TIL: Today I Learned... (4 Viewers)

[Madmarsha]

Mostly bc I hear my wife tell it to my son every time we see Mads on screen
(She will point out any and every ‘began training as a dancer’ actor there is)

Ah, very cool!

But it makes sense - you can start developing applicable performer skill as a dancer early (5yr old?) - applicable actor training doesn’t really kick in until high school usually

Oh, I certainly see the general performing connection. Just curious, do you know of anything he's been in where his dancing/gymnastics background would have been more evident? I mean, Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing was, Ah, of course.

 

[zeetes]

Mostly bc I hear my wife tell it to my son every time we see Mads on screen
(She will point out any and every ‘began training as a dancer’ actor there is)

But it makes sense - you can start developing applicable performer skill as a dancer early (5yr old?) - applicable actor training doesn’t really kick in until high school usually

til that mads mikkelsen trained as a gymnast and then a ballet dancer which is how he met his choreographer wife before becoming an actor.

did you know that @guidomerkinsrules ?

 

[Madmarsha]

til that mads mikkelsen trained as a gymnast and then a ballet dancer which is how he met his choreographer wife before becoming an actor.

did you know that @guidomerkinsrules ?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Ah, very cool!


Oh, I certainly see the general performing connection. Just curious, do you know of anything he's been in where his dancing/gymnastics background would have been more evident? I mean, Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing was, Ah, of course.

One important, but understated skill in screen acting, is muscle memory/remembering where/what you were doing
A scene is going to have multiple takes and the director/editor prefer if you repeat your actions as precisely as possible each time without losing expression or energy level
So dancers, gymnasts, et al have the physical training for that - but also the emotional training not to get bored out of your gourd repeating the same dang thing over and over

 

[Madmarsha]

One important, but understated skill in screen acting, is muscle memory/remembering where/what you were doing
A scene is going to have multiple takes and the director/editor prefer if you repeat your actions as precisely as possible each time without losing expression or energy level
So dancers, gymnasts, et al have the physical training for that - but also the emotional training not to get bored out of your gourd repeating the same dang thing over and over

Is that the answer to the question I asked, though?

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

One important, but understated skill in screen acting, is muscle memory/remembering where/what you were doing
A scene is going to have multiple takes and the director/editor prefer if you repeat your actions as precisely as possible each time without losing expression or energy level
So dancers, gymnasts, et al have the physical training for that - but also the emotional training not to get bored out of your gourd repeating the same dang thing over and over

If they want you to do it exactly the same way, then why reshoot it?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

If they want you to do it exactly the same way, then why reshoot it?

fir a 2 person scene, you’ll have 3 basic setups: ‘coverage’ which captures both characters, then pov fir each character
But you’ll also have maybe 3-5 additional cameras capturing different frames
So you’re going to shoot any scene 3 times - coverage and 2 povs
Each of those shoots might have 3-5 takes for any number of reasons (forgot lines, extras did something weird, didn’t ‘quite’ get the acting right

So when that scene gets to editing, the editor has maybe 20-40 versions of the same thing
If both actors perform the same actions throughout, it makes it much easier to edit

 

[Eeyore]

TIL... That the most common cause of testicular damage in the U.S. is due to gun shot.

National analysis of testicular and scrotal trauma in the USA

To provide a descriptive analysis of scrotal and testicular trauma in the USA. Additionally, we hypothesized that motorcycle collision would have a higher association with scrotal or testicular trauma and subsequent scrotal or testicular operation, compared ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

TIL... That the most common cause of testicular damage in the U.S. is due to gun shot.

National analysis of testicular and scrotal trauma in the USA

To provide a descriptive analysis of scrotal and testicular trauma in the USA. Additionally, we hypothesized that motorcycle collision would have a higher association with scrotal or testicular trauma and subsequent scrotal or testicular operation, compared ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

That fits so well I’m not even sure it can be seen as ironic

 

[DaveXA]

That fits so well I’m not even sure it can be seen as ironic

I thought it would be a knee.

 

[Dago]

 

[GW93]

Pretty funny considering how the Nazis fell for this trick.

Ghost Army - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Sailorsaint]

That’s high level trolling right there.