Cast Of American Beauty

The three terms/concepts are: casting, ensemble acting, and method acting. The cast of American Beauty won a Screen Actors Guild Award for an Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture in the year 2000, the ensemble acting includes the method acting that the film encompasses, by the group of actors cast to the characters roles, which includes: Annette Bening, Wes Bentley, Thora Birch, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Kevin Spacey, and Mena Suvari. Amidst the struggle of this dysfunctional family’s pursuit of happiness, their perception of the American dream and life beauty deceitfully outplays the reality within the family life of Lester Burnham, who is one the lead cast characters portrayed by Kevin Spacey, in the film American Beauty. Lester assesses his life, success, and happiness that he is attempting to find during his possible mid-life crisis. For example, in the scene where he tells his wife, Carolyn, at the dinner table that he has quit his job, made $60,000, and to pass the asparagus, he rebels against the lack-of-control within his own life. The casting and film has some similarities to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in which there is a reference in the scene, by Annette Benning, who plays Carolyn Burnham, who states that the Lohman’s, who lived …show more content…
Director Sam Mendes cultivates American Beauty, and nourishes the film with a multi-talented cast of actors that create a dynamic ensemble casting which consists of some Oscar-winning actors who portray unique characters in their individual method acting styles. Consequently, the film American Beauty produces 120 wins and 82 award nominations of numerous and colorful varieties, and screenwriter Alan Ball, successfully blooms and grows into further writing success after the film, American