The Proposition Paper: Drawing the Bridge Between Show and Life’s Box of Chocolates

The Proposition Paper: Drawing the Bridge Between Show and Life’s Box of Chocolates

What is the relationship between “Method Acting” and living with a method?

Offering Additional support and confirming unsupported claims as such:

James Allen’s As Man Thinketh might be true, but I can offer evidence to show that it is with the scientific conclusions by Paul Ekman, and the highly applicable methodology devised from psychosomatic empirical observations by neurology teaming with the sources in David Kraner’s anthology Method Acting Reconsidered.

Applying a claim more widely:

Ekman correctly applies his research on human reaction to immediate events, but it can be applied to a grander scope of planning and even to the realm of the theatricals. Likewise, he claims that his research is true in the immediacy of behavior, but I can show it’s true in general and for future occasions.

Contradictions of kind:

Certain members of the theatrical community, expressed in Hare’s book, claim that the Method is a fraud, but it is not entirely. Similarly, many claims try to distinctively shape the system when all it accomplishes it is creating a branch.

Sources would argue against the validity of James Allen’s work, that it is a kind of fraud, but it is not.

Part-whole contradictions:

Most of these types of contradictions are in the definition of “Method Acting”, some say it is one way, others create another way, some are against the principle, others base schools on it.

Just because Ekman teamed with the Dalai Lama to interpret certain concepts, some say that the relationship invalidates his scientific standing, but it certainly doesn’t.

Developmental or historical contradictions:

Many people say the Method is not changing, although I am referring to the Method of Acting, this mode of conservatism can just as easily be applied to the Method of Religion, some say it is not changing, but it is, and it has been and will continue to be.

External cause-effect contradictions:

Ekman claims that appraisal of events causes only reactions, but it can also cause a new appraisal.

Contradictions of perspective:

The Bulk of the paper: Ekman discuses appraisals as being the base of reaction to events, but the new context of methodology from theatrical and behavior studies can modify appraisals and thus reactions to events before they occur. James Allen is back up by seeing his work from the perspective of Ekman in thought influencing state of being which is again seen from the point of view of those in David Hare’s anthology tackling Method Acting.

[1]  Paul Ekman, Emotions Revealed,  rev. ed (New York: Owl Books, 2007)

2 David Kraner, Method Acting Reconsidered, David Hare, ed. (St. Martin’s Press, New York, N.Y), 4.

3 James Allen, As Man Thinketh. America: Create Space, 2010.