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"Acting As Split-Identification": A Brief Essay.

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Posted by AudioHead on August 29, 2000 at 15:17:32

Let me preface this essay by saying it's mostly intuitive as I don't
know a lot about acting in the scholarly sense, I'd like feedback from
those of you in FilmLand with more reading on the subject.

"ACTING AS SPLIT-IDENTIFICATION"

Jack Nicholson once said that when he's playing a character he's
75% the character and 25% himself. This involves the ability to
disassociate oneself, to split ones personality. The actors sense
of reality changes as he or she identifies with fictional character
traits. The percentage ratio of the fictional personality to the
real one varies from actor to actor according to this ability of split
identification,as some have it in greater measure than others. The key is for the receded real personality to be able to maintain adequate
control in spite of having relatively reduced "cerebral working space"
in the game of simultaneous playing and not playing. Failure to maintain adequate control results either in overidentification with the character(overacting), being perceived by the viewer as exaggerated; or conversely, in underidentification with the character,
(underacting), being perceived by the viewer as stiff and lacking in
depth.
Only highly competent actors can give up so much of themselves and still deliver solid, natural performances.

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