{"id":2683,"date":"2005-03-23T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2015-05-17T07:50:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:50:18","slug":"michael-caine-the-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2683","title":{"rendered":"Michael Caine: The close-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from Michael Caine’s awesome book Michael Caine – Acting in Film: An Actor’s Take on Movie Making <\/a>\"\". Here he talks about “the close-up”:<\/i><\/p>\n

The close-up camera won’t mysteriously transform a drab moment into something spectacular unless the actor has found something spectacular in the moment. In fact it will do just the opposite: the close-up camera will seek out the tiniest uncertainty and magnify it …<\/p>\n

If your concentration is total and your performance is truthful, you can lean back and the camera will catch you every time; it will never let you fall. It’s watching you. It’s your friend. Remember, it loves you. It listens to and records everything you do, no matter how minutely you do it. If theatre acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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