I'll Be In My Trailer!

The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors

By: Craig Modderno

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Paperback | 9 August 2006

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Directing actors is the hardest thing faced by both beginning and experienced directors. Filmmaking hardware like cameras, lenses, and editing machines do what they are told. Actors have minds of their own, often making directors lives miserable. Here is an inspired and insightful must-read for directors at all levels of their craft, which is based on the extensive experiences of veteran Director John Badham, as well as no-holds-barred, out-of-school tales from such celebrated directors and actors as Sydney Pollock, Michael Mann, John Frankenheimer, Mel Gibson, James Woods, Jenna Elfman, and many more. Beneath the entertaining and instructive war stories lies the truth: how directors elicit the best performances from difficult and terrified actors. You'll learn how to use proven techniques to help actors give their best performances, including the ten best and ten worst things to say and what you can do when an actor wont or cant do what the director wants. Its all here, put into print by a renowned director with stories to tell and lessons to impart.

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"This is the closest thing to having a microchip with all of John Badham's memories and experience installed in your brain. The amount of necessary understanding about the art of filmmaking and dealing with actors in this book will save you a lifetime of grief at any budget level!" - www.microfilmmaker.com Badhams profound love of actors and working with them radiates through the book on almost every page. I dont know if Ive ever had reason to mention this to the author, but Ive often referred to him as the only director who ever helped me as an actor. Dr. Robert Cohen, Professor of Theatre, University of California, Irvine I particularly appreciated the candor of the participants, and especially Badhams willingness to use his own experience as grist for the mill. I think this book will be a valuable resource for any director, from neophyte to very experienced, who wants to think hard about and get better at his/her craft. James Bundy, Dean of the Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre One of the many things Badham does right is grab so many other voices and viewpoints of talented pros. The historical worth of this read is enough to make me happy in and of itself. James Grady, Author, Six Days of the Condor, White Flame, River of Darkness

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiv
Contributors	p. xxi
No Day at the Beach	p. 1
How to Hide
The Moral of This Tale Is?
Novice Director Meets Richard Pryor
Career in the Dumper
Summary
Dos & Don'ts	p. 15
Universal Peeves
Summary
Comfort or Constipate	p. 32
The Magic, Please
Summary
Are Actors Nuts?	p. 37
If It Looks So Easy, You Try It
Craziness Clarified
Just a Bunch of Children?
"Never Act with Dogs or Kids"
Crybabies Too?
Actors Are Different Than You and Me
Summary
A Lazy Way to Success - Casting	p. 57
Stupid Casting Trick #1
Stupid Director Trick #2
Stupid Casting Trick #3
Cut to the Audition
Free Rehearsal
Cast at Last
Videotape - Blessing and Curse
Professionals vs. Amateurs
Trainwreck #5: Cast the Producer's Girlfriend
Summary
Rehearsal - Panacea or Pain	p. 76
Bunch 1 - Must Have It
Bunch 2 - Who Needs It?
Rehearsals Are for Wimps?
Train for Spontaneity
There's No Time to Rehearse
Organic Valium
Summary
Rehearsal - Day One	p. 91
First Readthrough
That Means No Rehearsal... Right?
Never Invite Guests to the First Reading
When Do You Direct?
Improvisation
Staging During Rehearsal
How Much Rehearsal?
After Rehearsal
Summary
Killing Acting	p. 107
The Shifting Sand of Objectives
Non-Actable Directions
Active Action Verbs
Rehearsing Emotional Scenes
This'll Shut'em Up
Napoleon's One-Minute Manager
Phantom Kibitzers
Summary
On the Day	p. 122
What's the First Shot?
Six-Hundred-Pound Gorillas
Forget Them, What About Me
It's About Respect
Summary
Actors Are Not Apples	p. 136
Get a Stuntman
Who Made You God of Ideas?
Summary
What Am I Doing?	p. 144
Result Directing
Tricky, Tricky
Skip the Bullshit, What Do You Want?
Off the Wall
RX for Stage Actors
Film Actors Can't Throw Stones
Summary
911 Directing	p. 163
Obvious Possibilities
The Dog Ate My Dialogue
This Scene Is Stupid
Can't Play It Truthfully
What Is the Real Emotion
Fear of Failure
They Are Not There
I'm Not Saying This
I'm Not Doing This
Paper Baggers
What If They're Really Crazed?
Playing the Lottery
Scene Stealers & Bad Boys
Meltdown in Malibu
Drinks, Drugs & SOBs
Live a Little
Outside or Inside
Summary
VideoVillage Idiots	p. 196
Ohmigod, They Want to Come to Dailies!
Summary
Wait, You're Not Done	p. 201
Invading the Editing Suite
Summary
Picture Credits	p. 209
Index	p. 212
About the Authors	p. 218
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