What's worth a bigger laugh -- snooty British actors reciting lines from "Jersey Shore, " or the Dramatic Chipmunk?
It was The Workplace Tempest and the actors had their lines down cold.
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Director Gore Verbinksi (who also did the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films) recorded the stars acting out their parts together in a studio instead of having the actors read their lines separately.
Additionally, many actors find that remembering lines is much easier when tied to the stage action, or blocking.
So Mr. Stoppard hung around during four months of shooting, smoking cigarettes and occasionally supplying extra lines or correcting the actors on their delivery.
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It's a staggering aesthetic and intellectual cat's-cradle of lines that connect the various actors in this artistic drama across a span that moves from Russia across various European capitals to the U.S., while also describing the intensity of their networks.
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The filmmakers got a waiver from the Screen Actors Guild to allow the SEALs to deliver lines.
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Just like one of the actors, you know, would say their lines, I want you to sing it, you know, live.
The actors, particularly Pine, read their short lines slowly, like people who live in fear of being misheard, but nothing they do improves communication.
In the three movies, the acting is so natural and persuasive that many fans think that the lines between the characters and the actors blur or that the dialogue is improvised.
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And it must be stated that most of the best lines and showiest moments go to white actors.
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Latifah purposely over-enunciated her lines, and when a pair of rehearsal actors claimed an Oscar onstage and gave an acceptance speech, Zeta-Jones started to play them off with an imaginary violin.
Actors on whom the animated characters are based rehearse their lines over and over again with dozens of reflective dots stuck over their faces and bodies, while hundreds of infrared cameras record their every twitch.
White poses his monomaniacs front and center with a lot of space around them and lets the actors (including Laura Dern and Peter Sarsgaard) speak their semi-satirical lines without interruption.
All story lines circle back to a high-end spa, where comic actors Will Arnett and Jason Bateman improvise odd-couple commentary on the meaning of it all while treating themselves to pedicures, mud masks and other self-maintenance techniques.
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Each practiced their lines in front of an audience of show workers and awarded prop Oscars to rehearsal actors.
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