What is Good Acting?

Good acting is me acting like I want to watch this

A guide of top performances based in movies I'VE WATCHED (only one by actor/actress):

MEN

1. Marlon Brando (The Godfather)
2. Al Pacino (Dog day afternoon)
3. Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)
4. Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of The Lambs)
5. Jack Nicholson (The shining)
6. Daniel Day Lewis (There will be blood)
7. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
8. Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
9. Orson Welles (Citizien Kane)
10. Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange)


WOMEN

1. Maria Falconetti (The passion of Joan of Arc)
2. Vivian Leigh (Gone with the wind)
3. Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
4. Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
5. Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)
5. Anna Karina (Vivre Sa Vie)
6. Jodie Foster (Silence of The Lambs)
8. Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
9. Fernanda Montenegro (Central of Brazil)
10. Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club)

Some of the best acting can be a twitch of the eyes, a shift of the shoulders. It can speak volumes.

THE REACTIONS IN SALTBURN !!!! You spend so much time trying to figure out how different characters feel about situations based on their reactions and it makes it so mysterious and captivating

you sold me

I love this video and I think about it a lot

Jared Leto is a great method actor, btw. His performance in Blade Runner 2049, acting as a blind visionary (by being actually blind) is unpaired.

The ad music makes me feel like Ethan Klein just said something insane

I'm mostly intrigued by voice actors personally, because I feel like having somebody create "a vessel" for their voice (that sounded kinda weird) makes it sooo much more authentic to me. Ella Purnell's performance of Jinx/Powder in Arcane was amazing (so were most of the Arcane cast). And I watch a lot of anime and even tho I don't speak Japanese fluently(yet), I can still feel and really enjoy the voice acting (srsly Erwin's suicide-charge speech is insanely well performed)

That being said sometimes live action acting is so good that that actor just is that character permanently in my eyes, even if the movie dropped 10 years ago.

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as a professional theater actress I could not for the life of me say what is bad acting or good acting; of course, TV and theatre are complety different, but it's all so subjective. I don't believe in method acting, just not something that works for me and it's been for some actors and directos just a excuse to treat people badly (Jared Leto and Stanley Kubrick) and for me, to say what is good or bad it's not enough, cuz it will be different to another fellow and so on and on.

In Tv u can get a facil acting perfect but in theater this would not be seen, so we tend to use alot more of our bodies to express feelings; the way we act could be seen as exaggerated for someone who's not used to it or is expecting hollywood type of acting.

I dunno, just rambeling on this cuz it's my cup of tea

can't believe I'm only noticing how he added a barely noticeable smoke effect when he said under the radar. That's proper attention to detail, reminds me of what Jay Foreman does.

Daniel Day Lewis is an example of how you can get away with method acting but only if you pull off a phenomenal performance. Dude never misses but is known for staying in character 25/8 lol

Lele Pons popping outta nowhere was like a brick to the face thrown from 2016

I loved Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried in The Crowded Room.
by the way is there a concept of overacting as Anthony Hopkins in "The remains of the days" or Meryl Streep in many movies?!

No way Kieran culkin and Michael cera in the same drew video, must be a Scott pilgrim reference

don't forget John Lithgow when talking about method actors, He is very speciul.

I would do so much just for Drew to do a sequel to this video about voice acting. Talking about the importance of it and how talented some people are and the RANGE some voice actors have! And also about shitty examples and talking about how dumb it is to cast celebrities in animated stuff when they can't voice act just because they're famous. Drew please. I am manifesting you deciding to sort through new comments on random videos...

3 more great acting i have seen is Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman in the film Prisoners they have some really emotional and just insane acting scenes. And the last great acting moment i saw is in Openheimer when they realise have powerful the actomic bomb they built is and what they have unleashed on the world. If you guys disagree please tell me

don't get me wrong, my whole philosophy of communication and attention management is based on reactions. But sometimes capturing the starkness of the non-reaction is the most powerful shot and that is mostly down to casting (someone who turns out to naturally look the way that the character is meant to look when they aren't reacting) and/or editing (even the most wooden, or by contrast over-acting actors can be captured while they're 'not reacting'). The most powerful 'not reacting part' is Claire Foy as the queen in the first two series of the Crown. The whole idea is that she had to conceal her feelings, especially when circumstances forced her to break promises and demonstrate her iron will and unflinching expressionlessness when confronted with the need to let people down gain and again, simply 'for the sake of preserving the (Royal) family' by maintaining a commitment to keeping themselves at one remove from anything that looked like 'intervention' or 'involvement'.

The lighthouse was amazing

ok but drew making a bojack referance has made me agresvly stim for at least an hour freaking out

imo best actor for antagonists is mads mikkelsen, hes just so good making his characters evil and gay

I invested two years of my life in the best acting university in my country and have finally decided to quit. The passion and love I had for this profession and the wish I had, which was to move people and make them feel inspired has all been killed in me. I feel, I will never be able to have the confidence to believe in myself while acting ever again.

for me is oscar isaac, hes incredible hes absolutely amazing. with his words, the facial expressions he does which are subtle and its just perfect

Leonardo DiCaprio drives me crazy!!! his acting is ALWAYS screaming!, yes, he's very good at it, but that's all he does!!! I hate screming like that. I was a bit afraid in A marriage story when Adam went off (I saw the scene first, then the whole movie) but Ill admit in that scene? it was fitting.

My fave subtle acting i actually from benedict Cumberbatch in Tinker Tailor Soilder Spy, just..spoilers XD

where he breaks off with his partner so they don't find out he's gay...he is just silently crying, it is always so heartbreaking

here after waching succesion and breaking bad for only this video

Can psychopaths be actors? Like, acting is lying and looking real

I'd like to give Jared Harris' performance in the Sherlock Holmes 2 movie, specifically when Holmes was telling Moriarty how the latter's crime empire has been completely dismantled by the former. The subtle twitches and his small movements really sold that silent murderous rage building up inside him culminating in an eerily calm smile and sort of casual tone he gives Holmes as they conclude their conversation.

Good acting is imo Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting. Everything he says feels so real imo. And I'm also saying this because I kinda miss his acting and roles lol

That guy at the gas station in no country for old men

I love analysis videos, and I love when I click on one of them without realising that it's a Drew Gooden video. Truly, it makes it more interesting somehow. I always expect GOOD analysis vids to be from random, niche movie nerds, but I like it better when I recognise the niche movie nerd.

Ayyy, spotted In A Million Years by Last Dinosaurs in the back.
good stuff.
Personally i'm not really into movies, not at all in fact, but there's nothing else to watch and yt keeps bombarding me with acting videos, sooo.. here i am.
But yeah, good music. Got to know their music through Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012's soundtrack (Which is brilliant)

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is there anyone that has IMDb pro (and a good heart) that can say to me Michelle’s Calderon email 😞

…I don’t feel that anger and tears are the epitome of good acting

Jack Nicholson os garbage

Good acting when you are on a Stanley Kubrick film is convincing anyone after their first day on set that you want to be there and that Kubrick is not a complete cunt who sullies the good name of directors. After leaving the author whose story he defiled and his leading actor to defend his work whilst he hid in a hole like a coward, I am genuinely surprised the asshole was not blacklisted. I know a lot of people who had any connection with Jack Nicholson made a note in their contacts to tell Kubrick to fukk off.

It’s reading what the writer wrote, then taking all the credit.

Steve Carell in the office encompasses so much to me, incredible talent

You like Hail the Sun?!

Good acting is literally every scene heath ledger was in in dark knight. Rip

Breaking Bad is an overrated show with shitty acting. Better Call Saul is a much better one.

Had to stop 3 minutes in because the description of succession sounded so interesting that now I got to go watch it

Wow, great video. Not pretentious at all but still informative and clear. All takes reasonable. Keep it up

Haiden Christianson was pretty good. The not just the women but the children line was great

Reacting.

i thimk part of the reason Betsy Brandt's acting feels so real is because she is a fan of her character. Literally, she went out on a rant about Maries flaws and what they make of her on multiple interviews. She has a deep understanding of a character

the bojack horseman of whatever is something i need to call more people