2017 – Acting for Film

Character Development (2)

Title: Mother?

Backstory: A woman ran away from her family with another man, desperately trying to find that idealistic marriage that she has always dreamt of having. She left her parents-in-law that were overwhelmingly uptight, her husband who couldn’t satisfy her needs and her daughter that had just started school. 10 months in, she received news that her daughter had caught an infection and she was not recovering despite being hospitalised for almost two weeks. She found the courage to go to the hospital that her daughter was in only to come face to face with her ex-husband.

Props: A set up with a wall and a door that has a number plate. A clipboard

Outfit: Casual colours with muted colours.

Rachel: Ridden with guilt, sensitive but has strong motherly instincts (ironically). Rather timid and soft spoken

Nathan: Very intimidating, holds a grudge against Rachel. Very sarcastic and slightly capricious.

Script: MOTHER

Character Development

My character is a woman who ran away her marriage, leaving her daughter with the father. There are a few reasons as to why she did what she did: her expectations of her married life were not meant and she wanted something more. Also, there’s also a rift between her and her parents-in-law. Thus, to seek respite, she seeks the comfort of another man.

A year later, she received news that her child is severely sick. The conflict arose when she returned to the area, tried to find her child in the hospital. Once she found the room, however, the father was the one who opened the door. Despite her cries, the father did not allow her to see the child and she gets berated and humiliated but she didn’t particularly go hard against the father because ultimately, she was rendered by guilt.

The scene ends with the father slamming the door on her face and she walked away, rejected.

Inspiration

I personally don’t particularly immersed in the acting of people because so long as it is not distracting and straying from the storyline, I wouldn’t really pay attention to it.

However, I do know an actor whom completely made me so floored with his acting. Marlon Brando is known to many as somebody who particularly changed the acting scene. I’ve only saw him in one production for my school’s homework and it was A Streetcar Named Desire. Marlon Brando was not only immersed in his acting but he brought Stanley into life. The Stanley he played was charming, handsome but utterly rude and disgusting as a man and also as a human being. It was wonderlful.

Marlon Brando as Stanley