#method actor

[bitter69uk]

“We are as caught up by James Dean as was the first generation, experiencing that tender, romantic, marvellously masochistic identification with the boy who does everything wrong because he cares so much. And because Dean died young and hard, he is not just another actor who outlived his myth and became ordinary in stale roles. He is the symbol of misunderstood youth.” Pauline Kael

“The acting of James Dean is more animal than human. For this reason, it is unpredictable: what will happen next?” Francois Truffaut, Cahier du Cinema

“Jimmy may have had crabs, but he also had durable charisma.” Kenneth Anger

Born on this day: happy 94th birthday to cinema’s quintessential doomed bongo drum-playing 1950s bad boy and personification of teenage angst, James Byron Dean (8 February 1931 – 30 September 1955) – one of the most lusciously photogenic actors of all time. Pictured: Dean during production of Giant (1955), his last film.

[sorrydetka]

innie mark could not care less about ms casey/gemma beyond saving her life and having empathy and it’s quite funny to see adam scott embody that ngl

[etherealbark]

Gonna scream out, there's no meaning

Spit my teeth out as you're bleeding

I gave you everything you needed

[mossgloam]

“old school glamour

can’t get much faster

messin’ around ‘til i shake with laughter

come place your dagger

but I mean it,

and i don’t feel it…”

[thebowerypresents]

Nilüfer Yanya Thrills Brooklyn Steel with New Music

Nilüfer Yanya – Brooklyn Steel – October 1, 2024

British artist Nilüfer Yanya took the Brooklyn Steel stage at 9:40 on Tuesday night. By 9:45, she had dabbled in at least four different genres: an ethereal sparkle of ambient evolved into an angular electronica, giving way to the funk of a plunky bass, an explosion of electric guitar rock and roll, Yanya then belting the indie-pop chorus, eventually joined by an energized blare of near-jazz saxophone. The song was “Method Actor,” a track off Yanya’s brand-new full-length of the same name, and it established the tone for a set that was stylistically restless while remaining coherently focused.   

Yanya expertly led her band through most of the new album plus some selections off her sophomore LP, 2022’s Painless. Almost every song contained layers of hidden complexity. “Like I Say (I Runaway)” with earworms eating earworms, clever springs of guitar and drums; “Ready for Sun (Touch)” feeling like multiple songs in one — lovely singer-songwriter in off-kilter tension with an almost glitch-pop, the stage bathed in an ominous anything-but-sunny yellow; “Trouble” unfolding overlapping rhythms of vocals, drums and electronics with an adhesive of low-end bass helping build to a dramatic orchestral swell. 

Yanya gave her strong supporting band a break on “Heavyweight Champion of the Year,” the room falling quiet and still for her sparse guitar-and-vocal, singing, “I’m tired / From all these dreams.” That set up a three-song chill-down middle with the R&B slow-burn “Call It Love” and the loveliness of “Binding.” Things closed out strong with two from Painless: The band almost sounding like Radiohead on “The Dealer” as Yanya aptly sang, “Patience, there she goes / Cadence set in stone,” setting up the final song, “Stabilise,” with fuzzy guitar, an addictive beat, dancehall bass and the method actor, Nilüfer Yanya, inhabiting each role perfectly. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

(Nilüfer Yanya plays Royale in Boston tonight.)

Photos courtesy of Savannah Lauren | @savannahlaurenphoto

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Nilüfer Yanya - Method Actor

From the album My Method Actor, out September 13th on Ninja Tune.

[and-fishing-equipment]

if amc knew ANYTHING about marketing they would put sam on rupaul's drag race as a guest judge in character

[parisoonic]

its not my fault i keep playing against Daniel Day-Lewis mfs

[bitter69uk]

“James Dean was a furious cry against the cloying, smug hypocrisy of a consumer society in the fifties. While we shall never know if he was capable of providing any answers, since he died so tragically young, it was enough that he voiced and portrayed the frustrations and discontent brewing in the American youth of his time. Their identification with him led to his instant and enormous success in three films – East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant – made in just over one year. His premature death in 1955 … was itself a tragic statement of his dissatisfaction and ensured his elevation to legendary status. So strong and clear was the message he expressed in his own time that today, along with Monroe and Presley, he still embodies the spirit of a society in search of its identity – a search unleashed in the sixties and never satisfactorily resolved.”

/ From Hollywood Colour Portraits by John Kobal (1981) /

“We cannot speak of cinema without mentioning the name of James Dean, the freshly plucked fleur du mal, James Dean, who is cinema, in the same sense as Lillian Gish, Chaplin, Ingrid Bergman, etc.” Francois Truffaut

Died on this day aged 24: cinema’s bongo drum-playing quintessential doomed 1950s bad boy, James Byron Dean (8 February 1931 - 30 September 1955) – one of the most lusciously photogenic actors of all time. Pictured: 1954 portrait of Dean by Roy Schatt. This whole session - frequently called the “Torn Sweater Series” - was taken for LIFE magazine but never used at the time. I think they’re the most beautiful shots of Dean ever captured.

[bodhrancomedy]

I also refuse to method act because I get a lot of abused and mentally unwell characters and I like being mentally stable :)

[sunnyrmrez]

[zephyr-ro-emenki]

Random Batfam Headcanon's #11:

Jason ends up running into old highschool classmates once he's back in Gotham as Red Hood, and they're happy he's back, but they're upset with him. Not for anything he did before he left, it was the fact that he was the Drama Clubs star actor of their next play (it was the Lightning Thief Musical) and he disappeared and died a week before opening night.

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Friend #1: "wait, Jason? Jason Todd??"

Jason: *confused Hood noises*

Friend #2: "that's him. JASON, YOU MONTIQUE FUCK, GET YOUR RAT ASS BACK HERE!!!"

Jason: "oh fuck..."

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Friend #1, seeing Jason's white streaked Lazarus pit hair: "My, what white bangs you have."

Jason: "what better to fit in with the fashion trends with."

Friend #2, seeing Jason's now green eyes: "My, what green eyes you have."

Jason: "what better to read from the script my dear."

Friend #1: "You son of a Bitch..."

Jason: "what now?"

Friend #1: "did you ditch us, ditch Gotham entirely, change your eye color, dye your bangs, and let your family think you were dead... Because you were method acting for your role as Percy Jackson in our fucking Musical?!?!"

Jason: "..."

Friend #2: "You motherfucker..."

Friend #1: "YOU FUCKING WOULD WOULDN'T YOU!!"

Jason, Panicking, because he did none of that: "...um, yes?"

Friend #1: "MOTHERFUCKER, YOU FUCKING LEGEND!!!"

Friend #2: "KING! KING! PLEASE TEACH ME YOUR COMMITMENT METHODS!!!"

[suppressednightowl]

[theblvcksupreme]

The fangs of Method Man