Craft Of Acting And Sweet Smell Of Success

Craft of Acting and Sweet Smell of Success
The ability for an actor to successfully, skillfully enrapture the audience’s attention to the scene and overall production is not simply one skill but rather various dynamics that are pieced together for the creation of his character. Similar to a handy man, an actor utilizes his or her set of tools of the craft of Acting to accomplish the ultimate goal of the character. In the Sweet Smell of Success, Tony Curtis, who portrays Sidney Falco, utilizes his tools of presentational acting, obstacles, objective, given circumstances, environmental condition, and actions to successfully embody his character.
In one of the earlier lectures, two types of acting methods were discussed: representational acting versus presentational acting. Representational acting occurred mostly in the early beginnings where the actor would show the audience what an emotion, action, or thought may …show more content…
However, as the time progressed, as did the type of acting, there was presentational acting which personalized the emotional, action, or thought. The usage of presentational acting can create a better relationship between the character and the audience in a more relatable way. For example, the actor through this method can embody an emotion that resonates to the audience watching the actor instead of just showing the audience how an emotion may look like. Hypothetically, if the emotion was sadness, then it is potentially the difference between feeling the sadness with the character and simply seeing visible signs of the emotion sadness. In the Sweet Smell of Success, there is a scene in which Sidney is in the taxi with Susie to accompany her home. The audience witnesses some mannerisms that reveal more about his character in that particular scene. In that scene, he plays with