There is a story about Dustin Hoffman and the great actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who may or may not be true, but that’s what I heard: Hoffman is an actor very young when he filmed Marathon Man with Olivier. Hoffman A day has come together at the studio looking very bad … tired, dirty, obviously worn down. When Sir Oliver asked him what happened to cause this since Hoffman has revealed that he played a scene where his character was supposed to be in a similar state, he “prepared” by living for a few days without sleeping, eating very little and running a lot to exhaust himself for the game.
Sir Laurence replied? “Have you ever tried just acting, my dear?”
Olivier was known for being a great “actor” who were not emotionally involved with his characters or their situations. Acting was more technical expertise for him, and he became one of our greatest actors using this method.
Hoffman, the other was (is) a “method” actor who believes he has “reach inside” himself to find his character’s anger, joy, sadness, enthusiasm, etc and really feel what the character is supposed to feel. It connects to real experiences, he had to do.
Singers like these two actors can bring a song to life by:
1. hone their skills at singing so much that people believe they are “feeling” of the song (Laurence Olivier) or …
2. summoned the emotions of their own experiences. (Dustin Hoffman – “method” acting.)
Which is better?
(Ding, time up) In fact, the best singers use a little of both. Technology alone will not make a song, no emotion. The study of great singers and hours of practice, or even years to perfect their technical skills (quality, vibrato, riffs, the extension of high-end, etc.) and it pays a lot of time. Many songs require technical skills to make them effective. But these same songs that the singer calls provide honest emotions, usually from feelings and personal experiences.
There is very little known singers that are known especially for their great emotions with a lack of technical skills or simply for his incredible technical skills without emotion coming through. Do not fool yourself, thinking you can get by with only one or the other. It will not happen.
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