acting problemo???

Question

Ok, so i want to practice my acting at home! does anyone know any monologues from films i can practice, make it from the following as i have seen them:
House of wax
Pirates of the carribean
Harry Potter
Spider man
ANY MARVEL FILM!!!
Moulin Rouge
Mean Girls
HSM!
Any others would be helpful!

Answer 1

Hi Emily

Great to see you want to try your hand at acting. I am a professional actor and have been in the business for over 20 years now. As one person above said. Learning a monologue from a film is probably not the way to go but rather instead to lean more towards a piece from theatre etc.

I will shortly be filming a selection of monologues from Shakespeare which will also be aimed toward audition technique.

Hope this helps and best of luck

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Answer 2

If you're serious about acting, then choose a monologue from a work of real theater like a good play, not from a popular hollywood movie where writing is second to style and special effects.

Get some plays out of the library. Read them. Pick a monologue from someone who you identify with and memorize it.

On the other hand, if you're NOT serious about acting and just messing around with it and you don't really CARE about honing your acting skills, pick any of the films you mentioned, rent them and memorize a monologue.

Answer 3

If you're doing work from films you've seen more than likely you are doing a low rent imitation of the actors who did them first. That's not what acting is all about. Do some from plays that you've never seen before.

Answer 4

You can find monologues from most movies at:
http://www.whysanity.net/monos/

It has a search feature too. Just search for the name of the movie and it'll show you links to all the monologues it has gathered from the movie.

All the best