theatre history, meaning that theater has been around for as long as we can imagine, but filmmaking is way more modern and recent. In contrast, filmmaking originated in the 20th century. Each inventor added to the progress