So it's not a "what does this line actually mean/ah, yes, it refers to X" moment, but an "I know what this line means, but I need to believe it (or at least convey to the audience that I believe it) - the Magical If is what makes me believe (it enough to convey) it".
Exactly! An awful lot of Stanislavsky's techniques are really just (just!) ways of stimulating the imagination so that the situation becomes real and concrete instead of staying generic and superficial.
It's suprising how little the meaning of a line (in the semantic sense of "meaning")has to do with how it gets said. This is partly because, as in real life, what you say is not necessarily what you mean, but also because there's no need for the actor to act the meaning - the line conveys that information itself anyway.
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Date: 2011-05-04 05:29 pm (UTC)Exactly! An awful lot of Stanislavsky's techniques are really just (just!) ways of stimulating the imagination so that the situation becomes real and concrete instead of staying generic and superficial.
It's suprising how little the meaning of a line (in the semantic sense of "meaning")has to do with how it gets said. This is partly because, as in real life, what you say is not necessarily what you mean, but also because there's no need for the actor to act the meaning - the line conveys that information itself anyway.