{"id":292924,"date":"2021-07-07T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-going-big-can-make-a-scene-better\/"},"modified":"2021-07-07T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:16:34","slug":"how-going-big-can-make-a-scene-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-going-big-can-make-a-scene-better\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Going Big Can Make a Scene Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28c0e87bb4c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28c0e87bb4c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-going-big-can-make-a-scene-better\/#Watch_%E2%80%9CHow_Overacting_Enhances_a_Scene%E2%80%9D\" >Watch \u201cHow Overacting Enhances a Scene\u201d:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-going-big-can-make-a-scene-better\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-going-big-can-make-a-scene-better\/#More_videos_like_this\" >More videos like this<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#How Going Big Can Make a Scene Better<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Welcome to The Queue \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay on how overacting can enhance a scene.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Previously in this column, we\u2019ve discussed how the primary mode of communication in <strong><em>Mandy <\/em><\/strong>is sound. Paired with its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>py, enveloping visuals, the experience of watching <strong>Panos Cosmatos<\/strong>\u2018 2018 revenge film is kinetic, primal, and damn near post-verbal. Propelled by expressive music and larger-than-life performances, it\u2019s like an inversion of a silent film. And speaking of silent films, let\u2019s talk about<strong> Nicolas Cage\u2019<\/strong>s acting for a second.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>Mandy,\u00a0<\/em>Cage plays Red Miller, a logger whose idyllic life is ripped out from under him when his partner is burned alive by a scorned cult leader. Before this inciting incident, Red is gentle, loving, and subdued, with a calm and peaceful demeanor that we don\u2019t exactly expect from Cage and all his Nouveau Shamanic bombast. But Cosmatos is no dummy. And once the story calls for it, Cage unleashes his teeth-gnashing, wild-eyed powers in a way that feels fully deserved and all the more powerful for it.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Cage\u2019s overacting has a tendency to eclipse and distract in lesser films. But here, pointed in the right direction, it deepens <em>Mandy<\/em>\u2018s story, careening Red\u2019s journey into surreal, unhinged, and expressionistic territory. Cage\u2019s performance in <em>Mandy <\/em>is hard proof that overacting can actually enhance a movie, and push the limits of what acceptable film-acting can look like. Cage\u2019s Red is just one example of many.<\/p>\n<p>And as the video essay below argues, the key to \u201cgood\u201d overacting may actually stem from a place of honesty. The key is not \u201cgoing big for big\u2019s sake.\u201d It\u2019s going big and letting go because it makes sense in context and in character. Bluntly put, per Chris Michael of <em>The Guardian<\/em>: \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2013\/oct\/11\/why-i-love-overacting\">overacting is believing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Watch_%E2%80%9CHow_Overacting_Enhances_a_Scene%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Watch \u201cHow Overacting Enhances a Scene\u201d:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Overacting Enhances a Scene\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lDmvl-LRbQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"block-19294f9d-99fc-4cee-8ca7-135f7eaf7b45\">This video on the art of overacting is by <strong>Karsten Runquist<\/strong>, a Chicago-based video essayist. 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