70% Of The Story Is In The Body - Jean-Louis Rodrigue

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Jean-Louis Rodrigue is an internationally recognized acting coach, movement director, and specialist in the application of the Alexander Technique to film, theater and television. In film, he coached actors and collaborated with directors in Passion Fish, Vice, J. Edgar, Life of Pi, W., I, Tonya, and many more. In theater, he collaborated with director Larry Moss and former NFL player Bo Eason in his play Runt of the Litter and playwright Pamela Gien in her Obie- and Drama Desk- award-winning one-person play, The Syringa Tree, both in New York and internationally. Jean-Louis has worked on- and off-Broadway and at major performing arts institutions such as Berlin International Film Festival, Cirque du Soleil, Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, Getty Villa, Geffen Playhouse, Royal National Theatre, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Verbier Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company. For the past 34 years, Jean-Louis has taught at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Jean-Louis lives in Los Angeles with his husband, Kristof Konrad.
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[@filmcourage]

What film or TV character exhibits the most compelling body language?

[@arfung9871]

Barney Stinson

[@freedone.]

Michael Keaton in Batman 1989

[@getstakerized]

Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad

[@successsystem2468]

Walter White Daniel Plainview

[@filipsan11]

Jim Carrey of course haha

[@freedone.]

This is why James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano transcended the show itself. He was so interesting to watch. He seemed like a real person, not a character. He was compelling. He could have read the ingredients on a box of cereal and you would be transfixed. It's mysterious and magical. Bogart had the same thing. All the great ones do.

[@Chropoles]

this is a very touchy subject.

[@arzabael]

His response to “what’s been most difficult as a teacher recently” hits me where I live. Very empathic sensitive man.

[@vedadalsette1453]

Heck, 70% is scoring. 😄Music tells us how to feel.

[@streetlifeindia]

This was very beautiful. Also very true....this made me think a lot in terms of physicality of a film. Thank you. Also about pacing and rhythm.

[@jessebbedwell]

All actors utilyze the same amount of body language. However, only a few of them are in such control of their craft that their body language is used in full support of the character they are playing.

[@walterroux291]

I suppose this follows the great rule of film, "Show, don't tell".

[@danielforlano]

So good to hear this. The most compelling theater acting training is full mask. Neutral mask frees the body, and grants access to the wisdom of the body, This sense must help a writer write for the physical world, too.

[@samlukowski3562]

Agreed - the hardest lesson for me to accept was that in 4th Wall Storytelling, Actors should have less to say and more to do in each Scene. Actions speak Louder than Words - and Behavior transends Language. 🎭

[@briansimerl4014]

This is adequately reflected in the price point of actors versus screenwriters.

[@danielcaliri2694]

Fascinating

[@aperson9556]

Explains silent films

[@MikeTooleK9S]

all of literature is just sort of a freakish interlude in a multimedia evolution. The only thing that makes literature special is that it’s the radical possibility for each, and every person who reads a literary manuscript to generate when they watch it a unique Hollywood picture in their head, in that Jungian onion, Hollywood is the king of dreaming, on the earth.

[@robertbradley8276]

Studied Alexander with me. Thats the Alexander Technique. It's not clear in this short.

[@filmcourage]

Thank you Robert, here is another clip from this interview where Jean-Louis explains the Alexander Technique - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGOYp6utbpuYZ8U

[@ChrisRubeo]

Oh, please.

[@gorkamorka999]

In face to face communication with real people those "scientifically proven facts" may apply. In a stage plays or movie production you are not communicating with people though, you are performing to them and the audience is just observing and suspending their disbelief. They know it's not real, they don't have to look for a deception. Camera direction on film or looking at a stage from across the room distorts that perception anyway. Body language is important obviously, but this is not transferable between a real world context between normal people and performers. Though I have no doubt that it fits very neatly into the self-image of the average actor to believe that this is true.

[@TheHorrordialogues]

Exactly!

[@getstakerized]

Those were actors in ape suits, not actual primates… I found that out today years old! ;)

[@wexwuthor1776]

The script counting for 10% of what's being communicated sounds ludicrous. In a movie that's any good you have to follow what's being said first and foremost.

[@fifthhoven]

"that's any good" might be key here and actually a difference. Because it seems rather that anything that's ordinary and not particularly good relies primarily on the words themselves for communication. There are also rules of what counts the most in a first impression and so on...

[@freeyourmind112358]

90% of communication is non verbal

[@WiLyO8]

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[@filipsan11]

A Therapist.

[@LightspeedTutorials]

Thats exactly why Oppenheimer was so boring. Too much of the movie was talking heads.